Scolopocryptops ferrugineus ( Linnaeus, 1767 )

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 : 195-196

32. Scolopocryptops ferrugineus ( Linnaeus, 1767)

Material examined. Ghana: Bobiri Forest Reserve, Kumasi, Ashanti, from litter, high forest, Imperial College Expedition , received 8/7/1958, leg. Miss Peterson, 1 ex., BMNH?. ( Fig. 38 ) .

Type locality. West Africa ( Minelli et al. 2006) .

General distribution. West-Central Tropical Africa: Cameroon ( CM), Gabon (GA), Guinea ( GN) (Chagas- Júnior 2008).

Remarks. Scolopocryptops ferrugineus has been assigned many records in the Neotropics (Pocock 1905; Attems 1930; Kraus 1957; Chagas-Juniór 2003, among others), but these represent a diagnosibly distinct species from the West African types (Chagas-Júnior 2008). Scolopocryptops mexicanus Humbert and Saussure, 1869 , is the oldest available name for Neotropical “ ferrugineus ” (Chagas-Júnior 2008).

Figures

FIGURE 38. Scolopendra oraniensis, S. subspinipes, S. valida and Scolopocryptops ferrugineus, distribution records of specimens from Africa housed in the NHM collection.