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 afer (Meinert,1886)

Original description: Meinert F. (1886). Myriapoda Musei Cantabrigiensis. Part I. Chilopoda - Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society , 23: 161-233, see p. 205.

Order: Scolopendromorpha

Family: Scolopendridae

Original rank: species

Original genus: Cormocephalus Newport, 1844

Type locality: Tanzania, Zanzibar I.

Synonym(s):

• Scolopendra crassicornis Porat, 1893
• Scolopendra gardullana Attems, 1909

Last taxonomic scrutiny: Lewis J.G.E. (2001). The scolopendrid centipedes in the collections of the National Museum of Natural History in Sofia (Chilopoda: Scolopendromorpha: Scolopendridae) - Historia Naturalis Bulgarica, 13: 5-51, see p. 10.

Distribution:

-- within Africa: Angola; Congo; Ethiopia; Kenya; Sudan; Tanzania; Uganda; Zimbabwe