Species Scolopendra laeta Haase, 1887

Museums

Regional Maps

• Scolopendra laeta 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 [51].
• Scolopendra laeta viridis Kraepelin, K. 1908. Scolopendridae. pp. 105-128 in Michaelsen, W. & Hartmeyer, R. (eds). Die Fauna Südwest-Australiens. Band 2, Lieferung 8. Jena : Gustav Fischer. [126] [as Scolopendra laeta var. viridis].
• Scolopendra laeta fasciata Kraepelin, K. 1908. Scolopendridae. pp. 105-128 in Michaelsen, W. & Hartmeyer, R. (eds). Die Fauna Südwest-Australiens. Band 2, Lieferung 8. Jena : Gustav Fischer. [126] [as Scolopendra laeta var. fasciata].
• Scolopendra laeta flavipes Kraepelin, K. 1908. Scolopendridae. pp. 105-128 in Michaelsen, W. & Hartmeyer, R. (eds). Die Fauna Südwest-Australiens. Band 2, Lieferung 8. Jena : Gustav Fischer. [126] [as Scolopendra laeta var. flavipes].

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Esperance Plains (ESP), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Finke (FIN), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), 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), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), New England Tablelands (NET), Northern Kimberley (NK), 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 Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Simpson Strzelecki Dunefields (SSD), Stony Plains (STP), Sturt Plateau (STU), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tanami (TAN), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Warren (WAR), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

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

Ecological Descriptors

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

 

General References

Attems, C.G. 1930. Myriapoda. 2. Scolopendromorpha. Das Tierreich. Berlin : Walter de Gruyter & Co. Vol. Lief. 54 308 pp. [25 fig. 40] (Scolopendra laeta var. laeta)

Brölemann, H.W. 1912. The Myriapoda in the Australian Museum. Part I. Chilopoda. Records of the Australian Museum 9: 37-75 [60]

Chamberlin, R.V. 1920. The Myriopoda of the Australian region. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard 64(1): 1-269 [31]

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

Harvey, M.S. & Waldock, J.M. 1991. Ecological survey of Abydos-Woodstock Reserve, Western Australia. 6. Arachnid and myriapod fauna. Records of the Western Australian Museum Suppl. 37: 126-133 [133] (distribution)

Koch, L.E. 1982. Taxonomy of the centipede Scolopendra laeta Haase (Chilopoda: Scolopendridae) in Australia. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 76: 125-140 [126-133 figs 1-5] (Scolopendra laeta var. flavipes as colour form A(A2), Scolopendra laeta var. fasciata as colour form B; Scolopendra laeta var. viridis as colour form E; distribution)

Koch, L.E. 1983. Morphological characters of Australian scolopendrid centipedes, and the taxonomy and distribution of Scolopendra morsitans Linnaeus (Chilopoda: Scolopendridae: Scolopendrinae). Australian Journal of Zoology 31: 79-91 [79 figs 2, 5, 9, 11, 13, 15]

Kraepelin, K. 1903. Revision der Scolopendriden. Mitteilungen aus dem Naturhistorischen Museum in Hamburg 20: 1-276 [235]

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 [16]

Pocock, R.I. 1901. The Chilopoda or centipedes of the Australian continent. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7(8): 451-463 [454]

 

History of changes

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