Scutigera linceci (Wood, 1867)

Cupul-Magaña, Fabio Germán, 2010, An annotated list of the centipedes (Chilopoda) in the National Collection of Arachnids, Instituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Insecta Mundi 2010 (125), pp. 1-10 : 2

Scutigera linceci (Wood, 1867)

Type locality. USA, Texas.

Exemplars examined. Chiapas: selva Lacandona, municipality of Ocosingo, 15/VII/ 2004, 159 m elevation (elev.), 16 o 45.586’ N- 91º 00.292’ W, collector (coll.) J. L. Castelo, 1 exemplar (ex.), (new state record).

Geographical distribution. Costa Rica, Cuba, El Salvador, Grenada, Guatemala, Honduras, México, Nicaragua, Panama, and USA ( Würmli 1973; Würmli and Negrea 1977; Edgecombe and Cupul- Magaña 2008).

Distribution in México. Chiapas, Guerrero, Jalisco, Michoacán, Oaxaca, and Veracruz ( Edgecombe and Cupul-Magaña 2008).

Remarks. No type specimen is known for this species, originally described in Cermatia Leach, 1814 . Its identity will remain uncertain until a type is discovery or designated. As the Mexican samples differ from the widely introduced, Scutigera coleoptrata (Linnaeus, 1758) , I follow Würmli (1973) and Würmli and Negrea (1977) in assigning this form to S. linceci , but other species of Scutigera have been described from the southwestern United States – Texas ( S. buda Chamberlin, 1944 ), México ( S. tancitarona Chamberlin, 1942 and S. poicila Chamberlin, 1944 ), and Guatemala ( S. chichivaca Chamberlin, 1944 )–. If any of these species are valid, they surely range southward for into México, and conceivably, some or all of the Mexican records of S. linceci refer to one or more of these other species.