Australian Biological Resources Study

Australian Faunal Directory

Species Otostigmus politus Karsch, 1881

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Species Otostigmus politus Karsch, 1881

Distribution

States

Queensland


Note that conversion of the original AFD map of states, drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones to IBRA and IMCRA regions may have produced errors. The new maps will be reviewed and corrected as updates occur. The maps may not indicate the entire distribution. See further details below.
IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)
drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones (map not available)

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

  • Australia
    • Queensland: NE coastal
  • Papua New Guinea
  • Solomon Islands

Ecological Descriptors

Litter, predator, soil dweller, solitary, terrestrial, under bark.

 

General References

Attems, C.G. 1898. Myriopoden. pp. 505–516 in Semon, R. (ed.) Zoologische Forschungsreisen in Australien und dem Malayischen Archipelago. Jena. [508] (Otostigmus polita; distribution)

Attems, C.G. 1930. Myriapoda. 2. Scolopendromorpha. Das Tierreich. Berlin : Walter de Gruyter & Co. Vol. Lief. 54 308 pp. [149] (as Otostigmus (Otostigmus) politus)

Chamberlin, R.V. 1920. The Myriopoda of the Australian region. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard 64(1): 1-269 [13]

Haase, E. 1887. Die Indisch-Australischen Myriopoden. Pt I. Chilopoden. Abhandlungen und Berichte des Königlichen Zoologischen und Anthropologische-Ethnographischen Museums zu Dresden 5: 1-118 [75]

Kraepelin, K. 1903. Revision der Scolopendriden. Mitteilungen aus dem Naturhistorischen Museum in Hamburg 20: 1-276 [109] (New Guinea distribution)

Kraepelin, K. 1916. Results of Dr. E. Mjöberg's Swedish scientific expedition to Australia 1910–1913. 4. Scolopendriden und Skorpione. Arkiv för Zoologi 10(2): 1-43 [5] (as Otostigmus cfr. politus; distribution)

Lewis, J.G.E. 2000. Variation in three centipede species of the genus Otostigmus and its bearing on species discrimination (Chilopoda; Scolopendromorpha; Scolopendridae). Journal of Natural History 34: 433-448 [436-438 figs 11-19] (as Otostigmus (O.) politus, distribution—Rennell Island, Solomon Islands)

Lewis, J.G.E. 2001. The scolopendrid centipedes in the collection of the Natural History Museum of Natural History in Sofia (Chilopoda: Scolopendromorpha: Scolopendridae). Historia Naturalis Bulgarica 13: 5-51 [31-34 figs 59-68] (as Otostigmus (O.) politus, distribution, synonomy)

 

History of changes

Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.
Published As part of group Action Date Action Type Compiler(s)
12-Feb-2010 (import)