Scolopendra crudelis, C. L. Koch, 1847: 170

Shelley, Rowland M., 2006, A chronological catalog of the New World species of Scolopendra L., 1758 (Chilopoda: Scolopendromorpha: Scolopendridae), Zootaxa 1253 (1), pp. 1-50 : 13

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https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.1253.1.1

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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15604181

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scientific name

Scolopendra crudelis
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crudelis C. L. Koch, 1847:170 View in CoL

(31 December ( Jeekel 1971:382, endnote 71; Van den Spiegel et al. 2002:156).

Holotype: not known to exist, not found in BMNH in 2005; type locality: St. Barthélemy, Lesser Antilles.

Original rank: species. Current rank and status: valid species ( Meinert 1886; Attems 1930; Bücherl 1942 a, 1974).

Anatomical illustrations: Koch (1863 b, pl. 77, fig. 158, pl. 78, figs. 159a–b).

Distribution: West Indies in general ( Attems 1930), though I do not know of a record from an island other than St. Barthélemy ( Bücherl 1942 a, 1974). Maps: none.

Remarks: Kraepelin (1903) and Brölemann (1909) regarded S. crudelis as a synonym of S. alternans Leach, 1815 .

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