Scutigera coleoptrata (Linnaeus, 1758)

Dunlop, Jason A., Friederichs, Anja & Langermann, Jasmin, 2017, A catalogue of the scutigeromorph centipedes in the Museum fuer Naturkunde, Berlin, Zoosystematics and Evolution 93 (2), pp. 281-295 : 289

Scutigera coleoptrata (Linnaeus, 1758)

Material.

1 dry specimen; ZMB 90; "Carolin merid." [Central Carolina?, USA]; leg. Zimmerman (as S. forceps (Rafinesque,1820)). 1 dry specimen; unnumbered; “Castelnuovo” [many localities, mostly in Italy bear this name]; collector and date not recorded. 1 specimen; ZMB 1203; “Kreta” [Crete, Greece]; leg. von Oertzen. ZMB 1447 (legs only); “Triest” [Italy]; leg. Müller. ZMB 1449 (legs only); “Dalmatia” [Croatia]; leg. B. Novak. 1 specimen; ZMB 1453; "Matosinhos, Portugal"; collector and date not recorded. 2 specimens; ZMB 1822; “Dalmatia” [Croatia]; leg. Mehon; 1915. 2 specimens; ZMB 1832; "Corta [Mallorca]; det. Verhoeff. 1 specimen; ZMB 2396; “Coimbra” [Portugal]; leg. A. Möller. 4 specimens; ZMB 2603; "Canarische Inseln" [Canary Islands]; leg Hintz; 15.XII.1898.1 specimen, ZMB 2604; “Rovigno” [Croatia] Möbius. 1 specimen (without legs); ZMB 3845; "Canarische Inseln, La Palmas"; leg. Hintz, IV.1898. 3 specimens; ZMB 3846; "Sirmione am Gardasee" [Sirmione, Lake Garda, Italy]; leg. Verhoeff. 2 specimens; ZMB 3847; “Sirmione” [Italy]; leg. Verhoeff. 1 alcohol specimen; ZMB 3848; “Tenerife” [Canary Islands]; leg. Hastwig?. 3 specimens (as S. capensis (Templeton, 1843)); ZMB 4673 “Simonstown” [Simons Town, South Africa]; leg. Deutsche Südpolar-Expedition, 1903. 3 specimens; ZMB 13202; “Neapel” [Naples, Italy]; leg. Verhoeff. 1 specimen; ZMB 13719; Albena, Bulgaria; leg. D. Striebing, 10.VII.1984; det. M. Moritz, VIII.1989. 4 specimens; ZMB 13723; "Spanien, Calpe" [Calpe, Spain]; leg. Lüdecke, 30.VI.1993; det. Moritz, IV.1993. Unnumbered (legs only); ZMB 2587 “Tenerife” [Canary Islands]; Luckner? date uncertain. 1 specimen; unnumbered,"Bulgarien, Kap Kaliakra" [Bulgaria, Kaliakra]; leg. N. Jung; 17.VI.1975. 1 specimen; unnumbered; “Rovigno”, [Croatia]; leg. Morbins?; III-IV.1993. 2 specimens; unnumbered; locality uncertain; leg. Knin, [Croatia]. VII.1928; det. Schubert 1934. 1 specimen; unnumbered (as S. araneodes [sic]); "St. Catharina" [Santa Catarina Brazil]; collector and date not recorded. 1 specimen; unnumbered; “Gaula” [Madeira]; leg. H. Wendt; 15.V.1994. Numerous Verhoeff slides nrs. 1461-63, 1612, 2699-770, 2776-2780, 2789-90, 2803-08 (with what may be an unpublished subspecies name), 2809-11 (as S. forceps ), 2822-3; locality and collector uncertain.

Remarks.

With respect to the dry record from Carolina, this predominantly southern European (but also synanthropic species) is also known from the USA and several other places, although it is not entirely clear whether S. coleoptrata is native or introduced here. Most of the material is from southern Europe and the Canary Islands. The collectors Dirk Striebing, Sepp Lüdecke and Hella Wendt were all former staff members of the MfN.