ChiloBase 2.0

Recommended citation:
Bonato L., Chagas Junior A.,
Edgecombe G.D. Lewis J.G.E.,
Minelli A., Pereira L.A.,
Shelley R.M., Stoev P.,
Zapparoli M. (2016)
ChiloBase 2.0 - A World Catalogue
of Centipedes (Chilopoda).
Available at https://chilobase.biologia.unipd.it.

Arthrorhabdus pygmaeus (Pocock,1895)

Original description: Pocock R.I. (1895). Chilopoda. In: Godman F. D. & Salvin O. (eds.), Biologia Centrali-Americana - Porter, London, 14: 1-40, see p. 15.

Order: Scolopendromorpha

Family: Scolopendridae

Original rank: species

Original genus: Scolopendra Linnaeus, 1758

Type locality: Mexico, Guerrero, Amula

Last taxonomic scrutiny: Shelley R.M. & Chagas A. Jr. (2004). The centipede genus Arthrorhabdus Pocock, 1891, in the Western hemisphere: Potential occurrence of A. pygmaeus (Pocock, 1895) in Belize (Scolopendromorpha: Scolopendridae: Scolopendrinae) - Western North American Naturalist, 64(4): 532-537, see p. 532.

Distribution:

-- within Northern America: Arizona; New Mexico; Texas

Notes: This species was transferred into Arthrorhabdus by Kraepelin (1903, Mitt. Nat. Mus. Hamburg, 20:222). Verhoeff (1907, in Verhoeff 1902-1925, Klassen und Ordnungen des Tier-Reichs, 5(2):262) proposed the subgenus Arthrorhabdinus specifically for S. pygmaea, but the species has never been published in combination with this genus-group name. Possibly present also in Belize.