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
2.
Cryptops
(
Trigonocryptops
)
gigas
Kraepelin, 1903
Material examined.
Cameroon
:
Mamfe
,
Mamfediu
, 450,
10/6/1933
(2215:
321 m
),
Percy Sladen Expedition
, leg. I.
T
. Sanderson,
1 ex.
,
BMNH
?. (
Fig. 2
)
.
Type
locality.
Cameroon
(
German
West Africa
) (
Minelli
et al
. 2006
)
.
General distribution.
West-Central Tropical Africa:
Cameroon
(
CM
) (
Minelli
et al
. 2006
).
Remarks.
A specimen from
Cameroon
is assigned to the only
Cryptops
(
Trigonocryptops
)
species described from that country that shares its nearly complete paramedian sutures on the cephalic plate, though the difference in size between the specimens (
30 mm
in the NHM specimen versus
80 mm
in the
holotype
of
C
. (
T.
)
gigas
), coupled with the absence of the ultimate leg pair in the latter, makes comparison imperfect. The NHM specimen has 12 saw teeth on the ultimate leg tibia and two on tarsus 1. Distal spinose processes are present on the inner side of the ultimate leg prefemur, the outer side of the femur, and on both sides of the tibia. Paramedian sutures are incomplete (present anteriorly) on T1, confined to the pretergite of T2, and complete from TT3–20.