Scolopendra arthrorhabdoides Ribaut 1912
Authors/Creators
- 1. Laboratorio Especial de Toxinologia Aplicada, Instituto Butantan, Av. Vital Brasil, 1500, Butantã, CEP- 05503 - 900, São Paulo, SP, Brasil
- 2. Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia
- 3. Departamento de Geologia, Instituto de Geociências, CCMN, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. Av. Athos da Silveira Ramos, 274 Cidade Universitaria, CEP- 21941 - 916, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil
Description
Scolopendra arthrorhabdoides Ribaut, 1912
Material examined. ICN-M.Ch-0036, 1 specimen, Meta, Cubarral, Vereda Vergel Alto, Estudiantes Sistemática Animal, 13-VI-1996, 1100 m; ICN-M.Ch-0239, 1 specimen, Meta, Villavicencio, Bosque Bavaria, R. Delvalle, 14- IV-2012, Antigua vía a Villavicencio-Bogotá; ICN-M.Ch-0145, 1 specimen, Boyacá, Santa María, E. Flórez & D. Luna, 14-V- 2009, 490 m, 4º50'39'' N; 73º13'25'' W; ICN-M.Ch-0120, 1 specimen, Chocó, Mumbu, E. Flórez, **- X- 1991, 500 m; MNRJ, 4 specimens, Meta, Villavicencio, Finca La Loma, A. Giupponi, viii.2006, Pt 1; MNRJ, 1 specimen, Meta, Villavicencio, Restrepo, A. Giupponi, viii.2006, Pt 2; MPUJ _ ENT 0001064 (MPUJ-CHI-0061), 1 specimen, Meta, Villavicencio, Bosque Bavaria, S. Rojas, 08/04/2006, 600M 4° 10`52.19``N – 73° 39`07.06``O; MPUJ _ ENT 0001065 (MPUJ-CHI-0062), 1 specimen, Cundinamarca, Tena, Vereda Alto de la Cruz, A. Parrado, 05/11/ 1997, 1550m, 4° 46' 58'' N – 73° 37' 58'' W.
Distribution. The species was hitherto known only from its type locality, Guaduas, in the Province of Cundinamarca (Ribaut 1912; Bücherl 1942; Attems 1930; Shelley 2006), but it is now also recorded from the Andean, Orinoquia and Pacific regions. It occurs most commonly in the Province of Meta.
Altitudinal range. 150 to 1550 m.
Remarks. Ribaut (1912) described the ventromedial spine of prefemur 20 as a diagnostic character for S. arthrorabdoides. In some specimens of S. arthrorabdoides the ventralmedial spine is absent (Fig. 2), but it is present in most specimens examined (Fig.3). We are not sure if this character is sexually dimorphic, but it is absent in males we examined and present in females as well as in some specimens that were not sexed. Scolopendra arthrorabdoides is also characteristized by its small body size (42 mm to 60 mm), colourful cephalic plate, and ultimate pair of dark blue legs; tergites, light blue colour of the sternites and walking legs, and tergite 1 without anterior transverse suture.
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- MNRJ , MPUJ
- Material sample ID
- ENT 0001064
- Event date
- 1996-06-13 , 2006-04-08
- Verbatim event date
- 1996-06-13/2012-04-14 , 2006-04-08
- Scientific name authorship
- Ribaut
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Scolopendromorpha
- Family
- Scolopendridae
- Genus
- Scolopendra
- Species
- arthrorhabdoides
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Scolopendra arthrorhabdoides Ribaut, 1912 sec. Chagas-Jr, Chaparro, Jiménez, Triana, Flórez & Seoane, 2014
References
- Ribaut, H. (1912) Contribution a l'etude des chilopodes de Colombie (O. Fuhrmann et Eug. Mayor, voyage d'exploration scientifique en Colombie). Memoires de la Societe de Sciences Naturelles de Neuchatel, 5, 67 - 95.
- Bucherl, W. (1942) Catalogo dos quilopodos da zona neotropica. Memorias do Instituto Butantan, 15, 251 - 372.
- Attems, C. (1930) Myriapoda 2. Scolopendromorpha. Das Tierreich, 54. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, 308 pp.
- Shelley, R. M. (2006) A chronological catalog of the New World species of Scolopendra L., 1758 (Chilopoda: Scolopendromorpha: Scolopendridae). Zootaxa, 1253, 1 - 50.