Scolopendra heros Girard, 1853

Cupul-Magaña, Fabio Germán, 2013, An annotated list of the centipedes (Chilopoda) in the National Collection of Arachnids, Instituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Addendum: Scutigeromorpha and Scolopendromorpha, Insecta Mundi 2013 (282), pp. 1-10 : 3

Scolopendra heros Girard, 1853

Scolopendra castaneiceps Wood, 1861

Scolopendra heros var. castaneiceps Wood, 1865

Scolopendra pernix Kohlrausch, 1881

Scolopendra heros var. prismatica Cragin, 1885

Scolopendra heros var. arizonensis Kraepelin, 1903

Scolopendra heros var. heros Attems, 1930

Scolopendra heros arizonensis Sandefer, 1998

Scolopendra heros castaneiceps Sandefer, 1998

Scolopendra heros heros Sandefer, 1998

Type locality (for neotype). USA: Mt. Scott, Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge, Comanche Country, Oklahoma ( NMNH: National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC).

Exemplars examined. Sonora: Álamos, municipality of Álamos, 12/VII/2006, 2 exs.

Geographical distribution. México, and USA ( Shelley 2002).

Distribution in México. Chihuahua, Coahuila, Colima, Sonora, Sinaloa, and Nayarit ( Shelley 2002; Cupul-Magaña 2010b).