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Strigamia laevipes Wood 1862

Description

Strigamia laevipes Wood, 1862 *

References for morphology: Wood 1862, 1865.

Taxonomic notes. Described originally as a species of Strigamia, it was cited variously under Linotaenia ¸ Scolioplanes or Tomotaenia. Following Chamberlin (1912b), who considered S. laevipes identical to S. epileptica and S. parviceps, and adopted S. laevipes as the name for this putatively single species, other specimens have been identified as S. laevipes but they should be probably reassigned to S. epileptica (Mercurio 2010). S. laevipes is recognized here as a distinct species only tentatively. The original description is very incomplete, and the number of trunk segments together with the geographical provenance of the type material suggest that it could be identical to another species, perhaps S. bidens (see Mercurio 2010).

Distribution: south-eastern part of North America, at least Georgia. Published records from other areas need confirmation, because of possible confusion with S. epileptica.

Notes

Published as part of Bonato, Lucio, Dányi, László, Socci, Antonio Augusto & Minelli, Alessandro, 2012, Species diversity of Strigamia Gray, 1843 (Chilopoda: Linotaeniidae): a preliminary synthesis, pp. 1-39 in Zootaxa 3593 on page 16, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.214898

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Linotaeniidae
Genus
Strigamia
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Geophilomorpha
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Wood
Species
laevipes
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Strigamia laevipes Wood, 1862 sec. Bonato, Dányi, Socci & Minelli, 2012

References

  • Wood, H. C. (1862) On the Chilopoda of North America with a catalogue of all the specimens in the collection of the Smithsonian Institution. Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 5, 5 - 52.
  • Wood, H. C. (1865) The Myriopoda of North America. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, N. S., 13, 137 - 248.
  • Chamberlin, R. V. (1912 b) The Chilopoda of California. III. Pomona College Journal of Entomology, 4, 651 - 672.
  • Mercurio, R. J. (2010) An annotated catalog of centipedes (Chilopoda) from the United States of America, Canada and Greenland (1758 - 2008). Xlibris, Milton Keynes, 560 pp.