Species Allothereua maculata (Newport, 1844)

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Species Allothereua maculata (Newport, 1844)

Cermatia maculata 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 [96].
Cermatia latreillei Newport, G. 1845. Monograph of the class Myriapoda, order Chilopoda. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 19: 349-439 [359].

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

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

NSW, Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Carnarvon (CAR), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

Australia
- New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
- Queensland: Murray-Darling basin
- South Australia: S Gulfs
- Victoria: SE coastal
- Western Australia: NW coastal, SW coastal
Papua New Guinea

Ecological Descriptors

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

General References

Attems, C.G. 1911. Myriopoda exkl. Scolopendridae. pp. 147-165 in Michaelsen, W. & Hartmeyer, R. (eds). Die Fauna Südwest-Australiens. Jena : Gustav Fisher Vol. 3, Lief. 6. [150] (as Scutigera maculata; distribution)

Brölemann, H.W. 1912. The Myriapoda in the Australian Museum. Part I. Chilopoda. Records of the Australian Museum 9: 37-75 [37 figs 1-3] (as Scutigera maculata; distribution)

Chamberlin, R.V. 1920. The Myriopoda of the Australian region. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard 64(1): 1-269 [80] (as Allotheura maculata)

Daday, E. 1891. Myriapoda extranea collectionis zoologicae Universitatis Heidelbergensis. Természetrajzi Füzetek 14: 135-154 [192] (as Scutigera maculata; distribution)

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 [23 pl. 2 fig. 36] (as Scutigera maculata; distribution)

Harvey, M.S. & Waldock, J.M. 1991. Ecological survey of Abydos-Woodstock Reserve, Western Australia. 6. Arachnid and myriapod fauna. Records of the Western Australian Museum Suppl. 37: 126-133 [133] (as Allothereua maculata; distribution)

McKeown, K.C. 1930. Centipedes and centipede bites. Australian Museum Magazine 4(2): 59-60 [60] (as Allotheura maculata; emarked that this species, together with Ethmostigmus rubripes and Scolopendra morsitans, is the most common centipede sent to the Australian Museum for information and identification)

Newport, G. 1845. Monograph of the class Myriapoda, order Chilopoda. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 19: 349-439 [359] (as Cermatia maculata; distribution)

Pocock, R.I. 1898. Report on the centipedes and millipedes obtained by Dr Willey in the Loyalty Islands, New Britain and elsewhere. pp. 59-68 in Willey, A. (ed.). Zoological Results based on material from New Britain, New Guinea, Loyalty Islands and elsewhere, collected during the years 1895, 96 and 97 (Part 1). Cambridge : Publisher unknown. [60] (as Scutigera maculata; Papua New Guinea distribution)

Pocock, R.I. 1901. The Chilopoda or centipedes of the Australian continent. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7(8): 451-463 [451] (as Scutigera maculata; distribution)

Verhoeff, K.W. 1925. Results of Dr E. Mjöberg's Swedish Scientific Expedition to Australia 1910–1913. 39. Chilopoda. Arkiv för Zoologi 17(3): 1-62 [15 fig. 16] (as Allotheura maculata; distribution)