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
11.
Rhysida afra
(
Peters, 1855
)
Rhysida cuprea
Kraepelin, 1903
(for further synonyms see
Minelli
et al
. 2006
).
Material examined.
South Africa
:
Cape
Colony
,
King William’s Town
, leg.
H.A. Spencer
,
1 ex.
,
BMNH
1897.12.4.20-21;
South Africa
:
Pirie Bush
,
King William’s Town
, leg.
A.W. Fleming
, 2 exx.,
BMNH
0.10.10.13- 14. (
Fig. 22
).
Type
locality.
Mozambique
(
Inhambane
) (
Minelli
et al
. 2006
)
.
General distribution.
South Tropical Africa:
Angola
(AO),
Mozambique
(
MZ
); Southern Africa:
South Africa
(ZA); Asia Tropical:
Bangladesh
(
BD
),
Bhutan
(
BT
) (
Lewis 2001a
;
Minelli
et al
. 2006
).