Species Cormocephalus rubriceps (Newport, 1843)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Scolopendra rubriceps Newport, G. 1843. Fauna of New Zealand. 270 in Dieffenbach, E. (ed.). Travels in New Zealand: with contributions to the geography, geology, botany and natural history of that country. London : John Murray Vol. 2. [270].

 

Distribution

States

Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

ACT, NSW, Qld, SA, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Australian Capital Territory: Murray-Darling basin
  • New South Wales: SE coastal
  • Queensland: NE coastal
  • South Australia: Murray-Darling basin
  • Western Australia: SW coastal

Ecological Descriptors

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

 

General References

Archey, G. 1921. Notes on New Zealand Chilopoda. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 53: 181-195 [193] (as Cormocephalus rubriceps)

Archey, G. 1936. Revision of the Chilopoda of New Zealand. Part 1. Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum 2(1): 43-70 [66] (as Cormocephalus rubriceps)

Attems, C.G. 1930. Myriapoda. 2. Scolopendromorpha. Das Tierreich. Berlin : Walter de Gruyter & Co. Vol. Lief. 54 308 pp. [54, 79] (as Cormocephalus (Cormocephalus) rubriceps rubriceps)

Chamberlin, R.V. 1920. The Myriopoda of the Australian region. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard 64(1): 1-269 [127] (as Cormocephalus rubriceps)

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

Koch, L.E. 1983. Revision of the Australian centipedes of the genus Cormocephalus Newport (Chilopoda: Scolopendridae: Scolopendrinae). Australian Journal of Zoology 31: 799-833 [820 figs 6, 17] (as Cormocephalus rubriceps; distribution)

Köhlrausch, E. 1881. Gattungen und Arten der Scolopendriden. Archiv für Naturgeschichte 47: 50-132 [91] (as Cormocephalus rubriceps)

Kraepelin, K. 1903. Revision der Scolopendriden. Mitteilungen aus dem Naturhistorischen Museum in Hamburg 20: 1-276 [198] (as Cormocephalus rubriceps)

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 [11] (as Cormocephalus rubriceps)

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] (as Scolopendra rubriceps)

Newport, G. 1845. Monograph of the class Myriapoda, order Chilopoda. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 19: 349-439 [419] (as Cormocephalus rubriceps)

Newport, G. 1856. Catalogue of the Myriapoda in the Collection of the British Museum. Part 1. Chilopoda. London : Taylor and Francis 96 pp. [72] (as Cormocephalus rubriceps)

Pocock, R.I. 1893. Report upon the Myriopoda of the 'Challenger' Expedition, with Remarks upon the Fauna of Bermuda. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (6) 11: 121-142, pl. 9 [128] (as Cormocephalus rubriceps)

Walckenaer, C.A. & Gervais, F.L.P. 1847. Histoire Naturelle des Insectes. Aptères. Tome 4. Myriapodes. Paris : Libraire Encyclopédique de Roret 620 pp. [274] (as Cormocephalus rubriceps)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
		12-Feb-2010	(import)