Species Ethmostigmus rubripes (Brandt, 1840)
- Scolopendra rubripes Brandt, J.F. 1840. Observations sure les espèces qui composent le genre Scolopendra, suivies des caractères des espèces qui se trouvent dans le Muséum zoologique de l'Academie des sciences de St. Pétersburg et de quelques coups d'oeil sur leur distribution géographique. Bulletin de l'Académie impériale des Sciences de St. Petersbourg 7(11): 148-160 [156].
- Scolopendra spinulosa Brandt, J.F. 1840. Observations sure les espèces qui composent le genre Scolopendra, suivies des caractères des espèces qui se trouvent dans le Muséum zoologique de l'Academie des sciences de St. Pétersburg et de quelques coups d'oeil sur leur distribution géographique. Bulletin de l'Académie impériale des Sciences de St. Petersbourg 7(11): 148-160 [156].
- Heterostoma fasciata Newport, G. 1845. Monograph of the class Myriapoda, order Chilopoda. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 19: 349-439 [417].
- Heterostoma flava Newport, G. 1845. Monograph of the class Myriapoda, order Chilopoda. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 19: 349-439 [417].
- Heterostoma crassipes Silvestri, F. 1894. Chilopodi e Diplopodi della Papuasia. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Genova 2 14(34): 619-659 [632].
- Ethmostigmus australianus Chamberlin, R.V. 1920. The Myriopoda of the Australian region. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard 64(1): 1-269 [20].
- Heterostoma rubripes grossipes Pocock, R.I. 1891. Notes on the synonymy of some species of Scolopendridae, with descriptions of new genera and species of the group. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 6(7): 51-68, 221-231 [58] [as Heterostoma rubripes var. grossipes Pocock, 1891].
Distribution
States
Australian Capital Territory, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia
IBRA
ACT, NSW, NT, Qld, SA, Tas, Vic, WA: Australian Alps (AA), Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Ben Lomond (BEL), 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), Flinders (FLI), Gascoyne (GAS), Gawler (GAW), Gibson Desert (GD), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Great Sandy Desert (GSD), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Great Victoria Desert (GVD), Hampton (HAM), Jarrah Forest (JF), Kanmantoo (KAN), King (KIN), Little Sandy Desert (LSD), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Mallee (MAL), Murray Darling Depression (MDD), Mitchell Grass Downs (MGD), Mount Isa Inlier (MII), Mulga Lands (ML), Murchison (MUR), Nandewar (NAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), 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 Coastal Plain (SCP), 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), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), 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
- Tasmania
- Victoria
- Western Australia
- Indonesia
- Papua New Guinea
- Solomon Islands
Oriental Region
- China (People's Republic)
Ecological Descriptors
Litter, predator, soil dweller, solitary, terrestrial, under bark.
General References
Archey, G. 1921. Notes on New Zealand Chilopoda. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 53: 181-195 [192] (as Ethmostigmus rubripes)
Attems, C.G. 1898. Myriopoden. pp. 505–516 in Semon, R. (ed.) Zoologische Forschungsreisen in Australien und dem Malayischen Archipelago. Jena. [509] (as Heterostoma rapax and Heterostoma rubripes)
Attems, C.G. 1930. Myriapoda. 2. Scolopendromorpha. Das Tierreich. Berlin : Walter de Gruyter & Co. Vol. Lief. 54 308 pp. [177, 179 figs 222-224] (as Ethmostigmus rubripes, also Ethmostigmus australianus)
Brölemann, H.W. 1912. The Myriapoda in the Australian Museum. Part I. Chilopoda. Records of the Australian Museum 9: 37-75 [44] (as Ethmostigmus rubripes)
Chamberlin, R.V. 1920. The Myriopoda of the Australian region. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard 64(1): 1-269 [22] (as Ethmostigmus rubripes)
Gray, J.E. 1844. List of the Specimens of Myriapoda in the Collection of the British Museum. London : E. Newman 127 pp. [6, 7] (Heterostoma fasciata 'Newport', Heterostoma scabiventris, Heterostoma squalidens, Heterostoma sulcicornis, Heterostoma megacephala, Heterostoma sulcidens)
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 [89] (as Heterostoma rubripes)
Koch, L.E. 1983. A taxonomic study of the centipede genus Ethmostigmus Pocock (Chilopoda: Scolopendridae: Otostigminae) in Australia. Australian Journal of Zoology 31: 835-849 [844 figs 1, 8, 14, 20, 21, 23] (as Ethmostigmus rubripes)
Köhlrausch, E. 1881. Gattungen und Arten der Scolopendriden. Archiv für Naturgeschichte 47: 50-132 [59] (Heterostoma megacephala and Heterostoma sulcidens)
Kraepelin, K. 1903. Revision der Scolopendriden. Mitteilungen aus dem Naturhistorischen Museum in Hamburg 20: 1-276 [161] (as Ethmostigmus rubripes)
Kraepelin, K. 1908. Scolopendridae. pp. 105-128 in Michaelsen, W. & Hartmeyer, R. (eds). Die Fauna Südwest-Australiens. Band 2, Lieferung 8. Jena : Gustav Fischer. [108] (as Ethmostigmus rubripes)
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 [8] (as Ethmostigmus rubripes)
McKeown, K.C. 1930. Centipedes and centipede bites. Australian Museum Magazine 4(2): 59-60 [60 figs] (Ethmostigmus rubripes, included a photograph of a specimen of this species, sent to the author at the Australian Museum—the bite of this specimen caused the death of a dog)
Meinert, F. 1885. Myriapoda Musei Havniensis. Part III. Chilopoda. Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra Dansk Naturhistorisk Forening i Kjøbenhavn 1884–1886: 100-150 [115] (Heterostoma fasciatum)
Ménez, A., Zimmerman, K., Zimmerman, S. & Heatwole, H. 1990. Venom apparatus and toxicity of the centipede Ethmostigmus rubripes (Chilopoda, Scolopendridae). Journal of Morphology 206: 303-312 [304] (as Ethmostigmus rubripes)
Newport, G. 1845. Monograph of the class Myriapoda, order Chilopoda. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 19: 349-439 [416, 417] (Heterostoma megacephala, Heterostoma sulcicornis, Heterostoma sulcidens)
Newport, G. 1856. Catalogue of the Myriapoda in the Collection of the British Museum. Part 1. Chilopoda. London : Taylor and Francis 96 pp. [67-71] (Heterostoma flava, Heterostoma megacephala, Heterostoma rapax, Heterostoma sulcicornis, Heterostoma sulcidens, Heterostoma spinulosa?)
Pocock, R.I. 1893. Report upon the Myriopoda of the 'Challenger' Expedition, with Remarks upon the Fauna of Bermuda. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (6) 11: 121-142, pl. 9 [129] (as Heterostoma rubripes)
Pocock, R.I. 1901. The Chilopoda or centipedes of the Australian continent. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7(8): 451-463 [459] (as Ethmostigmus rubripes)
Silvestri, F. 1894. Chilopodi e Diplopodi della Papuasia. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Genova 2 14(34): 619-659 [630, 632] (as Heterostoma rubripes; Papua New Guinea distribution)
Walckenaer, C.A. & Gervais, F.L.P. 1847. Histoire Naturelle des Insectes. Aptères. Tome 4. Myriapodes. Paris : Libraire Encyclopédique de Roret 620 pp. [246-248, 289] (Scolopendra squalidens, Heterostoma fasciatum, Heterostoma flava, Heterostoma megacephala, Heterostoma sulcicorne, Heterostoma sulcidens; China distribution)
History of changes
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