Scolopendra mirabilis
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
27. Scolopendra mirabilis (Porat, 1876)
Cormocephalus acanthophorus Kohlrausch, 1878 (for further synonyms see Minelli et al. 2006).
Material examined. Kenya: Northern Turkana, Kenya Colony, Feb. – June 1934, Lake Rudolf Rift Valley Expedition 1934, leg. V. E. Fuchs, 2 exx., BMNH 1952.5.3.182-186; Kenya: Lodwar, Northern Turkana, Kenya Colony, 29/4/1934, Lake Rudolf Rift Valley Expedition 1934, leg. V. E. Fuchs, 1 ex., BMNH 1952.5.3.197; Kenya: Lodwar, Northern Turkana, Kenya Colony, 8/5/1934, Lake Rudolf Rift Valley Expedition 1934, leg. V. E. Fuchs, 1 ex., BMNH 1952.5.3.198; Kenya: Naramum, Northern Turkana, Kenya Colony, 20/3/1934, Lake Rudolf Rift Valley Expedition 1934, leg. V. E. Fuchs, 1 ex., BMNH 1952.5.3.187-191; Somalia: British Somaliland, leg. Dr. W.A. Macfadyen, 1 ex., BMNH 1930.12.8.4; Sudan: Erkowit, c. 50 m S.E. of Sinkat, December 1960, leg. J.L. Cloudsley-Thompson, 1 ex., BMNH?; Sudan: Port Sudan, Feb. 1923, leg. L.Hirsk, 3 exx., BMNH 1928.4.16.66- 69; Tanzania: Moragoro, 1967, received 15/1/1969, leg. T. Wood & W.W. Page, 1 ex., BMNH?; Uganda: Lake Rudolf, mouth of Kaliokwel river, Cambridge Expedition to East African Lakes 1931, leg. E.B. Worthington, 4 exx., BMNH 1934.2.15.151-154. (Fig. 37).
Type locality. Sudan (White Nile in Kordofan) (Minelli et al. 2006).
General distribution. East Tropical Africa: Kenya (KE) (new region record), Tanzania (TZ), Uganda (UG) (new region record); Northeast Tropical Africa: Eritrea (ER), Ethiopia (ET), Somalia (SO), Sudan (SD); Northern Africa: Egypt (EG); Central Asia: Tadzhikistan (TJ), Turkmenistan (TM), Uzbekistan (UZ); Western Asia: Afghanistan (AF), Iran (IR); Asia Tropical: Vietnam (VN) (Minelli et al. 2006; Simaiakis and Mylonas 2008).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- BMNH , T , V
- Event date
- 1934-03-20 , 1934-04-29 , 1934-05-08 , 1969-01-15
- Verbatim event date
- 1934-03-20 , 1934-04-29 , 1934-05-08 , 1969-01-15
- Scientific name authorship
- Porat
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Scolopendromorpha
- Family
- Scolopendridae
- Genus
- Scolopendra
- Species
- mirabilis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Scolopendra mirabilis (Porat, 1876) sec. Simaiakis & Edgecombe, 2013
References
- Porat, C. O. von (1876) Om nagra exotiska myriopoder. Bihang till Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademien Handlingar, 4, 7, 1 - 48.
- 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.
- Simaiakis, S. & Mylonas, M. (2008) The Scolopendra species (Chilopoda: Scolopendromorpha: Scolopendridae) of Greece (E- Mediterranean): a theoretical approach on the effect of geography and palaeogeography on their distribution. Zootaxa, 1792, 39 - 53.