Scolopendra alternans Leach, 1815
Scolopendra alternans Leach, 1815
Original description: Leach W.E. (1815). A tabular view of the external characters of four classes of animals, which Linné arranged under Insecta; with the distribution of the genera composing three of these classes into orders, &c. and descriptions of several new genera and species - Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, 11: 306-400, see p. .
Order: Scolopendromorpha
Family: Scolopendridae
Original rank: species
Original genus: Scolopendra Linnaeus, 1758
Type locality: British Virgin Islands, Tortola, Fat Hog's Bay
Synonym(s):
- Scolopendra complanata Newport, 1844
- Scolopendra cubensis Saussure, 1858
- Scolopendra grayi Newport, 1844
- Scolopendra hirsutipes Bollman, 1893
- Scolopendra incerta Newport, 1845
- Scolopendra longipes Wood, 1862
- Scolopendra multispinata Newport, 1844
- Scolopendra sagraea Gervais, 1837
- Scolopendra testacea Wood, 1861
- Scolopendra torquata Wood, 1861
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. 35.
Distribution:
-- within Northern America: Florida
-- within Southern America: Antigua-Barbuda; Bahamas; British Virgin Is.; Cuba; Dominican Republic; Guadeloupe; Haiti; Puerto Rico; St.Lucia; Trinidad-Tobago; Venezuela; Virgin Is.
Notes: The type locality is of neotype
