Scolopendra gigantea, antennae, forcipular coxosternite, prefemoral spines, second maxilla, second maxillae, distomesal prefemoral process, prefemoral spine
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.
Panama (Quintero Arias & Cupul-Magaña, 2013: 13)[1], the Caribbean coastline of northern South America including Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, and Suriname (Shelley, 2006: 5)[2], and the islands of Aruba, Curaçao, Margarita Island, and Trinidad (Shelley & Kiser, 2000: 163[3]; Shelley, 2006: 5[2]).
Records needing confirmation: Brazil: Goiás & Alagoas states (Bücherl, 1942[4]; Shelley, 2006: 5[2]).
Deletions: Specimens from the US Virgin Islands, Haiti, Mexico, and Honduras are assumed to represent accidental human importations or perhaps labeling errors; with only one individual from each of these areas, the species does not appear to be established in any of them (Shelley & Kiser, 2000: 163[3]; Shelley, 2006: 5[2]). Kraepelin (1903: 233)[5] and Attems (1930: 40)[6] cited Brazil and Chile for S. gigantea, which were deleted by Shelley & Kiser (2000: 163, 165)[3]. A misidentified record of S. gigantea from Sinaloa state, Mexico by Sánchez Vargas (2002: 218, unnumbered figure)[7] was corrected by Cupul-Magaña (2014: 75)[8] to S. polymorpha.
References
- , “First record of Scolopendra gigantea Linnaeus, 1758 (Chilopoda: Scolopendromorpha: Scolopendridae) from Panama”, Boletín del Museo de Entomología de la Universidad del Valle, vol. 14, no. 2, pp. 12-15, 2013.
- , “A chronological catalog of the New World species of Scolopendra L., 1758 (Chilopoda: Scolopendromorpha: Scolopendridae)”, Zootaxa, vol. 1253, no. 1, pp. 1-50, 2006.
- , “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.
- , “Catálogo dos Quilópodos da zona neotrópica”, Memórias do Instituto Butantan, vol. 15, pp. 251–372, 1942.
- , “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.
- , “Arácnidos y miriápodos: alacranes, arañas, ciempiés y otros parientes artrópodos poco conocidos”, in Atlas de la biodiversidad de Sinaloa, Culiacán: El Colegio de Sinaloa, 2002, pp. 211-219.
- , “Registro de las especies de ciempiés (Chilopoda) y milpiés (Diplopoda) de Sinaloa, México”, Actualidades Biológicas, vol. 36, pp. 73-76, 2014.