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.

Scolopendra melinonii Lucas, 1853

Original description: Lucas H. (1853). Description d’une nouvelle espèce de Scolopendra (Sc. melinonii) et sur l’Scolopendra Scopoliana - Annales de la Société entomologique de France, (3)1: 55-56, see p. 55.

Order: Scolopendromorpha

Family: Scolopendridae

Original rank: species

Original genus: Scolopendra Linnaeus, 1758

Type locality: French Guyana, Cayenne

Last taxonomic scrutiny: Kraepelin K. (1903). Revision der Scolopendriden - Jahrbuch der Hamburgischen Wissenschaftlichen Anstalten , (2)20: 1-276, see p. 266.

Distribution:

-- within Southern America: French Guiana

Notes: Possibly referable to Cormocephalus according to Kraepelin (1903, Mitt. Nat. Mus. Hamburg, 20: 266).