Scolopendra afer ( Meinert, 1886 )

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 : 190

24. Scolopendra afer ( Meinert, 1886)

Scolopendra crassicornis Porat, 1893 (for further synonyms see Minelli et al. 2006).

Material examined. Kenya: Lake Naivasha , Kenya Colony, near Lake, Cambridge Expedition to East African Lakes 1931, leg. E.B. Worthington, 1 ex., BMNH ?; Kenya: Lion Hill , by cave, 19 May 1929, B. 92, Joint Expedition British Assoc. & Percy Sladen Trust to Rift Valley Lakes , Kenya 1929, leg. P.M. Jenkin, 1 ex., BMNH 1929.10.10.43; Kenya: Naramum, Northern Turkana , Kenya Colony, 20/3/1934, Lake Rudolf Rift Valley Expedition 1934, leg. V . E. Fuchs , 6 exx., BMNH 1952.5.3187-191; Mozambique: Lumbo, Port East Africa , 30/7/ 1918, leg. A. Laveridge, 7 exx., BMNH ?; Tanzania: 2 nd Oxford University Tanganyika Expedition, Mahali Peninsula, loc. Sitete , No. 775, 4.500 ft, 5/10/59, habitat: in grass in dense vegetation in small valley, leg. J.A.C., 1 ex., BMNH ?. ( Fig. 36 ).

Type locality. Zanzibar Isl. ( Minelli et al. 2006).

General distribution. East Tropical Africa: Kenya (KE), Tanzania ( TZ), Uganda ( UG); Northeast Tropical Africa: Ethiopia ( ET), Sudan (SD); South Tropical Africa: Angola (AO), Mozambique ( MZ) (new region record), Zimbabwe ( ZW); West-Central Tropical Africa: Congo ( CG) ( Minelli et al. 2006).

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FIGURE 36. Scolopendra afer, S. canidens and S. cingulata, distribution records of specimens from Africa housed in the NHM collection.