Strigamia epileptica Wood 1862

• Main Authors: Bonato, Lucio, Dányi, László, Socci, Antonio Augusto, Minelli, Alessandro
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• Published: Zenodo 2012
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Chilopoda; Geophilomorpha; Linotaeniidae; Strigamia; Strigamia epileptica; Canada; Greenland; British Columbia; Milton; Augusto; Pomona; Mercurio
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5613207; https://zenodo.org/record/5613207

Strigamia epileptica Wood, 1862 Synonyms: Scolioplanes imperialis Brölemann, 1896; Linotaenia rubelliana Chamberlin, 1904. References for morphology: Wood 1862, 1865; Brölemann 1896 (sub Scolioplanes imperialis ); Chamberlin 1904 (sub Linotaenia rubelliana ), 1912 b (sub Linotaenia laevipes ), 1954. Taxonomic notes. Described originally as a species of Strigamia , it was then assigned also to Linotaenia , Scolioplanes or Tomotaenia . Chamberlin (1912 b, 1954, 1963) considered S. epileptica as identical with two other species described by Wood in the same paper (Wood 1862), namely S. laevipes and S. parviceps , and adopted first S. laevipes and later S. parviceps as the valid name for the species. Conversely, Crabill (1954 a, 1962 a) suggested adopting S. epileptica as the valid name because S. parviceps is actually of uncertain taxonomic position (see below under “Uncertain species”), while he did not take into account S. laevipes . Subsequent catalogues followed either Chamberlin’s later opinion (Kevan 1983; Mercurio 2010) or Crabill’s (Hoffman 1995). We agree with Crabill’s proposal in selecting S. epileptica as the valid name of the species, because it remains uncertain whether the name S. parviceps was originally applied to the same species (see below), whereas S. laevipes is recognized here as a distinct species. Scolioplanes imperialis was described by Brölemann (1896) and Linotaenia rubelliana by Chamberlin (1904). Both were considered identical to S. epileptica by Chamberlin (1912 b), who confirmed this opinion after examining the holotype of S. epileptica (Chamberlin 1954, 1963), irrespective of the fact that he did not adopt S. epileptica as the valid name of the species (see above). Instead, Attems (1929) maintained both S. imperialis and L. rubelliana as distinct valid species, and Crabill (1962 a) considered them of uncertain identity. The synonymy is confirmed here for both species because their type specimens, based on the published descriptions (Brölemann 1896; Chamberlin 1904, 1963) are fully congruent with S. epileptica , also in some major diagnostic features of the latter including number of legs, aspect of pleuropretergite, shape of ultimate metasternite and arrangement of coxal pores. Distribution: most of the western part of North America, along the Rocky Mountains, between British Columbia and California. Published records from more eastern regions need confirmation, because of possible confusion with other species. : Published as part of Bonato, Lucio, Dányi, László, Socci, Antonio Augusto & Minelli, Alessandro, 2012, Species diversity of Strigamia Gray, 1843 (Chilopoda: Linotaeniidae): a preliminary synthesis, pp. 1-39 in Zootaxa 3593 on pages 13-14, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.214898 : {"references": ["Wood, H. C. (1862) On the Chilopoda of North America with a catalogue of all the specimens in the collection of the Smithsonian Institution. Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 5, 5 - 52.", "Brolemann, H. W. (1896) Liste de myriapodes des Etats-Unis et principalement de la Caroline du Nord faisant partie des collections de M. Eugene Simon. Annales de la Societe Entomologique de France, 65, 43 - 70.", "Chamberlin, R. V. (1904) New chilopods. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 56, 651 - 657.", "Wood, H. C. (1865) The Myriopoda of North America. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, N. S., 13, 137 - 248.", "Chamberlin, R. V. (1912 b) The Chilopoda of California. III. Pomona College Journal of Entomology, 4, 651 - 672.", "Chamberlin, R. V. (1954) Notes on the chilopod genera Linotaenia and Tomotaenia with description of a new Korynia. Entomological News, 65, 117 - 122.", "Chamberlin, R. V. (1963) Further observations on the chilopod genus Tomotaenia. Entomological News, 74, 88 - 90.", "Crabill, R. E. (1954 a) Concerning Tomotaenia and Paraplanes with the description of a new dignathodontid centipede from Missouri (Chilopoda: Geophilomorpha: Dignathodontidae). Canadian Entomologist, 86, 416 - 419.", "Crabill, R. E. (1962 a) A new interpretation of some troublesome dignathodontid species and genera (Chilopoda; Geophilomorpha). Entomological News, 73, 179 - 186.", "Kevan, D. K. McE. (1983) A preliminary survey of known and potentially Canadian and Alaskan centipedes (Chilopoda). Canadian Journal of Zoology, 61, 2938 - 2955.", "Mercurio, R. J. (2010) An annotated catalog of centipedes (Chilopoda) from the United States of America, Canada and Greenland (1758 - 2008). Xlibris, Milton Keynes, 560 pp.", "Hoffman, R. L. (1995) The centipeds (Chilopoda) of Virginia: a first list. Banisteria, 5, 20 - 32.", "Attems, C. (1929) Myriapoda. 1. Geophilomorpha. Das Tierreich 52. De Gruyter, Berlin, 388 pp."]}