Scolopocryptops rubiginosus L. Koch, 1878



Scolopocryptops rubiginosus L. Koch, 1878

Original description: Koch L. (1878). Japanesische Arachniden und Myriapoden - Verhandlungen der Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien, 27: 785-795, see p. 792.

Order: Scolopendromorpha

Family: Scolopocryptopidae

Original rank: species

Original genus: Scolopocryptops Newport, 1844

Type locality: Japan

Last taxonomic scrutiny: Shelley R.M. (2002). A synopsis of the North American centipedes of the order Scolopendromorpha (Chilopoda) - Virginia Museum of Natural History Memoir, 5: viii+108 pp., see p. 66.

Distribution:

-- within Asia-Temperate: Nansei-shoto; Taiwan

-- within Asia-Tropical: Vietnam

-- within Northern America: Alaska; Arkansas; Illinois; Indiana; Iowa; Kansas; Minnesota; Missouri; Nebraska; Ohio; Oklahoma; Texas; Wisconsin

Notes: American records possibly refer to a different species.