02450nas a2200265 4500008004100000022001400041245025600055210006900311260001500380300000900395490000900404520154000413653001201953653000901965653001201974653002101986653001002007653001402017653001602031653001602047653001502063653001602078100002402094856006602118 2016 eng d a1175-532600aResurrection of Scolopendra longipes Wood and Scolopendra cubensis Saussure from synonymy with Scolopendra alternans Leach (Chilopoda, Scolopendromorpha, Scolopendridae): an enigmatic species-group needing phylogeographic analysis0 aResurrection of iScolopendra longipesi Wood and iScolopendra cub c12/05/2016 a1-200 v41113 a

Full title: Resurrection of Scolopendra longipes Wood and Scolopendra cubensis Saussure from synonymy with Scolopendra alternans Leach (Chilopoda, Scolopendromorpha, Scolopendridae): an enigmatic species-group needing phylogeographic analysis, with an overview on the origin and distribution of centipedes in the Caribbean region

Resurrection of Scolopendra longipes Wood, 1862, and Scolopendra cubensis Saussure, 1860, from junior synonymy with Scolopendra alternans Leach, 1815, is proposed. A neotype specimen of Scolopendra longipes is designated. Scolopendra longipes has a restricted range from the Dry Tortugas up through the Florida Keys of Monroe County into the mainland Florida counties of Collier and Dade southeast to the Bahamas, while Scolopendra cubensis is endemic to Cuba. Characters distinguishing S. longipes, and S. cubensis from S. alternans are illustrated and compared using digital photography, micrography and morphometric data. It is suggested that what has been considered Scolopendra alternans from southern Florida through the Caribbean and into northern South America is probably an evolving species-group that has undergone major diversification sometime during the Paleocene and early Eocene ~65.5–50 million years ago (Ma), mainly due to geographic isolation caused by a combination of plate tectonics and 100,000 year cycles of glaciation/deglaciation.

10aBahamas10aCuba10aFlorida10aGreater Antilles10aHaiti10aMyriapoda10aPuerto Rico10aSaba Island10avicariance10aWest Indies1 aMercurio, Randy, J. uhttps://www.biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.4111.1.1