Cormocephalus rubriceps (Newport,1843)
Cormocephalus rubriceps (Newport,1843)
Original description: Newport G. (1843). On the structure, relations, and development of the nervous and circulatory systems, and on the existence of a complete circulation of the blood in vessels, in Myriapoda and macrourous Arachnida. First series - Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London , [1843]: 243-302, see p. 270.
Order: Scolopendromorpha
Family: Scolopendridae
Original rank: species
Original genus: Scolopendra Linnaeus, 1758
Type locality: New Zealand
Synonym(s):
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. 73.
Distribution:
-- within Pacific: New Caledonia