Strigamia laevipes Wood, 1862

Bonato, Lucio, Dányi, László, Socci, Antonio Augusto & Minelli, Alessandro, 2012, Species diversity of Strigamia Gray, 1843 (Chilopoda: Linotaeniidae): a preliminary synthesis, Zootaxa 3593, pp. 1-39 : 16

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scientific name	Strigamia laevipes Wood, 1862
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Strigamia laevipes Wood, 1862 View in CoL *

References for morphology: Wood 1862, 1865.

Taxonomic notes. Described originally as a species of Strigamia View in CoL , it was cited variously under Linotaenia ¸ Scolioplanes View in CoL or Tomotaenia. Following Chamberlin (1912b), who considered S. laevipes View in CoL identical to S. epileptica View in CoL and S. parviceps , and adopted S. laevipes View in CoL as the name for this putatively single species, other specimens have been identified as S. laevipes View in CoL but they should be probably reassigned to S. epileptica ( Mercurio 2010) View in CoL . S. laevipes View in CoL is recognized here as a distinct species only tentatively. The original description is very incomplete, and the number of trunk segments together with the geographical provenance of the type material suggest that it could be identical to another species, perhaps S. bidens View in CoL (see Mercurio 2010).

Distribution: south-eastern part of North America, at least Georgia. Published records from other areas need confirmation, because of possible confusion with S. epileptica .