Scolopendra mirabilis ( Porat, 1876 )

Simaiakis, Stylianos Michail & Edgecombe, Gregory D., 2013, 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), Zootaxa 3734 (2), pp. 169-198 : 191

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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FIGURE 37. Scolopendra mirabilis and S. morsitans, distribution records of specimens from Africa housed in the NHM collection.