Scolopendra polymorpha Wood, 1861
Nomenclature
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Tribe: ScolopendriniGenus: Scolopendra
SUMMARY
Species concept: Morphological Species Concept
Diagnosis: Antennae with (21)25-31 antennal articles. Basal 3-16 (usually 7-12) antennal articles sparsely hirsute (but see remarks). 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 with 4-12 (usually 4) distal spines.
See Shelley (2002: 13, 22)[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.
