The centipedes (Arthropoda, Myriapoda, Chilopoda) from Colombia: Part I. Scutigeromorpha and Scolopendromorpha Author Chagas-Jr, Amazonas amazonaschagas@gmail.com Author Chaparro, Elisa Laboratorio Especial de Toxinologia Aplicada, Instituto Butantan, Av. Vital Brasil, 1500, Butantã, CEP- 05503 - 900, São Paulo, SP, Brasil Author Jiménez, Sebastián Galvis Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia Author Triana, Hernán Darío Triana Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia Author Flórez, Eduardo Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia Author Seoane, José Carlos Sícoli 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 text Zootaxa 2014 2014-03-14 3779 2 133 156 journal article 5833 10.11646/zootaxa.3779.2.2 add91096-4341-4cad-8dbb-4f2fa3dbd773 1175-5326 4910241 008B7919-D879-4270-ADA1-BFE054B8019A * Scolopocryptops miersii Newport, 1845 Material examined. ICN-M.Ch-0013, 1 specimen , Vaupés , Estacion Biológica Caparú, L . Benavides , 25-VI- 2003 , 200 m ; ICN-M.Ch-0075, 1 specimen , Vaupés , Estación Biológica Mosiro-Itajura ( Caparú ), L. Benavides , 25-IV- 2003 , 200 m ; ICN-M.Ch-0076, 1 specimen , Vaupés , Estación Biológica Mosiro-Itajura ( Caparú ), L. Benavides , 25-IV- 2003 , 200 m ; ICN-M.Ch-0101, 1 specimen , Amazonas , Leticia , Km 11 vía Tarapacá , Estud. Biologia UN y Edo Flórez , 9-XI- 2001 , 100 m ; ICN-M.Ch-0151, 1 specimen , Vaupés , Estación Biológica Mosiro-Itajura ( Caparú ), J. Pinzón , 2002–2004 ; ICN-M.Ch-0131, 2 specimens , Vaupés , Estación Biológica Mosiro-Itajura ( Caparú ), J. Pinzón , 2002–2004 ; ICN-M.Ch-0021, 1 specimen , Vaupés , Estacion Biológica Caparú, L . Benavides , 25-IV- 2003 , 200 m ; ICN-M.Ch-0024, 1 specimen , Amazonas , Leticia , Km 4 vía Tarapacá , Estudiantes Sistemática Animal , **- I-2002 ; ICN-M.Ch-0129, 1 specimen , Vaupés , Estación Biológica Mosiro-Itajura ( Caparú ), Pinzón , 2002–2004 . Distribution. This species is widely distributed in the Neotropics, from Antilles to Argentina . It is known from Martinique, Trinidad and Tobago , Venezuela , Guyana , Brazil and Argentina ( Chagas-Jr 2003 ). The new record from Colombia , in the Amazonian Región, confirms its cis-Andine distribution in low areas of South America. Altitudinal range. 83 to 200 m . Remarks. Scolopocryptops miersii was described by Newport (1845) and transferred to Dinocryptops Crabill, 1953 by Crabill (1953) . Chagas-Jr (2008) in a phylogenetic analysis of Scolopocryptopinae showed that Dinocryptops is a paraphyletic genus, and that D. miersii belongs to Scolopocryptops . More recently, Edgecombe et al . (2012) , by applying combined morphological and molecular phylogenetic data, fixed the taxonomic status of the species and corroborated the morphological data presented by Chagas-Jr (2008) .