Australian Biological Resources Study

Australian Faunal Directory

Species Otostigmus astenus (Köhlrausch, 1881)

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Species Otostigmus astenus (Köhlrausch, 1881)

Distribution

States

Queensland


Extra Distribution Information

Carolines, Ellice Island, Seychelles, West Timor.


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

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

Australian Region

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

Oriental Region

  • Indonesia
  • Philippines

Ecological Descriptors

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

 

General References

Attems, C.G. 1930. Myriapoda. 2. Scolopendromorpha. Das Tierreich. Berlin : Walter de Gruyter & Co. Vol. Lief. 54 308 pp. [143 fig. 174] (as Otostigmus (Otostigmus) astenus; overseas distribution)

Brölemann, H.W. 1895. Mission scientifique de M. Ch. Alluaud aux Iles Séchelles-Myriapods. Mémoires de la Société Zoologique de France 8: 518-538 [527] (Otostigmus orientalis)

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 [73] (Otostigma orientale)

Kraepelin, K. 1903. Revision der Scolopendriden. Mitteilungen aus dem Naturhistorischen Museum in Hamburg 20: 1-276 [114 fig. 61] (as Otostigmus astenus)

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 [4] (as Otostigmus astenus; distribution)

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 [438-441 figs 20-30] (as Otostigmus (O.) astenus, distribution—Rennell Island, Solomon Islands and New Britain, New Guinea)

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 [21-22 fig 37] (as Otostigmus (O.) astenus, distribution, synonomy)

Silvestri, F. 1894. Chilopodi e Diplopodi della Papuasia. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Genova 2 14(34): 619-659 [628] (Otostigma discretum)

 

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)