NEW DISTRIBUTIONAL RECORDS FOR THE CENTIPEDE,SCOLOPENDRA HEROS (CHILOPODA: SCOLOPENDROMORPHA:SCOLOPENDRIDAE), IN ARKANSAS

摘要

The largest North American centipede, Scolopendra heros Girard is a widely ranging scolopendromorph found from western Arkansas and western Louisiana, southwestern Missouri, central and southern Kansas, and west through Oklahoma, Texas and the southeastern corner of Colorado to New Mexico and western Arizona in the United States and southward to Nayarit, Mexico (Shelley 2002; McAllister et al. 2003; Guarisco et al. 2007). Although the original type specimen of S. heros reported by Girard (1853) is lost, a neotype is available from Mt. Scott, Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge, Comanche County, Oklahoma (Chamberlin 1931; Shelley 2002).