Species concept: Morphological Species Concept
Diagnosis: Antennae with 21-31 antennal articles. Basal 4-7 antennal articles sparsely hirsute. Cephalic plate without longitudinal paramedian sutures. Articles 2 and 3 of second maxillae ventrally rounded, without ventral ridges. Forcipular coxosternite without transverse suture. T1 with anterior transverse sulcus. T21 with median longitudinal suture. LL19-20 without dorsodistal prefemoral spines. Distomesal prefemoral process of L21 usually with 2 distal spines.
See Shelley (2002: 12-14)[1] and Lewis (2016: 24, Table 1)[2].
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.
- , “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.
Scolopendra viridis occurs in the USA, Mexico, and Central America. USA: North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Louisiana, and Texas (see Shelley, 2002: 15-16[1]). Recorded from Alabama, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, and Nevada by Shelley (2002: 16, 17-18)[1]. Mexico: Baja California Sur, Sonora, Nuevo León, Veracruz, Colima, Mexico City (as Distrito Federal), Morelos, and Puebla (see Shelley, 2002: 16[1]). Recorded from Chihuahua, Coahuila, Durango, Guanajuato, Guerrero, Hidalgo, Jalisco, México, Michoacán, Nayarit, Oaxaca, Querétaro, San Luis Potosí, Sinaloa, Tamaulipas, and Zacatecas by Shelley (2002: 19-20)[1]. Recorded from Baja California (Norte) and Chiapas by Cupul-Magaña (2010: 5)[2]. Recorded from Aguascalientes by Lucio-Palacio (2010: 147)[3]. Central America: Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica (see Shelley, 2002: 16[1]). Reported from Panama (including Pearl Islands: San José Island) by Shelley (2002: 20)[1].
Deletions: Canada; USA: Virginia, Tennessee, Oregon, and Washington; Venezuela; Brazil, all by Shelley (2002: 16)[1].
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.
- , “An annotated list of the centipedes (Chilopoda) in the National Collection of Arachnids, Instituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México”, Insecta Mundi, vol. 125, pp. 1-10, 2010.
- , “Primer registro de Scolopendra viridis Say 1821 (Myriapoda: Scolopendromorpha) para Aguascalientes, México”, Dugesiana, vol. 17, no. 2, pp. 147-148, 2010.