Genus Otostigmus Porat, 1876

Museums

Regional Maps

• Otostigmus Porat, C.O. von 1876. Om några exotiska Myriopoder. Bihang till Kungliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Handlingar 4(7): 1-48 [18].
• Branchiotrema Köhlrausch, E. 1878. Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Scolopendriden. Journal des Museum Godeffroy, Hamburg 14: 51-74 pl. vi [70].

 

Distribution

States

Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

Extralimital distribution for the nominate subgenus only.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

Qld: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Channel Country (CHC), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Desert Uplands (DEU), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Gulf Plains (GUP), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Nandewar (NAN), NSW North Coast (NNC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Wet Tropics (WT)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Afrotropical Region

• Mauritius

Australian Region

• Australia
  • Queensland: NE coastal
• New Zealand
• Northern Mariana Islands
• Papua New Guinea
• Solomon Islands
• Tonga
• Western Samoa

Oriental Region

• India
• Indonesia
  • Kalimantan
  • Sumatra
• Malaysia
• Nepal
• Philippines

Palaearctic Region

• Canary Islands

General References

Lewis, J.G.E 1996. The type specimen and identity of the species described in the genus Otostigmus (subgenus Otostigmus) by R. I. Pocock in the collection of the Natural History Museum, London (Scolopendromorpha: Scolopendridae). Journal of Natural History 30: 823-834 (taxonomic review)

Lewis, J.G.E. 2000. Variation in three centipede species of the genus Otostigmus and its bearing on species discrimination (Chilopoda; Scolopendromorpha; Scolopendridae). Journal of Natural History 34: 433-448 (taxonomic review)

Lewis, J.G.E. 2001. The scolopendrid centipedes in the collection of the Natural History Museum of Natural History in Sofia (Chilopoda: Scolopendromorpha: Scolopendridae). Historia Naturalis Bulgarica 13: 5-51 (taxonomic review)

Lewis, J.G.E. 2002. A re-examination of 11 species of Otostigmus from the Indo-Australian region described by R. V. Chamberlin based on type specimens in the collection of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard (Chilopoda: Scolopendromorpha: Scolopendridae). Journal of Natural History 36: 1687-1706 (taxonomic review)

 

History of changes

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