Hemiscolopendra marginata, antennae, legs, distomesal prefemoral process
Diagnostic description:
Species concept: Morphological Species Concept
Distribution:
USA, from the southern Atlantic Coast to west Texas, and Mexico (Shelley, 2008: 172). The occurrence in Mexico was discounted by Shelley (2002)[1] but confirmed by Shelley (2008), who summarized the records from Tamaulipas, Guerrero, and Chiapas states. Cupul-Magaña et al. (2018: 2)[2] provided the first record from San Luis Potosí.
References
- , «A synopsis of the North American centipedes of the order Scolopendromorpha (Chilopoda)», Virginia Museum of Natural History Memoir, vol. 5, pp. 1-108, 2002.
- , «First record of parental care in the scolopendrid centipede Hemiscolopendra marginata (Say, 1821) from Mexico (Scolopendromorpha: Scolopendridae)», The Pan-Pacific Entomologist, vol. 94, n.º 1, pp. 1-3, 2018.