Asanada sokotrana Pocock, 1899
Asanada sokotrana Pocock, 1899
Original description: Pocock R.I. (1899). The expedition to Sokotra. Descriptions of the new species of scorpions centipedes and millipedes - Bulletin of the Liverpool Museums , 2: 7-9, see p. 9.
Order: Scolopendromorpha
Family: Scolopendridae
Original rank: species
Original genus: Asanada Meinert, 1886
Type locality: Yemen, Socotra I. (Hadibu Plain, Jena-agahan, Dahamis, Homhil).
Synonym(s):
- Asanada zambiana Dobroruka, 1969
- Asanada brevicornis afra Silvestri, 1918
- Asanada sokotrana attemsi Lewis, 1967
- Asanada sokotrana kalaharina Lawrence, 1936
Subspecies:
Last taxonomic scrutiny: Schileyko A.A., Stagl V. (2004). The collection of scolopendromorph centipedes (Chilopoda) in the Natural History Museum in Vienna: a critical re-evaluation of former taxonomic identifications - Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien, Serie B, 105B: 67-137, see p. 112.
Distribution:
-- within Africa: Congo; Eritrea; Ethiopia; Guinea; Kenya; Nigeria; Senegal; Somalia; Sudan; Uganda; Zambia; Zimbabwe
Notes: The status of various populations referred to this species remains to be resolved, as does the status of other species of Asanada.
