Scolopendra subspinipes subspinipes Leach, 1815


Scolopendra subspinipes subspinipes 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. 383.

Order: Scolopendromorpha

Original rank: species

Family: Scolopendridae

Original genus: Scolopendra Linnaeus, 1758.

Type locality: not designated

Synonym(s):

Last taxonomic scrutiny: Chao J.-L., Chang H.-W. (2003).The scolopendromrph centipedes (Chilopoda) of Taiwan - African Invertebrates, 44(1): 1-11, see p. 7.

Notes: Records from the America, Africa and the islands of the Indian and Pacific Oceans are probably introductions.