Centipedes and Millipeds (Arthropoda: Diplopoda, Chilopoda) from Saba Island, Lesser Antilles, and a Consolidation of Major References on the Myriapod Fauna of “ Lesser ” Caribbean Islands Rowland M. Shelley
Author
Shelley, Rowland M.
Author
Sikes, Derek S.
text
Insecta Mundi
2012
2012-04-06
2012
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journal article
10.5281/zenodo.10108462
1942-1354
10108462
Cryptops hortensis
(Donovan, 1810)
Published records
. None.
Locality
.
Dancing Place Trail Trailhead
(
17.62452°N
,
63.23713°W
, +10’),
328m
,
20m
extent, leaf litter Berlese, 1 ind.,
13 March 2008
, DS Sikes, JASlowik, GD Alpert.
New Island Record.
Remarks
. The specimen, demineralized and lacking the caudal legs, is in poor condition, but the tarsungula overlap when closed and the first tergite overlaps the caudal margin of the cephalic plate, so we are comfortable with the generic and specific determinations. A European species,
C
.
hortensis
has been introduced into urban environments across the continental
US
(
Shelley 2002a
);
Demange (1981)
reported
C. h. pauciporus
Brölemann, 1908, from Guadeloupe.