@article {1905, title = {A key and annotated list of the Scolopendra species of the Old World with a reappraisal of Arthrorhabdus (Chilopoda: Scolopendromorpha: Scolopendridae)}, journal = {International Journal of Myriapodology}, volume = {3}, year = {2010}, pages = {83-122}, type = {Research Article}, abstract = {

In order to avoid any confusion with species of Scolopendra, the genus Arthrorhabdus is reviewed. For the Old World species at least, the length of the coxosternal tooth plates is the most useful distinguishing feature. Arthrorhabdus somalus Manfredi, 1933 is transferred to Scolopendra becoming S. somala (Manfredi, 1933). A. jonesii Verhoeff , 1938 is removed from that genus as a species of uncertain status. A key to the species of Arthrorhabdus is provided. A diagnosis of Scolopendra and key to the 42 species and 7 subspecies of the Old World are provided together with an annotated list of species. Scolopendra gastroforeata Muralewi{\v c}, 1913 is a junior subjective synonym of S. s. subspinipes Leach, 1815 and Scolopendra nuda (Jangi \& Dass, 1980) is a junior subjective synonym of S. mirabilis (Porat, 1876). Scolopendra teretipes (Porat, 1893) is removed from synonymy under S. mirabilis (Porat, 1876) and returned to full specific status. It is suggested that S. attemsi Lewis, Minelli \& Shelley, 2006, and S. jangii Khanna \& Yadav 1997, may be specimens of S. morsitans L., 1758, and S. andhrensis Jangi \& Dass, 1984 may be S. s. subspinipes. Scolopendra subspinipes punensis Jangi \& Dass, 1984 may be an immature S. s. dehaani Brandt, 1840. The presence of S. gigantea L., 1758 in India is considered improbable. Several Scolopendra species are very similar and require further investigation; thus male S. canidens Newport, 1844 and S. cretica Attems, 1902 are indistinguishable. Scolopendra arenicola (Lawrence, 1975) and S. monticola (Lawrence, 1975) may be conspecific, S. pinguis Pocock, 1891 and S. gracillima Attems, 1898 are also very similar. The relationship between S. cingulata Latreille, 1829 and S. subspinipes cingulatoides Attems, 1938 should be examined as should S. valida balfouri Pocock, 1896 currently synonymised under S. valida. Scolopendra langi (Attems, 1928) exhibits some unusual characters and should be reassessed. Scolopendra madagascariensis Attems, 1910 is known only from a single inadequately described specimen. Also discussed is S. amazonica B\ücherl, 1946 currently regarded as a junior synonym of S. morsitans, as are the characters separating S. morsitans and S. laeta Haase, 1887. Non Australian records of S. laeta may be disregarded.

Recommended citation: Lewis, J. G. E. (2010): A key and annotated list of the Scolopendra species of the Old World with a reappraisal of Arthrorhabdus (Chilopoda: Scolopendromorpha: Scolopendridae). International Journal of Myriapodology, 3 (1): 83-122. https://doi.org/10.1163/187525410X12578602960380

}, keywords = {Arthrorhabdus, Chilopoda, keys, Scolopendra, Scolopendridae, Scolopendromorpha, Taxonomy}, issn = {1875-2535, 1875-2543}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1163/187525410X12578602960380}, url = {https://brill.com/view/journals/ijm/3/1/article-p83.xml}, author = {Lewis, John G.E.} } @article {1402, title = {Primer registro del ciempi{\'e}s Rhysida longipes (Newport, 1845) (Scolopendromorpha: Scolopendridae) en Cuba}, journal = {Revista Cubana de Ciencias Biol{\'o}gicas}, volume = {4}, year = {2016}, month = {01/2016}, pages = {87-91}, abstract = {

Resumen: Se presenta el primer registro conocido para Cuba del ciempi\és escolopendromorfo Rhysida longipes (Newport, 1845). Los espec\ímenes se recolectaron en el municipio de Marianao en la Ciudad de La Habana. Los ejemplares son probablemente de origen Neotropical pero, en teor\ía, podr\ían haber llegado desde cualquier lugar dentro de su \área de distribuci\ón tropical, la cual comprende Asia, \África y Am\érica.

First record of the centipede Rhysida longipes (Newport, 1845) (Scolopendromorpha: Scolopendridae) from Cuba

Abstract: The first known record from Cuba of the scolopendromorph centipede Rhysida longipes (Newport, 1845) is reported. The specimens were collected in Marianao municipality, Havana City. The exemplars are probably Neotropical in origin, but theoretically, they could have come from anywhere within the species\&$\#$39; tropical range, which encompasses Asia, Africa and America.

Bibliographic remark: Article PDF misprinted as \"VOL. 4 \• N.o 23\". It is \"VOL. 4 \• N.o 3\".

}, keywords = {Chilopoda, distribuci{\'o}n, distribution, Habana, Havana, Myriapoda, Taxonom{\'\i}a, Taxonomy}, issn = {2307-695X}, url = {http://www.rccb.uh.cu/index.php/RCCB/article/view/122}, author = {Cupul-Maga{\~n}a, Fabio Germ{\'a}n} } @article {1359, title = {Cormocephalus (Cormocephalus) guildingii Newport, 1845 (Chilopoda: Scolopendromorpha): a composite description, new samples from Western Mexico and a new species subgroup of Neotropical Cormocephalus (Cormocephalus)}, journal = {Zootaxa}, volume = {5071}, year = {2021}, month = {24/11/2021}, pages = {301-325}, abstract = {

Cormocephalus (C.) guildingii Newport, 1845\—one of the oldest names in this genus\—is described in detail for the first time, based on material from Western Mexico, Jamaica and the Dominican Republic; the range of this species is much expanded. Synonymy of C. impressus Porat, 1876 under C. guildingii is analyzed and confirmed. Relations between the latter and both C. ungulatus (Meinert, 1886) and C. andinus (Kraepelin, 1903) are analysed in detail. Both C. mundus Chamberlin, 1955 and C. (Cupipes) tingonus Chamberlin, 1957 are junior synonyms of C. ungulatus (Meinert, 1886). Cormocephalus mediosulcatus Attems, 1928 is suggested to be transferred to the genus Scolopendropsis as S. thayeri (Meinert, 1886) syn. nov. A new subclade (designated as the \“guildingii-subgroup\”) is established within the Neotropical clade of the genus Cormocephalus. It includes most Neotropical representatives of the gervaisianus species-group (sensu Schileyko \& Stagl 2004) united by nine diagnostic synapomorphies. Relations within the new subclade are analysed and its diagnosis is given.

}, keywords = {C. andinus, C. guildingii, C. ungulatus, Cormocephalus (C.), guildingii-subgroup, Neotropics, new subclade, Taxonomy}, issn = {1175-5326}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5071.3.1}, url = {https://mapress.com/zt/article/view/zootaxa.5071.3.1}, author = {Schileyko, Arkadi A. and Cupul-Maga{\~n}a, Fabio G.} } @article {1230, title = {An annotated type catalogue of the centipedes (Myriapoda: Chilopoda)~held in the Zoological Museum Hamburg}, journal = {Zootaxa}, volume = {4977}, year = {2021}, month = {27/05/2021}, pages = {1-103}, abstract = {

Centipedes (Myriapoda: Chilopoda) are carnivorous arthropods that live in leaf litter and soil habitats on all continents except Antarctica. Roughly 3,300 species have been described to date but the taxonomy is still progressing and requires a thorough documentation of type material and type deposits. In this paper we provide an annotated catalogue of the centipede type collection at the Zoological Museum (ZMH) in Hamburg. This collection comprises 490 type specimens belonging to 141 taxa originally described as species, subspecies and varieties. More than half of these taxa were described by the pioneering myriapodologists Carl Graf Attems (Vienna) and Karl Kraepelin (Hamburg). The collection includes material representing 93 valid species or subspecies and contains specimens predominantly from Australia (33\%), Asia (22\%), Africa (20\%) and South America (20\%). Taxonomically, the focus is on the centipede orders Scolopendromorpha (56 valid species) and Geophilomorpha (28 valid species) with fewer types for the Lithobiomorpha (8 species). A total of 48 taxa (34\% of type species) have been synonymized since they were originally described and the type material for 12 additional species at the ZMH is lost. We provide a brief historical overview of this collection from its origin at the Museum Godeffroy and the Johanneum in Hamburg, including the most relevant taxonomists and collectors, followed by an annotated taxonomic catalogue with details on all species that are or were represented by type material.\ 

}, keywords = {Carl Attems, Chilopoda, Karl Kraepelin, nomenclature, Taxonomy}, issn = {1175-5334}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4977.1.1}, url = {https://mapress.com/zt/article/view/zootaxa.4977.1.1}, author = {Thofern, Detlef and Dup{\'e}rr{\'e}, Nadine and Harms, Danilo} } @article {823, title = {The myriapodological legacy of Victor~Ivanovich~Motschoulsky (1810{\textendash}1871)}, journal = {ZooKeys}, volume = {426}, year = {2014}, month = {17/07/2014}, pages = {11 - 16}, abstract = {

The little that remains of Motschoulsky\’s myriapodological legacy in the collection of Moscow\’s Zoological Museum proves to be of very limited value. Only one species of Diplopoda described by Motschoulsky, the Caucasian Hirudisoma roseum (Victor, 1839), is still in use, yet requiring a neotype designation, whereas the remaining few myriapod names he proposed are either nomina dubia or nomina nuda. The former include Scolopendra pentagramma Motschoulsky, 1866 (Chilopoda, Scolopendromorpha, Scolopendridae) and Strongylosoma carinulatum Motschoulsky, 1866 (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Paradoxosomatidae), both from Japan, as well as Julus costulatus Motschoulsky, 1851 (Diplopoda, Callipodida, Schizopetalidae?), from Montenegro, because their type material is either inadequate or missing.

}, keywords = {Moscow, Myriapoda, Russia, Taxonomy, Zoological Museum}, issn = {1313-2989}, doi = {10.3897/zookeys.426.8011}, url = {http://zookeys.pensoft.net/articles.php?id=3968}, author = {Sergei Ilyich Golovatch} } @article {383, title = {On the identity of the various taxa that have been assigned to Otostigmus (O.) politus Karsch, 1881 and forms related thereto (Chilopoda: Scolopendromorpha)}, journal = {Arthropoda Selecta}, volume = {12}, year = {2004}, month = {16/07/2004}, pages = {193{\textendash}206}, keywords = {Chilopoda, Otostigmus politus, Scolopendromorpha, Taxonomy}, issn = {0136-006X}, url = {https://kmkjournals.com/upload/PDF/ArthropodaSelecta/12/12_3\%20193_206\%20Lewis.pdf}, author = {Lewis, J. G. E.} } @article {382, title = {A re-examination of 11 species of Otostigmus from the Indo-Australian region described by R. V. Chamberlin based on type specimens in the collection of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard (Chilopoda; Scolopendromorpha; Scolopendridae)}, journal = {Journal of Natural History}, volume = {36}, year = {2002}, month = {10/2002}, pages = {1687-1706}, abstract = {

As a contribution to a revision of the scolopendromorph centipede subgenus Otostigmus of the genus Otostigmus, the type specimens of 11 species described by R. V. Chamberlin from the Indo-Australian region and in the collection of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard have been redescribed. Of these 11, six are junior synonyms of other Otostigmus species, one is a junior synonym of Rhysida longipes longipes (Newport, 1845) and one a nomen dubium. Only three, namely, Otostigmus amballae Chamberlin, 1913, Otostigmus proponens Chamberlin, 1920 and Otostigmus pamuanus Chamberlin, 1920 are valid.

}, keywords = {centipedes, Chilopoda, Indo-Australian region, Otostigmus, R. V. Chamberlin, Scolopendromorpha, synonymy, Taxonomy}, issn = {0022-2933}, doi = {10.1080/00222930110067944}, url = {https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00222930110067944}, author = {Lewis, J. G. E.} } @article {249, title = {A contribution to the knowledge of scolopendromorph centipedes of Martinique Island, with descriptions of two new species (Chilopoda: Scolopendromorpha)}, journal = {Zootaxa}, volume = {4486}, year = {2018}, month = {01/10/2018}, pages = {559{\textendash}574}, abstract = {

The paper provides new data on seven scolopendromorph centipede species collected in Martinique Island. Two new species are described: Otostigmus (Parotostigmus) salticus n. sp. and Cryptops (Trigonocryptops) martinicensis n. sp.; their systematic position is discussed. Notes on the system of subgenus Trigonocryptops Verhoeff, 1906 are given and Cryptops sarasini var. furcata Ribaut, 1923 is confirmed as subspecies. Cormocephalus guildingii Newport, 1845, Newportia longitarsis guadeloupensis Demange, 1981 and N. pusilla Pocock, 1893 are reported from Martinique for the first time. A list of the Scolopendromorpha of this island is given.

}, keywords = {Cryptops (Trigonocryptops), Lesser Antilles, list of species, Martinique, new species, Otostigmus (Parotostigmus), Taxonomy}, issn = {1175-5334}, doi = {http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4486.4.9}, url = {https://www.biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.4486.4.9}, author = {Schileyko, Arkady and Iorio, {\'E}tienne and Coulis, Mathieu} } @article {192, title = {Taxonomic reassessment and redescription of Scolopendra arthrorhabdoides Ribaut, 1913, with a discussion on its related species (Scolopendromorpha, Scolopendridae)}, journal = {Zootaxa}, volume = {4425}, year = {2018}, month = {20/05/2018}, pages = {153-164}, abstract = {

Scolopendra arthrorhabdoides Ribaut, 1913 is redescribed based on fresh material. Its taxonomic status is evaluated and compared with Scolopendra armata Kraepelin, 1903 and Scolopendra alternans Leach, 1816. The geographical distribution of S. arthrorhabdoides is also revised. Scolopendra armata is reported from Colombia for the first time.

}, keywords = {Centipede, Chilopoda, Colombia, Scolopendra, Taxonomy, Venezuela}, issn = {1175-5326}, doi = {10.11646/zootaxa.4425.110.11646/zootaxa.4425.1.9}, url = {https://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.4425.1.9}, author = {Chagas-Jr, Amazonas and Galvis-Jim{\'e}nez, Sebasti{\'a}n} }