Table 5.

Geographical variation in several populations of Scolopendra morsitans in Old World territory including Australia. ? insufficient data.

Character	India3	Burma1	Indochina1,2	Malay Archipelago1,2	Philippines1	East Asia1,6	Australia5	Africa2,4
Number of antennal articles	19–20	18–22	20–21	18–20	17–19	18–20	17–23	17–21
Number of glabrous articles	6–9	6–7	5	6–7	6–7	5–7?	3–8	5–7
Teeth on tooth-plate	5	4–5	3–7	4–5	4–5	5	3–6	5
First tergite with complete paramedian sutures	2	3	4–5	2–3	2–3	3	2–4	2–4
First tergite with margination	7–17	6–17	5–14	6–13	12–13	10–14	5	2–7 (15)
Tergite surface	smooth	smooth	smooth	smooth	smooth	smooth	smooth	smooth
Median furrow on tergite of ULBS	present	present	present	present	present	present	present	present
Paramedian sutures on sternites	incomplete	incomplete	incomplete	incomplete	incomplete	incomplete	incomplete	incomplete
Sternite of ULBS	?	without depression	without depression	without depression	without depression	without depression	without depression	?
Spines on coxopleural process	AP: 3–5 LS: 0–1	AP: 3–5 LS: 1	AP: 1–5 SAP: 0–1 LS: 0–1	AP: 3–5 LS: 0–1	AP: 4–5 LS: 0–1	AP: 4 LS: 0–1	AP: 2–6	AP: 2–6 LS: 0–1
Spine formula on prefemora of ultimate legs	VS: 3 rows DS: 4–5 2 rows (4–5) SP: 4–10	V: 5–10 (3 rows) M: 2–4 DM: 2–4 SP: 3–7	V: 5–10 (3 rows) M: 0–6 DM: 0–5 SP: 2–6	V: 5–10 (3 rows) M: 2–4 DM: 2 SP: 3–7	V: 9–10 (3 rows) M: 2–4 DM: 2 SP: 3–7	V: 7–9 (3 rows) M: 0–3 DM: 2–6 SP: 0–4	VL: 2–6 VM: 2–8 M: 2–6 DM: 2–6 SP: 4–8	VL: 6–12 M: 2–6 DM: 3–6 SP: 3–8
Legs with one tarsal spur	1–19(20)	1–19	1–19	1–19	1–19	1–19	1–19	1–19(20)

Note: each superscript number refers to description in previous and present studies as follow; ¹ = this study, ² = Attems (1930b, 1953), ³ = Jangi and Dass (1955), ⁴ = Lewis (1967, 1969), ⁵ = Koch (1983), ⁶ = Chao (2003, 2008).