Asanada socotrana Pocock, 1899

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 : 185

17. Asanada socotrana Pocock, 1899

Asanada zambiana Dobroruka, 1969 (for further synonyms see Minelli et al. 2006).

Material examined. Malawi: Magomero , 28/12/62, M.19, leg. R . C.H. Sweeney , 1 ex., BMNH ?; Sudan: Anglo- Egyptian Sudan, No. 173, 4/1932, leg. Miss Mary Steele, 1 ex., BMNH 1935.10.17.397; Uganda: Lake Rudolf , mouth of Kaliokwel river , Cambridge Expedition to East African Lakes 1931, leg. E.B. Worthington, 1 ex., BMNH 1934.2.15.151-154; Sokotra Isl. : Kischen, 20/9/1956, Coll. Oxford University, 1 ex., BMNH ?. ( Fig. 30 ).

Type locality. Sokotra Isl. (Hadibu Plain, Jena-agahan, Dahamis, Homhil) ( Minelli et al. 2006) .

General distribution. East Tropical Africa: Kenya (KE), Uganda ( UG); Northeast Tropical Africa: Eritrea (ER), Ethiopia ( ET), Sokotra Isl. ( YE), Somalia (SO), Sudan (SD); South Tropical Africa: Zambia (ZM), Zimbabwe ( ZW); West Tropical Africa: Guinea ( GN), Nigeria ( NG), Senegal (SN); West-Central Tropical Africa: Congo ( CG); Southern Africa: South Africa (Transvaal) (ZA), Botswana ( BW); Asia Temperate: Saudi Arabia ( SA), Oman ( OM); Asia Tropical: India ( Bombay) ( IN) ( Schileyko and Stagl 2004; Minelli et al. 2006).

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FIGURE 30. Asanada socotrana, Cormocephalus anceps and C. cupipes, distribution records of specimens from Africa housed in the NHM collection.