Strigamia bothriopus 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 : 10

Strigamia bothriopus Wood, 1862

Synonym: Scolioplanes robustus Meinert, 1886 .

References for morphology: Meinert 1886 (sub Scolioplanes robustus , not Scolioplanes bothriopus ); Chamberlin 1912a (sub Linotaenia fulva ); Crabill 1954b.

Taxonomic notes. Described originally as a species of Strigamia , it was assigned variously to Linotaenia , Scolioplanes or Tomotaenia. It was definitely assigned to Strigamia by Crabill (1954b), who however emendated the name incorrectly as “ Strigamia bothriopa ”. Wood (1862, 1865) suspected that it could be identical to Geophilus rubens Say (see below, under “Excluded species”). Following Meinert (1886), who suspected that it could be identical with S. fulva , many authors synonymised S. bothriopus under S. fulva ( Bollman 1888a, 1893c; Chamberlin 1909, 1912a; Williams & Hefner 1928; Attems 1929; Johnson 1952), until Crabill (1954b) recognized that the two species are actually distinct.

Scolioplanes robustus was described originally by Meinert (1886) and maintained as a valid species for long time, also by Attems (1929). However, after the re-examination of the holotype, S. robustus was synonymized under S. fulva by Chamberlin (1912a), but under an erroneous concept of the latter that actually corresponds to S. bothriopus (see above); only Crabill (1954b) recognized S. robustus as probably identical to S. bothriopus .

Distribution: eastern part of North America, northwards to Wisconsin, New York State and Massachusetts, southwards to Georgia, westwards at least to Missouri and Arkansas. More western records need confirmation because of past confusion with other species, including S. fulva .