Tony was kind enough to send us all the VC56 records which the BMIG held. Many were Tony's own records from his time living in Bingham, but P.E. Jones also did a great deal of recording in the same area of the county and at around the same time.

Records sent to us by the BMIG, coupled with those of other local naturalists and ourselves, means that we now have a continually improving idea of species distribution and status in Nottinghamshire, which is probably much better than many other Midland counties. Centipede distribution does tend to reflect recorder location, so the distribution of some species can be quite patchy and not wholly representative of their distribution.

Only recently recorded from Nottinghamshire (Sookholme Church in April 2015 and near Kirton in May 2016), Geophilus carpophagus has frequently been confused with Geophilus easoni in the past, and only recently have the two been considered to be separate species (Arthur, et al 2001). There is a previous record from Bunny Old Wood, but the recorder is unknown and there was no retained specimen. Geophilus carpophagus is not a woodland species, favouring more urban locations, where it can be found under loose mortar and brickwork on the walls of buildings etc.

It is likely that most species listed as having occurred in Nottinghamshire are still present and widely distributed, its just that few recorders are regularly looking for them.

On a cold, wet day in early March 2013, we brought home a carrier bag of leaf litter and moss collected at Sherwood Forest CP and promptly found Nottinghamshire's first record of Lithobius muticus. Keith and Belinda Lugg also recorded Nottinghamshire's first Cryptops anomalans from the grounds of Worksop Priory in August 2015, so there is little doubt that new species for the county are waiting to be found, even in suburban localities such as parks, gardens and Churchyards.

As if to illustrate the likelihood of new species having the potential to turn up anywhere, Richard Jones recently discovered the House Centipede (Scutigera coleoptrata) indoors at Upton in January 2024.

The distribution maps are largely built from the records of Tony Barber, P.E. Jones and ourselves. We have avoided using historical records sourced from J.W. Carr's book The Invertebrate Fauna of Nottinghamshire", feeling that a modern atlas is more representative of the current distribution of our Centipede fauna and far more useful. The maps are up to date, as of December 2022.

For more up to date species accounts, download the fourth edition of the modern Atlas of Nottinghamshire Centipedes. Link at bottom of page.

Both are available as pdf files, but quickly tend to become out of date, following the increased interest in both groups, so are regularly updated when possible.

Records sent to us by the BMIG, coupled with all the recent records, means that we actually have a good picture of species distribution within Nottinghamshire and probably much better than many other Midland counties.

Latest editions of the Nottinghamshire Centipede and Millipede Atlases  published in December 2022