Species Cormocephalus aurantiipes (Newport, 1844)

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Species Cormocephalus aurantiipes (Newport, 1844)

Scolopendra aurantiipes 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 [99].
Scolopendra subminiata 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 [100].
Cormocephalus obscurus Newport, G. 1845. Monograph of the class Myriapoda, order Chilopoda. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 19: 349-439 [421].
Cormocephalus miniatus Newport, G. 1845. Monograph of the class Myriapoda, order Chilopoda. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 19: 349-439 [423].
Rhombocephalus brevis Newport, G. 1845. Monograph of the class Myriapoda, order Chilopoda. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 19: 349-439 [426].
Rhombocephalus politus Newport, G. 1845. Monograph of the class Myriapoda, order Chilopoda. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 19: 349-439 [426].
Cormocephalus brevispinatus Koch, C.L. 1867. Beschreibungen neuer Arachniden und Myriapoden. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Königlichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien 17: 173-250 [248].
Cormocephalus marginatus Porat, C.O. von 1876. Om några exotiska Myriopoder. Bihang till Kungliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Handlingar 4(7): 1-48 [16].
Cormocephalus gracilis Köhlrausch, E. 1881. Gattungen und Arten der Scolopendriden. Archiv für Naturgeschichte 47: 50-132 [86].
Cormocephalus exiguus Meinert, F. 1885. Myriapoda Musei Havniensis. Part III. Chilopoda. Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra Dansk Naturhistorisk Forening i Kjøbenhavn 1884–1886: 100-150 [132].
Cormocephalus distinguendus 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 [61].
Scolopendra coeruleoviridis Murray, A. 1887. Economic Entomology. Aptera. London : South Kensington Museum Science Handbooks. [27].
Cormocephalus lamprus Chamberlin, R.V. 1920. The Myriopoda of the Australian region. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard 64(1): 1-269 [25].
Cormocephalus aurantiipes spinosus 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 [58].

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, 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, NT, Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Nullarbor (NUL), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Riverina (RIV), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

Australia
- New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
- Northern Territory: N Gulf, N coastal
- Queensland: Lake Eyre basin, N Gulf, NE coastal
- South Australia: Lake Eyre basin, Murray-Darling basin, S Gulfs, SE coastal, W plateau
- Victoria: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
- Western Australia: NW coastal, SW coastal, W plateau

Ecological Descriptors

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

General References

Attems, C.G. 1930. Myriapoda. 2. Scolopendromorpha. Das Tierreich. Berlin : Walter de Gruyter & Co. Vol. Lief. 54 308 pp. [74] (as Cormocephalus (Cormocephalus) aurantiipes, Cormocephalus violaceus distinguendus)

Brölemann, H.W. 1912. The Myriapoda in the Australian Museum. Part I. Chilopoda. Records of the Australian Museum 9: 37-75 [47, 49] (as Cormocephalus aurantiipes, Cormocephalus aurantiipes marginatus, Cormocephalus brevispinatus var. distinguendus, Cormocephalus brevispinatus sulcatus)

Chamberlin, R.V. 1920. The Myriopoda of the Australian region. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard 64(1): 1-269 [26, 27] (as Cormocephalus aurantiipes, Cormocephalus brevispinatus, Cormocephalus aurantiipes var. marginatus)

Fahlander, K. 1939. Chilopoden aus Australien und Tasmanien. Arkiv för Zoologi 31B(1): 1-4 [1] (Cormocephalus aurantiipes; distribution)

Gray, J.E. 1844. List of the Specimens of Myriapoda in the Collection of the British Museum. London : E. Newman 127 pp. [5, 6] (as Cormocephalus aurantiipes, Cormocephalus subminiatus)

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 [57, 60, 65] (as Cormocephalus aurantiipes, Cormocephalus aurantiipes spinosus, Cormocephalus subminiatus, Rhombocephalus brevis, Rhombocephalus politus)

Koch, L.E. 1983. Revision of the Australian centipedes of the genus Cormocephalus Newport (Chilopoda: Scolopendridae: Scolopendrinae). Australian Journal of Zoology 31: 799-833 [803 fig. 2] (Cormocephalus aurantiipes; distribution)

Köhlrausch, E. 1881. Gattungen und Arten der Scolopendriden. Archiv für Naturgeschichte 47: 50-132 [87, 93] (as Cormocephalus aurantiipes, Cormocephalus (Rhombocephalus) brevis, Cormocephalus (Rhombocephalus) politus)

Kraepelin, K. 1903. Revision der Scolopendriden. Mitteilungen aus dem Naturhistorischen Museum in Hamburg 20: 1-276 [197-199] (Cormocephalus aurantiipes, Cormocephalus brevispinatus, Cormocephalus brevispinatus var. distinguendus, Cormocephalus aurantiipes var. marginatus)