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Species Orphnaeus brevilabiatus (Newport, 1845)

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Species Orphnaeus brevilabiatus (Newport, 1845)

Geophilus brevilabiatus Newport, G. 1845. Monograph of the class Myriapoda, order Chilopoda. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 19: 349-439 [436].
Orphnaeus lividus Meinert, F. 1870. Myriapoda Musei Havniensis. Bidragtil Myriapodernes Morphologi og Systematik; I. Geophili. Naturhistorisk Tidsskrift. Kjøbenhavn 3 7: 1-56 [19].
Orphnaeus fangaroka Saussure, H. de & Zehntner, L. 1902. Myriopoden aus Madagaskar und Zanzibar. Abhandlungen der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft 26: 425-460 [433].
Orya xanti Tömösváry, O. 1885. Myriopoda a Joanne Xantus in Asia orientali collecta. Enumeravit speciesque novas descripsit. Természetrajzi Füzetek 9: 63-72 [64].

Distribution

States

Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Cosmopolitan.

Introduced.

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)

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drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones (map not available)

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IBRA

WA: Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Esperance Plains (ESP), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Jarrah Forest (JF), Mallee (MAL), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Afrotropical Region

South Africa

Australian Region

Australia
- Western Australia: SW coastal
Fiji
French Polynesia
Hawaii
Indonesia
Marshall Islands
Solomon Islands

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. [158] (as Orphnaeus brevilabiatus; distribution)

Attems, C.G. 1928. The Myriopoda of South Africa. Annals of the South African Museum 26: 1-431 [124] (as Orphnaeus brevilabiatus Newp.; distribution)

Attems, C.G. 1929. Myriapoda. 1. Geophilomorpha. Das Tierreich, Lief. 52. Berlin : Walter de Gruyter & Co. 388 pp. [112] (as Orphnaeus brevilabiatus; distribution)

Chamberlin, R.V. 1920. The Myriopoda of the Australian region. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard 64(1): 1-269 [38] (as Orphnaeus brevilabiatus; 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 [111 pl. 6 fig. 117] (as Orphnaeus brevilabiatus)

Meinert, F. 1885. Myriapoda Musei Cantabrigiensis. Part 1. Chilopoda. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 23: 161-233 [231] (as Orphnaeus lividus)

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)
		02-Jul-2014	MODIFIED