Scolopendra gigantea Linnaeus, 1758
Nomenclature
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Tribe: ScolopendriniGenus: Scolopendra
SUMMARY
Species concept: Morphological Species Concept
Diagnosis: Antennae with 17 antennal articles. Basal 7-10 (usually 8-9) antennal articles sparsely hirsute. Cephalic plate with 2 anteriorly diverging longitudinal paramedian sutures. Article 3 of second maxillae with ventral ridge and with a small, pointed and sclerotized ventrodistal tip. Forcipular coxosternite with transverse suture. T1 with anterior transverse sulcus. T21 without median longitudinal suture. LL(1)2-20 with 2-4(5) dorsodistal prefemoral spines. Distomesal prefemoral process of L21 with 6-8 distal spines.
See Kraepelin (1903: 233)[1], Attems (1930: 39-40)[2], Shelley & Kiser (2000: 160-161)[3], Shelley (2006: 26)[4], and Lewis (2016: 24, Table 1)[5].
References
- , “Revision der Scolopendriden”, Mitteilungen aus dem Naturhistorischen Museum in Hamburg, vol. 20, pp. 1-276, 1903.
- , Myriapoda. 2. Scolopendromorpha, vol. 54. Berlin, Leipzig: De Gruyter, 1930, p. 308.
- , “Neotype designation and a diagnostic account for the centipede,Scolopendra gigantea L. 1758, with an account ofS. galapagoensis Bollman 1889 (Chilopoda Scolopendromorpha Scolopendridae)”, Tropical Zoology, vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 159-170, 2000.
- , “A chronological catalog of the New World species of Scolopendra L., 1758 (Chilopoda: Scolopendromorpha: Scolopendridae)”, Zootaxa, vol. 1253, no. 1, pp. 1-50, 2006.
- , “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.
