Scolopendra afer
Authors/Creators
- 1. Natural History Museum of Crete, University of Crete, Knossos Av., Herakleion 71409, Crete, Greece.
- 2. Department of Earth Sciences, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW 7 5 BD, United Kingdom.
Description
24. Scolopendra afer (Meinert, 1886)
Scolopendra crassicornis Porat, 1893 (for further synonyms see Minelli et al. 2006).
Material examined. Kenya: Lake Naivasha, Kenya Colony, near Lake, Cambridge Expedition to East African Lakes 1931, leg. E.B. Worthington, 1 ex., BMNH?; Kenya: Lion Hill, by cave, 19 May 1929, B. 92, Joint Expedition British Assoc. & Percy Sladen Trust to Rift Valley Lakes, Kenya 1929, leg. P.M. Jenkin, 1 ex., BMNH 1929.10.10.43; Kenya: Naramum, Northern Turkana, Kenya Colony, 20/3/1934, Lake Rudolf Rift Valley Expedition 1934, leg. V. E. Fuchs, 6 exx., BMNH 1952.5.3187-191; Mozambique: Lumbo, Port East Africa, 30/7/ 1918, leg. A. Laveridge, 7 exx., BMNH?; Tanzania: 2 nd Oxford University Tanganyika Expedition, Mahali Peninsula, loc. Sitete, No. 775, 4.500 ft, 5/10/59, habitat: in grass in dense vegetation in small valley, leg. J.A.C., 1 ex., BMNH?. (Fig. 36).
Type locality. Zanzibar Isl. (Minelli et al. 2006).
General distribution. East Tropical Africa: Kenya (KE), Tanzania (TZ), Uganda (UG); Northeast Tropical Africa: Ethiopia (ET), Sudan (SD); South Tropical Africa: Angola (AO), Mozambique (MZ) (new region record), Zimbabwe (ZW); West-Central Tropical Africa: Congo (CG) (Minelli et al. 2006).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- BMNH , V
- Event date
- 1918-07-30 , 1929-05-19 , 1934-03-20
- Verbatim event date
- 1918-07-30 , 1929-05-19 , 1934-03-20
- Scientific name authorship
- Meinert
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Scolopendromorpha
- Family
- Scolopendridae
- Genus
- Scolopendra
- Species
- afer
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Scolopendra afer (Meinert, 1886) sec. Simaiakis & Edgecombe, 2013
References
- Meinert, F. (1886) Myriapoda Musei Cantabrigensis. Part I. Chilopoda. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, 23, 161 - 233.
- Porat, C. O. von (1893) Myriopoder fran Vest-och Syd-Afrika. Bihang till Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Handlingar, 18 (4), 1 - 51.
- Minelli, A., Bonato, L., Dioguardi, R., Chagas, J. A., Edgecombe, G. D., Lewis, J. G. E., Pereira, L. A., Shelley, R. M., Stoev, P., Uliana, M. & Zapparoli, M. (2006 and onwards). CHILOBASE. A web resource for Chilopoda taxonomy.