Scolopendromorph centipedes (Chilopoda: Scolopendromorpha) in the Natural History Museum (London): A review of the hitherto unidentified species collected in Africa, with remarks on taxonomy and distribution, and a new species of Otostigmus (Parotostigmus)
Author
Simaiakis, Stylianos Michail
Natural History Museum of Crete, University of Crete, Knossos Av., Herakleion 71409, Crete, Greece.
ssimaiakis@yahoo.com
Author
Edgecombe, Gregory D.
Department of Earth Sciences, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW 7 5 BD, United Kingdom.
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Zootaxa
2013
2013-11-05
3734
2
169
198
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3734.2.5
1175-5326
5275595
36ED88E6-2CEB-4071-8429-A39901B8B9BF
25.
Scolopendra canidens
Newport, 1844
Scolopendra affinis
Newport, 1844
(for further synonyms see
Minelli
et al
. 2006
).
Material examined.
Algeria
:
Laghouat
,
4-11/4/1911
, leg.
Lord Rothschild
, 2 exx.,
BMNH
1931.1.28.2-3;
Libya
:
Benghazi
,
December 1943
, received through
Dr. Malcolm Smith
, leg. unknown,
1 ex.
,
BMNH
1943.12.3.11;
Libya
:
Boherat
,
Gulf
of
Sirte
,
J.A.L. Cooke
collection
North Africa
, on his way to
Tanganyika
, under stone on sand, near beach,
7/2/1960
,
No.
2069, leg.
J.A.L. Cooke.
,
1 ex.
,
BMNH
?;
Morocco
: Ahaggar Mtns., leg.
R
.
Meinertzhagen
, 10 exx.,
BMNH
?. (
Fig. 36
).
Type
locality.
Egypt
(
Minelli
et al
. 2006
).
General distribution.
Northern Africa:
Algeria
(
DZ
),
Egypt
(
EG
),
Libya
(
LY
),
Morocco
(MA),
Tunisia
(
TN
); Caucasus:
Armenia
(
AM
), Azerbaijahn (AZ); Central Asia:
Tadzhikistan
(
TJ
),
Turkmenistan
(
TM
),
Uzbekistan
(
UZ
); Western Asia:
Iran
(
IR
),
Palestine
(PA),
Turkey
(TR); Southeastern Europe:
Greece
(GR),
Italy
(
IT
) (
Zapparoli 2002
;
Minelli
et al
. 2006
;
Akkari
et al
. 2008
;
Simaiakis and Mylonas 2008
).