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statewide from Florida and presented a distribution map, and Shelley 

 (1987) reported general distributions of T. posticus and T. spinicaudus 

 in North Carolina, showing counties of occurrence on a locality map. 

 In the latest four papers on the Plutoniuminae, Shelley (1990a, 

 1991) deleted T. spinicaudus from Hawaii, Mexico, and Canada; reported 

 the first Mexican localities for T. posticus', demonstrated broad occurrence 

 of this species in the southwestern United States; and deduced that 

 T. calif or niensis is the correct binomial for the congener in northern 

 California and Oregon. Hence, he restricted the name T. erythrocephalus 

 to the European species. In a paper on Yugoslavian centipedes Kos 

 (1992) characterized T. erythrocephalus as a mediterranean to sub- 

 mediterranean species and recorded it from Croatia, Bosnia-Hercegovina, 

 and Montenegro. Finally, Hoffman (1995) reported T. posticus from 

 14 counties in Virginia. Thus at this writing, plutoniuminine species 

 have been reported from the following states in Mexico, counties and 

 states in the United States, and islands and general regions of European 

 countries. The published overall range statements are summarized first 

 for T. posticus, T. spinicaudus, and T. calif orniensis, and where appropriate, 

 the general range statements for each state are presented first under 

 each state, for the American species, and under each country or island, 

 for the European representatives. 



Theatops posticus 



USA: General range statements — East of the Mississippi River, 

 north to Virginia, Indiana, and Illinois (Bollman 1893); the eastern 

 United States south of Virginia, Indiana, and Illinois (Chamberlin 1902); 

 sporadic in Utah and Arizona, and ranging from southern Illinois, 

 Ohio, and northern Virginia south to the Gulf States (Crabill 1960); 

 and the eastern United States generally south of the Great Lakes and 

 east of the Central Plains, extending along the Gulf of Mexico to 

 San Patricio County, and inland to Limestone County, Texas (Shelley 

 1990a). 



Indiana— Bloomington, Monroe Co. (McNeill 1887, Bollman 1888e); 

 Dublin, Wayne Co., and Brookville, Franklin Co. (McNeill 1887); New 

 Providence, Clark Co., and Wyandotte, Crawford Co. (Bollman 1888e). 



Illinois — Gallatin, Hardin, Pope, Jackson, and Pulaski counties 

 (Summers et al. 1980, 1981). 



Ohio — southern Ohio in general (Kevan 1983); southeastern Ohio 

 in general (Williams and Hefner 1928); Vinton, Gallia Co. (Morse 

 1902). 



Virginia — Virginia in general (Underwood 1887); southwestern 

 Virginia in general (Cope 1869); Lee Co. (Meinert 1886); Luray, Page 



