Australian Biological Resources Study

Australian Faunal Directory

Species Scolopendra morsitans Linnaeus, 1758

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Species Scolopendra morsitans Linnaeus, 1758

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

 

Distribution

States

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


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

IBRA

ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Broken Hill Complex (BHC), Burt Plain (BRT), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Channel Country (CHC), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Coolgardie (COO), Cobar Peneplain (CP), Central Ranges (CR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Davenport Murchison Ranges (DMR), Darling Riverine Plains (DRP), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), 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), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

  • Australia
    • Australian Capital Territory
    • New South Wales
    • Northern Territory
    • Queensland
    • South Australia
    • Victoria
    • Western Australia

Ecological Descriptors

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

 

General References

Attems, C.G. 1928. The Myriopoda of South Africa. Annals of the South African Museum 26: 1-431 [91]

Attems, C.G. 1930. Myriapoda. 2. Scolopendromorpha. Das Tierreich. Berlin : Walter de Gruyter & Co. Vol. Lief. 54 308 pp. [39]

Brölemann, H.W. 1912. The Myriapoda in the Australian Museum. Part I. Chilopoda. Records of the Australian Museum 9: 37-75 [54]

Chamberlin, R.V. 1920. The Myriopoda of the Australian region. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard 64(1): 1-269 [29]

Gervais, M.P. 1837. Etudes pour servir à l'histoire naturelle des Myriapodes. Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Paris 2 7: 35-60 [50, 51] (Scolopendra morsitans, Scolopendra brandtiana)

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, C.L. 1863. Die Myriapoden. Getreu nach der Natur Abgebildet und Beschreiben. 2 volumes. Halle : H.W. Schmidt. [57, 58 figs 179, 180] (Scolopendra planipes, Scolopendra infesta)

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]

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 [83 figs 1, 4, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16] (distribution)

Köhlrausch, E. 1881. Gattungen und Arten der Scolopendriden. Archiv für Naturgeschichte 47: 50-132 [104] (Scolopendra morsitans and Scolopendra lopadusae)

Kraepelin, K. 1903. Revision der Scolopendriden. Mitteilungen aus dem Naturhistorischen Museum in Hamburg 20: 1-276 [250]

Kraepelin, K. 1908. Scolopendridae. pp. 105-128 in Michaelsen, W. & Hartmeyer, R. (eds). Die Fauna Südwest-Australiens. Band 2, Lieferung 8. Jena : Gustav Fischer. [123]

McKeown, K.C. 1930. Centipedes and centipede bites. Australian Museum Magazine 4(2): 59-60 [60] (remarked that this species, together with Ethmostigmus rubripes and Allotheura maculata, is the most common centipede sent to the Australian Museum for information and identification)

Meinert, F. 1885. Myriapoda Musei Cantabrigiensis. Part 1. Chilopoda. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 23: 161-233 [200]

Peters, W.C.H. 1862. Myriapoda. Tausendfüsser. Chilopoda. Naturwissenschaften Reise nach Mossambique: Myriapoden. 527-552 pp. [527, 529] (Scolopendra mossambica, Scolopendra brachypoda)

Porat, C.O. von 1872. Myriapoden Africae australis in Museo Regio Holmiensi. Pars I. Chilopoda. Öfversigt af Kongelige Vetenskaps-Akademiens Förhandlingar, Stockholm 9: 1135-1167 [1147] (Scolopendra leachii)

Porat, C.O. von 1876. Om några exotiska Myriopoder. Bihang till Kungliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Handlingar 4(7): 1-48 [11, 12] (Scolopendra platypus, Scolopendra longicornis, Scolopendra cognata)

Rainbow, W.J. 1897. The Insect fauna. In, The Atoll of Funafut, Ellice Group: it's Zoology, Botany, Ethnology and general Structure based on collections made by Mr Charles Hedley of the Australian Museum, Sydney, NSW. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 3: 89-102 [102] (Scolopendra platypus)

Saussure, H. de & Humbert, A. 1872. In: Mission Scientifique au Mexique et dans l'Amerique centrale, Ouvrages publié par Ordre du Ministre de l'Instruction publique. Paris : Recherches Zoologiques. [125-127] (Scolopendra carinipes, Scolopendra platypus, Scolopendra californica)

Saussure, H. de & Zehntner, L. 1902. Myriopoden aus Madagaskar und Zanzibar. Abhandlungen der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft 26: 425-460 [302] (Scolopendra angulipes, Scolopendra lineata)

Say, T. 1821. Descriptions of the Myriapodae of the United States. Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 2: 102-114 [109] (Scolopendra marginata)

Walckenaer, C.A. & Gervais, F.L.P. 1847. Histoire Naturelle des Insectes. Aptères. Tome 4. Myriapodes. Paris : Libraire Encyclopédique de Roret 620 pp. [262] (Scolopendra leachii, Scolopendra fulvipes, Scolopendra elegans, Scolopendra fabricii, Scolopendra tigrina, Scolopendra Formosa, Scolopendra tuberculidens, Scolopendra erythrocephala, Scolopendra bilineata, Scolopendra angulipes, Scolopendra richardsoni, Scolopendra tongana, Scolopendra marginata, Scolopendra brandtiana, Scolopendra platypus, Scolopendra platypoides, Scolopendra limbate, Scolopendra varia)

Wood, H.C. 1862. On the Chilopoda of North America, with a catalogue of all of the specimens in the collection of the Smithonian Institute. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 2(5): 2-52 [13] (Scolopendra pella, Scolopendra porphyrotiania, Scolopendra modesta, Scolopendra compressipes)

Wood, H.C. 1865. The Myriapoda of North America. Transactions of the Australian Entomological Society 2(13): 137-248 [161] (Scolopendra morsitans)

 

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)
12-Feb-2010 (import)