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
16.
Rhysida togoensis
Kraepelin, 1903
Material examined.
Ghana
:
Accra
,
Gold Coast
, leg.
S.J. Woodward
,
1 ex.
,
BMNH
1930.4.4.6
;
Ghana
:
Gold Coast
,
Diplopoda
and
Chilopoda
various collections, leg. unknown,
1 ex.
,
BMNH
?;
Nigeria
: N.
Nigeria
,
London School of Tropical Medicine
,
Pres’d
by
Prof. P.A. Buxter
, leg.
Dr. W.B. Johnson
,
1 ex.
,
BMNH
1950.4.19.30-35. (
Fig. 22
)
.
Type
locality.
Sierra Leone, Togo
,
Cameroon
(‘Little Popo’) (
Minelli
et al
. 2006
)
.
General distribution.
West Tropical Africa:
Gambia
(GM),
Ghana
(GH) (new region record),
Ivory Coast
(CI),
Nigeria
(
NG
),
Senegal
(SN),
Sierra Leone
(SL),
Togo
(
TG
); West-Central Tropical Africa:
Cameroon
(
CM
) (
Attems 1930
).
Remarks.
Rhysida immarginata
(
Porat, 1876
)
, with
types
from the
Philippines
, has in recent years included the western African
R. togoensis
Kraepelin, 1903
, as a subspecies (
R. immarginata togoensis
) (e.g.,
Lewis 2001a
). Here we follow the original usage of
R. togoensis
sensu
Kraepelin (1903)
, a species widely distributed across the Western Africa region.