Rhysida togoensis Kraepelin, 1903

Simaiakis, Stylianos Michail & Edgecombe, Gregory D., 2013, 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), Zootaxa 3734 (2), pp. 169-198 : 185

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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 View FIGURE 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.

References

Attems, C. (1930) Myriapoda 2. Scolopendromorpha. In: Schulze, F. E. & Kukenthal, W. (Eds.), Das Tierreich, 54. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, pp. 1 - 308.

Kraepelin, K. (1903) Revision der Scolopendriden. Jahrbuch der Hamburgischen wissenschaftlichen Anstalten, 20 (2), 1 - 276.

Lewis, J. G. E. (2001 a) The scolopendrid centipedes in the collection of the National Museum of Natural History in Sofia (Chilopoda: Scolopendromorpha: Scolopendridae). Historia naturalis bulgarica, 13, 5 - 51.

Minelli, A., Bonato, L., Dioguardi, R., Chagas, J. A., Edgecombe, G. D., Lewis, J. G. E., Pereira, L. A., Shelley, R. M., Stoev, P., Uliana, M. & Zapparoli, M. (2006 and onwards). CHILOBASE. A web resource for Chilopoda taxonomy.

Porat, C. O. von (1876) Om nagra exotiska myriopoder. Bihang till Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademien Handlingar, 4, 7, 1 - 48.

Figures

FIGURE 22. Rhysida afra, R. longicornis, R. longipes longipes, R. paucidens, R. stuhlmanni stuhlmanni and R. togoensis, distribution records of specimens from Africa housed in the NHM collection.