An annotated catalogue of the scutigeromorph centipedes in the collection of the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris (France) (Chilopoda: Scutigeromorpha)
Author
Stoev, Pavel
Author
Geoffroy, Jean-Jacques
text
Zootaxa
2004
635
1
12
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.158015
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158015
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Pselliodes
aff.
vagans
(Verhoeff, 1905)
Pselliophora vagans
Verhoeff, 1905b
: 95
–97.
Type
locality:
Unteres Kongogebiet: Chinchoxo (Tschinschoscho), nördlich der Kongomündung.
Holotype
:
male, Nos 3893a–e, Prep. Nos
2617–2621
,
ZMB
.
Material examined:
2 specimens
“
Pselliophora
sp.” J.M. Demange det. 8/69 Africa,
Guinea
, Nimba 7Cb, Environs base cote Keoulenta, Savane à
Andropogon
,
5.viii.1951
, M. Lamotte leg.
Remarks:
The African and Neotropical family
Pselliodidae
has never been comprehensively revised, and is still a great challenge for taxonomists interested in the systematics of the
Scutigeromorpha
. Two African morphotypes,
P. rugosus
(East Africa) and
P. vagans
(West Africa), can easily be distinguished solely on the basis of their coloration. Our specimens, although badly damaged, are more like the latter, hitherto known from
Angola
(Chinchoxo; Landana, Enclave de
Cabinda
),
Gabon
(Moanda) and
Zaire
(Eala, Luali, N’Gongo Bata).