Scolopendromorph centipedes (Chilopoda: Scolopendromorpha) in the Natural History Museum (London): A review of the hitherto unidentified species collected in Africa, with remarks on taxonomy and distribution, and a new species of Otostigmus (Parotostigmus)
Author
Simaiakis, Stylianos Michail
Natural History Museum of Crete, University of Crete, Knossos Av., Herakleion 71409, Crete, Greece.
ssimaiakis@yahoo.com
Author
Edgecombe, Gregory D.
Department of Earth Sciences, The Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW 7 5 BD, United Kingdom.
text
Zootaxa
2013
2013-11-05
3734
2
169
198
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3734.2.5
1175-5326
5275595
36ED88E6-2CEB-4071-8429-A39901B8B9BF
12.
Rhysida longicornis
Pocock, 1891
Material examined.
Sokotra Isl.
:
Kischen
,
20
th
September 1956
,
Oxford University
, leg. unknown, 3 exx.,
BMNH
?;
Sokotra Isl.
:
Kischen
,
August 1956
,
Oxfrod University
, leg. unknown, 9 exx.,
BMNH
?;
Sokotra Isl.
:
Kischen
,
September 1917
, leg. unknown, 15 exx.,
BMNH
?;
Sokotra Isl.
:
Kischen
, various dates, becoming more abundant as rains increase,
2.080 ft
,
No.
13, leg. unknown, 22 exx.,
BMNH
?. (
Fig. 22
).
Type
locality.
Sokotra Isl.
(
Minelli
et al
. 2006
)
.
General distribution.
Northeast
Tropical Africa: Sokotra Isl. (
YE
) (
Minelli
et al
. 2006
).