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).
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Scolopendra laeta laeta Haase, 1887.

Original description: Haase E. (1887). Die Indisch-Australischen Myriopoden. Pt. I. Chilopoden - Abhandlungen und Berichte des Königlichen Zoologischen und. Anthropologisch- Ethnographischen Museums zu Dresden, 5: 1-118, see p. 51.

Order: Scolopendromorpha

Original rank: species

Family: Scolopendridae

Original genus: Scolopendra Linnaeus, 1758.

Type locality: Australia

Last taxonomic scrutiny: Koch L.E. (1982).Taxonomy of the centipede Scolopendra laeta Haase (Chilopda: Scolopendridae) in Australia - Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society of London , 76: 125-140, see p. 125.

Distribution:

-- within Asia-Tropical: Nepal

Notes: L. E. Koch (1982 - Zool. J. Linn. Soc., 76: 125) distinguished five intraspecific forms (A-E) based on the colour pattern. Records from Philippines and Martinique are dubious.