Table 7.

Morphological survey of geographical variation of Scolopendra dehaani populations from different regions.

Characters	Geographical distribution area
	Java1,2	Thailand, Laos and Cambodia1	Burma1	Malay Peninsula1	India3	China- Japan1	Mexico1
Number of antennal articles	14–18	18–21	17–19	17–19	18–19	18	18
Number of glabrous articles	6	6	6	6	6	6	6
Teeth on tooth-plate	5+4,5+5	5+5	5+5,5+6,6+6	5+5,6+6,7+8,8+10	6+6	6+7	6+6
First tergite with complete paramedian sutures	incomplete	4	2–6	3–4	4	3–5 or incomplete	incomplete
First tergite with margination	7–10	13	10–14	7–13	5	8	7
Tergite surface	smooth	smooth	smooth	smooth	smooth	smooth	smooth
Median furrow on tergite of ULBS	absent	absent	absent	absent	absent	absent	absent
Extent (percentage) of paramedian sutures on sternites	10–15% (rarely with complete PS)	90–100%	100%	30–100%	80–100%	80–100%	20%
Sternite of ultimate leg-bearing segment	with or without pit- like median depression	with pit- like median depression	with or without pit- like median depression	with or without pit-like median depression	without pit-like median depression	without pit-like median depression	without pit-like median depression
Spines on coxopleural process	AP: 2 SAP: 0–1	AP: 2	AP: 2	AP: 0–2	AP: 2	AP: 2	AP: 1 SAP: 0–1
Spinulation formula on prefemora of ult. legs	M: 0–2 DM: 0–2 SP: 2–4	M: 1 DM: 1 SP: 2–3	M: 0–2 DM: 0–2 SP: 2	M: 1 DM: 1 SP: 1–3	DM: 1 SP: 2	M: 0–1 DM: 1–2 SP: 1–2	M: 0–1 DM: 1 SP: 2
Legs with one tarsal spur	1–20	1–19	1–19 (20)	1–19 (20)	1–20	1–20	1–20

Note: each superscript number refers to data from recent and earlier studies as follow: ¹ = This study, ² = Brandt (1840), ³ = Jangi and Dass (1984).