Scolopendra laeta flavipes Kraepelin

Thofern, Detlef, Dupérré, Nadine & Harms, Danilo, 2021, An annotated type catalogue of the centipedes (Myriapoda: Chilopoda) held in the Zoological Museum Hamburg, Zootaxa 4977 (1), pp. 1-103 : 74-75

126. Scolopendra laeta flavipes Kraepelin , 190­8

Kraepelin 1908: 126 (as Sc. laeta var. flavipes n. v.)

Type locality and specimens. Stat. 77, Yalgoo, im Innern, östlich der Champian Bay [in the interior, east of Champian Bay].

Dimensions. No data available.

Type material. Syntypes 15 ( ZMH-A0000631 , ZMH-A0009376-9389 ). AUSTRALIA: Western Australia, Yalgoo (station 77) [ca. 28°20’S, 116°40’E] .

Preservation. 1 jar: Label 1. Scolop. laeta var. flavipes Krpln Typus Yalgoo W.Austr. Coll. Michaelsen VI.08 (Kraepelin handwriting); Label 2. Hamb.S.W.Austral.Exp. 1905 77 Yalgoo 11. VII. (imprint) .

Old type catalogue. Weidner (1960), p. 71, No. 80. Syntypes 10, paratypes 7.

Taxonomic remarks. Kraepelin (1908) did not specify the number of specimens in his original description but Weidner (1960: 71) listed 10 syntypes from Yalgoo, east of Champion Bay, and 7 types from Day Dawn. We count 15 syntypes. Koch (1982) lists this taxon as a colour morph of S. laeta .

Additional material. There are syntypes from Yalgoo at the ZMB (catalog no. 4652) .

Collection remarks. The specimens were collected by Wilhelm Michaelsen during his expedition to Western Australia 1905.

Current systematic position. Junior synonym of Scolopendra laeta Haase, 1887 according to Koch (1982:

127).