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Issue: Vol. 1155 No. 1: 20 Mar. 2006
Type: Articles
Published: 2006-03-20
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1155.1.3
Page range: 35–40
Abstract views: 93
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Taxonomic and nomenclatural notes on scolopendrid centipedes (Chilopoda: Scolopendromorpha: Scolopendridae)

Department of Entomology, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK and Somerset County Museum, Taunton Castle, Castle Green, Somerset TA1 4AA, UK
Department of Biology, University of Padova, Via Ugo Bassi 58B, I-35131 Padova, Italy
Research Lab., North Carolina State Museum of Natural Sciences, 4301 Reedy Creek Rd., Raleigh, North Carolina 27607,USA
Myriapoda Trachycormocephalus Scolopendra Rhysida Otostigmus (Parotostigmus) Congobius synonymy homonymy

Abstract

Some taxonomic and nomenclatural inconsistencies in the Scolopendridae are clarified. Heterostoma cribriferum var. robustum Haase, 1887 is placed in synonymy under Ethmostigmus rubripes platycephalus (Newport, 1845), and the synonymy of Congobius Dobroruka, 1968 and Parotostigmus Pocock, 1896 (a valid subgenus of Otostigmus Porat, 1876) is formalized. The nomen novum Scolopendra attemsi is proposed for Trachycormocephalus intermedius Attems, 1928, to avert homonymy with S. intermedia Porat, 1871, upon transferring the former into Scolopendra. The following seven new combinations are proposed: Scolopendra lutea (Attems, 1928) (transferred from Arthrorhabdus); S. arenicola (Lawrence, 1975), S. koreana (Verhoeff, 1934), S. langi (Chamberlin, 1927), S. monticola (Lawrence, 1975) and S. zuluana (Lawrence, 1958) (all from Trachycormocephalus); Otostigmus (Parotostigmus) kivuensis (Dobroruka, 1968) (from Congobius). Additionally, two subspecies of Rhysida nuda (Newport, 1845) — somala Manfredi, 1933 and subnuda Jangi, 1955 — are assigned to R. immarginata (Porat, 1876).

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