Otostigmus scabricauda Humbert & Saussure 1870
Creators: name: Chagas-Júnior, Amazonas
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2012
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Chilopoda
Scolopendromorpha
Scolopendridae
Otostigmus
Otostigmus scabricauda

description: Otostigmus scabricauda (Humbert & Saussure, 1870)
Type locality. Rio de Janeiro, state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Brazilian published records. Amazonas. Manaus. Pará. Rio Tocantins, Serra Norte and Carajás (Schileyko, 2002) and Amapá. Serra do Navio. Rondônia. Without specific locality. Mato Grosso. Terenos [Terrenos]. Mato Grosso do Sul. Miranda [Agachi]. Goiás. Cana Brava. Rio de Janeiro. Rio de Janeiro and Nova Iguaçu. Paraná. Piraí do Sul, Londrina, Palmeira, União da Vitória and Ilha do Mel. Santa Catarina. Joinville (Bücherl, 1974).
New records. Mato Grosso. Barra do Tapirapé, 22.xi.1940 (MNRJ). Espírito Santo. Rebio Sooretama, 19–20.x.2003, Expedição Arachne; Estação Biológica de Santa Lúcia, Santa Teresa, 15–19.x.2003, D. Almeida, R. Baptista, A. Giupponi, A. Mendes & D. Pedroso (MNRJ); Estação Biológica de Santa Lúcia, Santa Teresa, 24.iii.1940, A. Ruschi (MNRJ). Rio de Janeiro. Rio de Janeiro (Humaita, E. Wienskoski (MNRJ); Jacarépagua (MNRJ 57949); Jardim Botânico, Fundos do Grotão, 23.ii.2004, Caetano (MNRJ); Horto Florestal, 18.xii.1998, A. Giupponi (MNRJ 15069); Floresta da Tijuca, 21.i.2005, R. Baptista (MNRJ)); Mangaratiba, reserva Ecológica Rio das Pedras, 29–31.xi.2007, A. Giupponi & D. Pedroso (MNRJ 15175); Guapimirim, 04–07.vii.1996, R. Pinto da Rocha & R. Bérnils (MZSP); Cachoeira de Macacu, 8–12.xii.2001, A. Giupponi, A. González & D. Pedroso (MNRJ); Barra de São João, 24.iii.2003, Expedição Arachne (MNRJ 15236) and Santa Maria Madalena, Parque Nacional do Desengano, 23–25.iii.1998, A. Kury, R. Baptista & A. Giupponi (MNRJ). São Paulo. Apiaí, PETAR, 30.xii.2002, B. Buzatto (MNRJ 15228); Cubatão, 02.xii.2004, MBS (MNRJ) and Cananéia, Ilha do Cardoso, xii.2004, E. Wienskoski (MNRJ). Paraná. Antonina, 13.i.2007, A. Meier (MNRJ).
Remarks. This is one of the oldest names in Otostigmus. It was described by Humbert and Saussure (1870) in the genus Branchiostoma Newport, 1845 and transferred to Branchiotrema Kohlrausch, 1878 by Kohlrausch (1881). Pocock (1896) described a new genus Parotostigmus to include a new species, Parotostigmus denticulatus, from Mexico and eight species of Otostigmus from South America, O. scabricauda included. Since Pocock (1896) had not proposed a type species for Parotostigmus, Attems (1928) designated O. scabricauda as the type species of the subgenus. Otostigmus scabricauda is widely distributed in the coastal areas of Brazil (Figure 38), however it has also been recorded for inland regions of the country and from Colombia, Peru and Ecuador (Bücherl, 1974) and Guatemala (Attems, 1930).
description: Published as part of Chagas-Júnior, Amazonas, 2012, The centipede genus Otostigmus Porat in Brazil: Description of three new species from the Atlantic Forest; a summary and an identification key to the Brazilian species of this genus (Chilopoda, Scolopendromorpha, Scolopendridae, Otostigminae), pp. 1-28 in Zootaxa 3280 on page 15, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.211446