Scolopendra mirabilis (Porat, 1876)

Dyachkov, Yurii V., Ali Al-Yacoub, Ghassan A. & Mohammed Al-Khazali, Azhar M., 2023, A preliminary annotated checklist of Chilopoda from Iraq, Ecologica Montenegrina 63, pp. 59-78 : 69-70

Scolopendra mirabilis (Porat, 1876)

Type locality: “ Sudan, White Nile in Kordofan ” ( Bonato et al. 2016) .

Trachycormocephalus mirabilis – Brolemann 1922: 57; Chamberlin 1944: 182; Dobroruka 1976: 259; Lewis 1986a: 1086; 1996: 41; 2001: 153; Simaiakis & Edgecombe 2013: 191; Zarei et al. 2020: 143; Al-Simary et al. 2022: 1570. Scolopendra (Trachycormocephalus) mirabilis – Negrea 1997: 287.

Trachycormocephalus occidentalis iraquensis Turk 1951: 39

Trachycormocephalus occidentalis iraquensis – Lewis 2001: 153.

Scolopendra morsitans – Chamberlin 1958: 18; Lewis 2001: 153.

Scolopendra afer – Al-Doori et al. 2020: 598.

Scolopendra amazonica – Al-Doori et al. 2020: 598.

Material. 1 ad. ( ZMMU Rc 7994), Iraq, DO, Chiaye-Dairy Mt. Range , northern slope, Rogarm River Valley, left side, 17 km SE from 17 km E from Zakho city, N37°02'59", E42°52'05", stony maquis shrubland, 560–600 m, 28.IV.2017, coll. AF ; 3 ♂♂, 2 ♀♀ (UTQ), TQ, Al- Nasiriya City , Alzuhairiah village, N31°10'37", E46°19'53", in the soil of old mud houses, 15.XII.2021, coll. AY ; 1 ♂, 1 ♀ (UTQ), The road leading to camp Iraqi Drilling Company, N31°20'10", E45°55'30", in the soil of small hills, 17.III.2022, coll. AY .

Previous records. Maysan: [MA1] ( Brolemann 1922), Baghdad: [BA1], Thi-Qar: [ TQ 1] ( Chamberlin 1944; Dobroruka 1976), Dohuk: [DO3] ( Lewis 1986a), Al-Anbar: [ AN 4] (as Trachycormocephalus occidentalis iraquensis ; Turk 1951; Lewis 2001), Sulaymaniyah: [ SU 1], [ SU 3], Basrah: [ BS 1], [ BS 2], [ BS 3], [ BS 4], [ BS 5], [ BS 6], [ BS 7], [ BS 8] ( Lewis 2001; Al-Simary et al. 2022), Al-Qadisiyah: [ QA 2] (as S. afer ; Al-Doori et al. 2020), [ QA 3] (as S. amazonica ; Al-Doori et al. 2020), and Erbil: [ER3], [ER4] (as S. morsitans ; Chamberlin 1958; Lewis 2001) provinces.

Distribution. From East Tropical Africa through south Middle Asia and Afghanistan to India and Vietnam ( Negrea 1997; Lewis 2010; Simaiakis & Edgecombe 2013; Dyachkov 2020c, 2022a, 2022b).

Remarks. According to Lewis (2001), some specimens identified by Chamberlin (1958) as S. morsitans belong to S. mirabilis .

According to the description and illustrations provided by Al-Doori et al. (2020), specimens identified as S. afer and S. amazonica belong to S. mirabilis .