Species Geophilus concolor Gervais, 1847

Museums

Regional Maps

• Geophilus concolor Gervais, F.L.P. in Walckenaer, C.A. & Gervais, F.L.P. 1847. Histoire Naturelle des Insectes. Aptères. Tome 4. Myriapodes. Paris : Libraire Encyclopédique de Roret 620 pp. [320].

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NSW, Qld, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), NSW South Western Slopes (NSS), Riverina (RIV), 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
  • New South Wales: Murray-Darling basin, SE coastal
  • Queensland: NE coastal
  • Western Australia: SW coastal

Ecological Descriptors

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

 

General References

Attems, C.G. 1929. Myriapoda. 1. Geophilomorpha. Das Tierreich, Lief. 52. Berlin : Walter de Gruyter & Co. 388 pp. [321] (Geophilus concolor listed as species inquirendae)

Chamberlin, R.V. 1920. The Myriopoda of the Australian region. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard 64(1): 1-269 [53] (as Geophilus (?) concolor)

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 [108 pl. 6 fig. 113] (Geophilus concolor; distribution)

Pocock, R.I. 1901. The Chilopoda or centipedes of the Australian continent. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7(8): 451-463 [461] (as Necrophloephagus concolor; distribution)

Walckenaer, C.A. & Gervais, F.L.P. 1847. Histoire Naturelle des Insectes. Aptères. Tome 4. Myriapodes. Paris : Libraire Encyclopédique de Roret 620 pp. [320] (Geophilus concolor; distribution)

 

History of changes

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