Scolopendra gigantea Linnaeus, 1758 Material examined. ICN-M.Ch-0004, 1 specimen, Atlántico, near Barranquilla, Región el Guajaro La Peña, J.M. Ariano, 20-I- 1968, 20 m; ICN-M.Ch-0054, 1 specimen, Sucre, San Marcos, La Florida, Grupo Sistemática Animal, 21-IV- 2004, 38 m; ICN-M.Ch-0055, 3 specimen, Atlántico, near Barranquilla, Región del Guajaro, La Peña, J. M. Ariano, 20-I- 1968, 20 m; ICN-M.Ch-0094, 1 specimen, Bolívar, Sta. Catalina, Hda. El Ceibal, J. Lynch, 3-X- 1999, 20 m; ICN-M.Ch-0095, 9 specimens, Km 5 Carretera a Pto Colombia, 15-VIII-1964; ICN-M.Ch-0123, 1 specimen, Magdalena, PNN Tayrona, **- VI-2000, ICN-M.Ch-0124, 1 specimen, Magdalena, PN Isla de Salamanca, G. Toro; MNHN (N241), 3 specimens, Cartagena, M. Buret, 1835; MCZ 26467, 2 specimens, near Rio Frio, P.J. Darlington. Distribution. Caribbean coastline of northern South America to Surinam; Venezuela, Trinidad, Aruba and Curaçao (Kraepelin 1903; Attems 1930; Bücherl 1942; Shelley & Kiser 2000; Shelley 2006). All records from Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, St. Thomas, and U. S. Virgin Islands represent accidental human introductions or labelling errors (Shelley 2006). In Colombia it is known only from the Caribbean Región. Altitudinal range. 9 to 40 m.

Published as part of Chagas-Jr, Amazonas, Chaparro, Elisa, Jiménez, Sebastián Galvis, Triana, Hernán Darío Triana, Flórez, Eduardo & Seoane, José Carlos Sícoli, 2014, The centipedes (Arthropoda, Myriapoda, Chilopoda) from Colombia: Part I. Scutigeromorpha and Scolopendromorpha, pp. 133-156 in Zootaxa 3779 (2) on pages 137-138, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3779.2.2, http://zenodo.org/record/4910241