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 9. Otostigmus ( Parotostigmus ) gemmifer Attems, 1928a ( Figs 15–17 ) Material examined. Cameroon : Tinta , Assumbo , Mamfe distr. , 4/4/1933 (137L, 168 IN ), 2350’, Percy Sladen Expedition , leg. I. T . Sanderson , 1 ex. , BMNH ?; Cameroon : Mamfe , Mamfediu , 550’ (109L, 119 IN ), 17/2/1933 and 3/3/1933 , in dead logs, under stones, Percy Sladen Expedition , leg. F.J. Sanderson , 1 ex. , BMNH ?; Nigeria : Nko , Obubra div., S . Nigeria , 500 ft , 28/6/1933 (249 s, 385 in ), Percy Sladen Expedition , leg. F.J. Sanderson , 1 ex. , BMNH ?. ( Fig. 8 ). Type locality. Cameroon ( Maconje farm, Mungo river ) ( Minelli et al . 2006 ) . General distribution. West-Central Tropical Africa: Cameroon ( CM ) ( Minelli et al . 2006 ); Nigeria ( NG ) (new region record). Remarks. The two specimens from Cameroon studied here compare to the original description as follows (Attems’ character state in parentheses): 2.5 glabrous antennal articles [2.33]; 4+4 or 3+5 teeth on the coxosternal tooth plates (in the latter case with the inner two pairs grouped); paramedian stutures complete from T8 [T7]; paramedian sutures confined to the anterior part of sternites; no coxopleural process; two tarsal spurs on legs 1–3 [4–5]; one tarsal spur to leg 19. A specimen from southern Nigeria ( Figs 15–17 ) agrees with the Cameroon specimens in all details, including 2.5 glabrous articles, paramedian sutures complete from T7, the same shape of the sternite of the ultimate leg-bearing segment and coxopleuron ( Fig. 17 ), and one tarsal spur from at least leg 4 (legs 1–3 missing) to leg 19.