Table 6.

Morphological comparison of Scolopendra subspinipes populations from different geographical regions. ? insufficient data.

Character	Bay of Bengal and Indian Ocean1	Malay Peninsula1	Vietnam 2	Indonesia1	Philippines1	Taiwan 3	China1	Japan1
Number of antennal articles	18	18–19	18–19	17–19	17–18	18–19	16–18	15–19
Number of glabrous articles	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6
Teeth on tooth-plate	5+5	4+6, 5+5, 6+5, 6+6, 7+7	4–9 (each side?)	5+5, 6+7, 7+7, 6+10	5+5, 10+5, 7+7	5+5	5+5	4+5, 5+5, 6+5, 6+6
First tergite with complete paramedian sutures	3	3	2(9) (poorly defined in some specimens)	3–4	3–4	4–6	3–6	3–6
First tergite with margination	5	4–10	14–15	4–11	3–5	5–9	5–8	5–16
Tergite surface	smooth	smooth	smooth	smooth	smooth	smooth	smooth	smooth
Median furrow on tergite of ULBS	absent	absent	absent	absent	absent	absent	absent	absent
Paramedian sutures on sternites	complete	complete	complete	complete	complete	incomplete	complete	complete
Sternite of ultimate leg-bearing segment	without pit	pit-like median furrow	?	pit-like median furrow	without pit	?	pit-like median furrow	pit-like median furrow
Spines on coxopleural process	AP: 2	AP: 2 SAP: 0–1	AP: 2	AP: 2 SAP: 0–1	AP: 2 SAP: 0–1	AP: 2–3	AP: 1–2 SAP: 0–1	AP: 0–2 SAP: 0–1
Spine formula on prefemora of ultimate legs	VL: 2 M: 1 DM: 1 SP: 2	VL: 2–3 M: 1–2 DM: 1–2 SP: 2–3	VL: 0–3 M: 0–2 DM: 0–3 SP: 1≥	VL: 2 M: 1–2 DM: 1–2 SP: 2–5	VL: 2 M: 1–2 DM: 1–2 SP: 2	VL: 2 VM: 1 DM: 2 SP: 2–4	VL: 2–3 M: 1 DM: 1 SP: 1–2	VL: 0–3 M: 0–2 DM: 0–2 SP: 1–6
Legs with one tarsal spur	1–20(R)	1–19(20)	1–19	1–19 (20)	1–19 (20)	1–20	1–20	1–19(20)

Note: each superscript number refers to description in previous and present studies as follow: ¹ = this study, ² = Schileyko (1995), ³ = Chao (2008).