Scolopendra spinosissima sensu Kraepelin 1903
Creators: name: Doménech, Carles
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Chilopoda
Scolopendromorpha
Scolopendridae
Scolopendra
Scolopendra spinosissima

description: Scolopendra spinosissima Kraepelin, 1903
Figs 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 A, C, E, 6, 8 E, Table 1
Scolopendra subspinipes var. spinosissima Kraepelin, 1903: 262–263.
Scolopendra spinosissima: Attems 1930: 31–32, fig. 44 (transcription, illustration; specimen unidentified); Lewis 2010: 92, 110, fig. 18 (in keys); Kronmüller and Lewis 2015: 269–278, fig. 2 A (not type); Doménech et al. 2018: 401–427, table 4, figs 3 A, B (not types), 4 (current paralectotype 3), and 15 (voucher, not type); Acuña et al. 2021: 417–419, figs 1, 2 (not type).
Diagnosis.
Colouration dark red to brownish. Antennae reaching posterior border of T 3, rarely T 4; with 19 antennal articles, basal four glabrous. Paramedian sutures on tergites highly variable in TT 1–7, in TT 8–20 complete. Paramedian sutures on sternite incomplete in SS 2–20. Free coxopleuron edge not extending beyond the T 21 posterior edge. Coxopleural process moderately long and not inflected with coxopleuron, forming together an angle of ~ 120 °. Coxopleural process with one AP and one smaller dorsal SAP, rarely with an extra ventral SAP. UL prefemur with single spine tipping long spinous processes disposed in VL: 1, V: 2, VM: 2, M: 1, DM: 2 and SP: 1. Penis, gonopods, and secondary sexual characters in males absent.
Lectotype
(new designation). Philippines • 1 unsexed adult; Luzon Island, Manila; 1902; H. W. Brölemann leg.; “ Scolopendra subspinipes Leach. var. spinosissima Krpln. ex Typis. Mus. Paris. [unreadable]. VI. 03. Manila ”, “ Scolop. subspinipes Leach. var. spinosissima Krpln. ex Typis. Mus. Paris. VI. 03. Manila ”, “ Scolopendra subspinipes spinosissima Kraepelin [red label fixed in jar] ”; ZMH - A 0000633. Paralectotypes. Philippines • 1 ♂, 1 ♀, 1 unsexed; Luzon Island, Quezón Province, Dolores; same collection data as for the lectotype; “ Scolop. subspinipes Leach. var. spinosissima Krpln. Mus. Paris. 30. VI. 03. Camarines. Philippinen ”; ZMH - A 00016058 to A 00016060.
Type locality.
Since a lectotype is now designated, Manila, Luzon Island, Philippines (and not just Philippines) is the current type locality (Figs 1 C, 2 B, C) (ICZN 1999: Art. 73.2. 3, 76.2; Kraepelin 1903).
Type depository
(new data). All type material is deposited in the collection of ZMH, Hamburg (Germany).
Legitum
(new data). H. W. Brölemann, 1902.
Distribution.
Philippines, endemic. Known from the islands of Luzon, Cebu, Negros, Guimaras, and Panay (Fig. 1 C).
Current rank and status.
Accepted species.
Lectotype redescription
(variation of paralectotypes given in parentheses). Body length reaching 147 mm.
Live specimens dark red to brownish with cephalic plate and TT 8–11 usually darker. Antennae and coxopleuron orange. Legs reddish to yellowish orange. Coxosternal surface and SS pale yellow (Fig. 1 A, B).
Antennae reaching posterior border on T 3 (T 4 in paralectotype 1), with 19 articles (17–20 in paralectotypes 1 and 2), the basal four glabrous dorsally and ventrally (Fig. 3 A). Cephalic plate with four ocelli in each side. Surface covered by dispersed small puncta allocating a short sensillum each; median sulcus absent. Posterior part of cephalic plate without paramedian sulci, overlapping the anterior margin of T 1 (Fig. 3 A). Coxosternite surface essentially smooth, counting with few isolated and less deep puncta; median suture absent (Fig. 3 B, C). Article 2 of second maxillary telopodite with spur (Fig. 3 C). Forcipula surface covered by dispersed small puncta. Left tarsungulum lost. Forcipular trochanteroprefemoral process with denticles in two groups, apically with two teeth on the right and three on the left, and proximally, one tooth on the right and two teeth on the left (a total of 2–5 in paralectotypes). Tooth-plates longer than wide, with small dispersed puncta and 7 + 8 teeth divided in two groups (5 + 5 in paralectotype 1). Tooth-plate with straight, transverse basal suture (Fig. 3 C; Table 1).
Spiracles positioned in segments 3, 5, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18 and 20, triangular in form and tri-valved (Fig. 3 D). Tergite surface with shallow, small, and more dispersed puncta compared to the cephalic plate (Fig. 4 A). Paramedian sutures of tergites faint and variable; in paralectotype sutures on T 1 and T 21 absent, T 2 incomplete posteriorly, T 3, T 5, and T 7 incomplete posteriorly and anteriorly, T 4, T 6, and TT 8–20 complete (see Table 1 for paralectotypes). Complete margination starting on T 10 (on T 12 in paralectotype 1). Tergite of ultimate leg-bearing segment with disperse and non-deep puncta, without depression or sutures; posterior margin rounded. Ratio of width: length of tergite of ultimate leg-bearing segment 1.14: 1. Sternite surfaces essentially smooth, with dispersed, small, shallow puncta. Paramedian sutures in S 1 and S 21 absent; in SS 2–20 incomplete and confined to proximal 10–25 % and distal 5–10 % of sternite length (see Table 1 for paralectotypes; Fig. 4 B). Space between sutures sometimes weakly depressed. Sternite of ultimate leg-bearing segment with sides converging posteriorly (Fig. 4 C); surface without depressions or sutures.
Coxopleuron with numerous coxal pores; reaching but excluding spines of the coxopleural process, not extending beyond T 21 posterior margin of T 21. Free edge on coxopleuron moderately long, with straight dorsal and ventral margins. Posterodorsal margin of coxopleuron not inflected into dorsal margin of coxopleural process, forming both margins at ~ 120 ° angle (Figs 4 C, D, 5 A). Coxopleural process moderately long, with isolated small pores and with two or three distal spines, two on right (one each AP and smaller dorsal SAP) and three on left (an additional minute spine in ventral SAP; Fig. 4 D). Lateral or dorsal spines absent. Pore-free area extending ventrally 30 % of length from proximal part of coxopleural process to margin of sternite of the ultimate leg-bearing segment (Figs 4 C, 5 A).
All legs without tibial spurs. Surface with shallow, dispersed, small puncta allocating a short sensillum each. One tarsal spur on legs 1–19 or 20, right and left legs, respectively (all paralectotypes with spur on legs 1–20). UL long, slender, with length ratios prefemur and femur = 1.2: 1, femur and tibia = 1.07: 1, tibia and tarsus 2 = 2: 1; tarsus 1 and tarsus 2 = 1.45: 1 (Fig. 4 E). Prefemora flattened dorsally, with long wider base processes located backwards at 45 ° angle with respect to the prefemur. Spines of the spinous processes slightly curved backwards. Prefemoral spinous processes formula: VL: 1, V: 2, VM: 2, M: 1, DM: 2 (Figs 4 E, 5 C, E), (in paralectotype 3, proximal spine in VM position in right prefemur is absent (preserving the prefemoral process); Doménech et al. 2018: fig. 4). Prefemoral corner process slightly longer and with a narrow base in respect to other prefemoral processes, ending with a single non-curved spine (Figs 4 E, 5 C, E). Tarsus 1 partially lost in left UL (Fig. 4 E).
Genitalia in the lectotype and paralectotype 1 retracted. In paralectotypes 2 and 3 well-developed (Fig. 6 A, B, respectively), partially retracted, reaching further than the distance between posterior margin of ULBS sternite and distal part of the coxopleural process. The genital segment sternite 1 rounded, convex posteriorly, with a median suture. Tergite of the genital segment without small setae. In male paralectotype 3 (Fig. 6 B) genital segment 2 is small, horseshoe-shaped, with small shallow puncta; penis, gonopods, and secondary sexual characters absent.
description: Published as part of Doménech, Carles, 2024, Type designation and redescription of Scolopendra spinosissima Kraepelin, 1903 (Scolopendromorpha, Scolopendridae), with remarks on related taxa, pp. 311-334 in ZooKeys 1215 on pages 311-334, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1215.129410