Scolopendra canidens Newport, 1844
Scolopendra canidens Newport, 1844
Original description: Newport G. (1844). A list of the species of Myriapoda order Chilopoda contained in the cabinets of the British Museum with synoptic descriptions of forty-seven new species - Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 13: 94-101, see p. 98.
Order: Scolopendromorpha
Family: Scolopendridae
Original rank: species
Original genus: Scolopendra Linnaeus, 1758
Type locality: Egypt
Synonym(s):
- Scolopendra affinis Newport, 1844
- Scolopendra aralocaspia Kessler, 1876
- Scolopendra cyrenaica Verhoeff, 1908
- Scolopendra lopadusae Pirotta, 1878
- Scolopendra spinigera Newport, 1844
- Scolopendra oraniensis africana Attems, 1902
- Scolopendra dalmatica africana Verhoeff, 1891
- Scolopendra canidens puncticornis Brolemann, 1930
Subspecies:
Last taxonomic scrutiny: Lewis J.G.E. (2010). A key and annotated list of the Scolopendra species of the Old World with a reappraisal of Arthrorhabdus (Chilopoda: Scolopendromorpha: Scolopendridae) - International Journal of Myriapodology, 3: 83-122, see p. 99.
Distribution:
-- within Africa: Algeria; Egypt; Libya; Morocco; Tunisia
-- within Asia-Temperate: Iran; Turkey
-- within Europe: Italy
Notes: Lewis (2010) notes that male S. canidens and S. cretica are apparently indistinguishable.
