Scolopendra heros, antennae, forcipular coxosternite, prefemoral spines, second maxilla, second maxillae, distomesal prefemoral process, prefemoral spine

Diagnostic description: 

Species concept: Morphological Species Concept

Diagnosis: Antennae with 24-26 antennal articles. Basal 2-6 (usually 3-5) antennal articles sparsely hirsute. Cephalic plate with 2 anteriorly diverging longitudinal paramedian sutures. Articles 2 and 3 of second maxillae with ventral ridges ending in teeth. Forcipular coxosternite with transverse suture. T1 with anterior transverse sulcus. T21 without median longitudinal suture. LL19-20 without dorsodistal prefemoral spines. Distomesal prefemoral process of L21 with 5-20 (usually 6-9) distal spines.

See Shelley (2002: 12, 29-30)[1] and Lewis (2016: 24, Table 1)[2].

References

  1. R. M. Shelley, “A synopsis of the North American centipedes of the order Scolopendromorpha (Chilopoda)”, Virginia Museum of Natural History Memoir, vol. 5, pp. 1-108, 2002.
  2. J. G. E. Lewis, “On the consistency of some taxonomic characters in the Scolopendromorpha and comments on the scolopocryptopid subfamily Kethopinae (Myriapoda: Chilopoda)”, Acta Societatis Zoologicae Bohemicae, vol. 80, no. 1, pp. 21-31, 2016.
Distribution: 

Scolopendra heros is found in the USA and Mexico. USA: Louisiana, Arkansas, Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona (see Shelley, 2002: 33-34[1]). Mexico: Chihuahua, Coahuila, Sonora, Sinaloa, and Nayarit (see Shelley, 2002: 34-35[1]), and Colima (Cupul-Magaña, 2010: 133[2]).

Deleted records: USA: Deleted from New York by Underwood (1887: 64[3]). Deleted from Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Kentucky, Nebraska, Colorado, Utah, California and eastern Louisiana by Shelley (2002: 33[1]). Mexico: The species was reported from Yucatán by Cupul-Magaña & Bueno-Villegas (2015: 8[4]). The record was based on a misidentification of a specimen of S. sumichrasti (Cupul-Magaña et al., 2018: 86[5]).

References

  1. R. M. Shelley, “A synopsis of the North American centipedes of the order Scolopendromorpha (Chilopoda)”, Virginia Museum of Natural History Memoir, vol. 5, pp. 1-108, 2002.
  2. F. Gán Cupul-Magaña, “Ampliación del ámbito geográfico sureño para el ciempiés Scolopendra heros Girard, 1853 (Scolopendromorpha: Scolopendridae) en México”, Brenesia, vol. 73-74, pp. 133-134, 2010.
  3. L. M. Underwood, “The Scolopendridӕ of the United States”, Entomologica Americana, vol. 3, no. 4, pp. 61-65, 1887.
  4. F. Gán Cupul-Magaña and Bueno-Villegas, J., “Primer registro del ciempiés Scolopendra heros Girard, 1853 (Scolopendromorpha: Scolopendridae) en Yucatán, México”, Boletín del Museo de Entomología de la Universidad del Valle, vol. 15, no. 2, pp. 7-9, 2015.
  5. F. G. Cupul-Magaña, Bueno-Villegas, J., and Rodríguez-López, E., “Nuevas localidades de registro de Scolopendra sumichrasti Saussure en México (Scolopendromorpha: Scolopendridae)”, Revista Chilena de Entomología, vol. 44, no. 1, pp. 85-92, 2018.
Taxonomic name: 
Scolopendra heros (Taxonomy), antennae (Morphology), forcipular coxosternite (Morphology), prefemoral spines (Morphology), second maxilla (Morphology), second maxillae (Morphology), distomesal prefemoral process (Morphology), prefemoral spine (Morphology)
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