Ribautia Brölemann, 1909

Pereira, Luis Alberto, 2013, Ribautia lewisi sp. nov., a new centipede from Argentina with unusual tentorial process (Chilopoda: Geophilomorpha, Geophilidae), Zootaxa 3630 (2), pp. 225-242 : 226

Genus Ribautia Brölemann, 1909

Diagnosis. This genus can be distinguished from all other genera currently recognized in the family Geophilidae by the following combination of features. Second maxillae: united by a small coxosternal bridge only; antero-internal corners of coxosternite with a more or less developed process; prominent distally convergent ridges (statuminia sensu Crabill 1960) present. Forcipules: pleurocoxosternal sutures extending obliquely to the outer margin; chitinlines present; medial edge of trochanteropraefemur of telopodites either with a small unpigmented protuberance, with a conspicuous pigmented or unpigmented tooth, with two of these teeth, or without teeth. Sternites with porefields. Each coxopleuron of the ultimate leg-bearing segment with coxal organs, distributed in one of the following ways: (1) opening separately, (2) an anterior organ opening separately and all the remaining grouped in a cluster, (3) grouped in one-three clusters. Pretarsus of ultimate legs either claw-like or tubercle-like.

Type species of the genus. Ribautia bouvieri Brölemann, 1909 , by monotypy.