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Rhysida longipes Newport 1845

Description

Rhysida longipes (Newport, 1845)

Type locality. Unknown.

Exemplars examined. Campeche: Ciudad del Carmen, 5/IV/1999, 1 ex., (new state record). Michoacán: 15 km from Villa Madero, 12/X/1999, coll. E. González, 1 ex., (new state record).

Geographical distribution (indigenous and introduced occurrences): Central (without specific country) and South America (Brazil, Peru, Venezuela), China, Chagos Archipelago, Haiti, India, Madagascar, Maldives, Mauricio and Rodriguez Islands, México, Occidental Africa, Puerto Rico, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Seychelles Archipelago, Somalia, Taiwan, Tanzania, USA, U.S. Virgin Islands, and Yemen (Koch 1985; Lewis and Wranik 1990; González-Sponga 2002; Lewis 2002a; 2002b; Schileyko 2002; Shelley 2002; Chao and Chang 2003; Shelley and Edwards 2004; Minelli 2006; Lewis and Cole 2007).

Distribution in México. Campeche, Chiapas, Gulf of California Islands (Isabel Island), Guerrero, Jalisco, Michoacán, and Sinaloa (Cupul-Magaña and Bueno-Villegas 2007).

Notes

Published as part of Cupul-Magaña, Fabio Germán, 2010, An annotated list of the centipedes (Chilopoda) in the National Collection of Arachnids, Instituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, pp. 1-10 in Insecta Mundi 2010 (125) on page 6, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5164402

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Newport
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Scolopendromorpha
Family
Scolopendridae
Genus
Rhysida
Species
longipes
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Rhysida longipes Newport, 1845 sec. Cupul-Magaña, 2010

References

  • Koch, L. E. 1985. The taxonomy of Australian centipedes of the genus Rhysida Wood (Chilopoda: Scolopendridae: Otostigminae). Journal of Natural History (19): 205 - 214.
  • Lewis, J. G. E., and W. Wranik. 1990. On the centipedes of Yemen. Zoology of the Middle East (4): 61 - 70.
  • Gonzalez-Sponga, M. A. 2002. Miriapodos de Venezuela. Descripcion de siete nuevas especies del genero Rhysida y redescripcion de Rhysida longipes Newport, 1845 (Chilopoda: Scolopendridae). Aula y Ambiente 2 (4): 49 - 60.
  • Lewis, J. G. E. 2002 a. The scolopendromorph centipedes of Mauritus and Rodriguez and their adjacent islets (Chilopoda: Scolopendromorpha). Journal of Natural History 36: 79 - 106.
  • Lewis, J. G. E. 2002 b. A re-examination of 11 species of Otostigmus from the Indo-Australian region described by R. V. Chamberlin based on type specimens in the collection of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard (Chilopoda; Scolopendromorpha; Scolopendridae). Journal of Natural History (36): 1687 - 1706.
  • Schileyko, A. A. 2002. Scolopendromorpha. p. 479 - 500. In: J. Adis (ed.). Amazonian Arachnida and Myriapoda. Pensoft Publishers; Sofia-Moscow. 590 p.
  • Shelley, R. M. 2002. A synopsis of the North American centipedes of the order Scolopendromorpha (Chilopoda). Virginia Museum of Natural History Memoir (5): 1 - 108.
  • Chao, J. L., and H. W. Chang. 2003. The scolopendromorph centipedes (Chilopoda) of Taiwan. African Invertebrates 44 (1): 1 - 11.
  • Shelley, R. M., and G. B. Edwards. 2004. A fourth Floridian record of the centipede genus Rhysida Wood, 1862; potential establishment of R. l. longipes (Newport, 1845) in Miami-Dade County (Scolopendromorpha: Scolopendridae: Otostigminae). Entomological News 115 (2): 116 - 119.
  • Minelli, A. (Ed.). 2006. Chilobase: a web resource for Chilopoda taxonomy. Electronic database accessible at http: // chilobase. bio. unipd. it /. Captured on 27 April 2006.
  • Lewis, J. G. E., and N. C. Cole. 2007. Rhysida longipes longipes (Newport, 1845) in the Chagos Islands, Indian Ocean (Chilopoda, Scolopendromorpha, Scolopendridae). Phelsuma (15): 82 - 84.
  • Cupul-Magana, F. G., and J. Bueno-Villegas. 2007. Primer registro de Rhysida longipes (Chilopoda: Scolopendromorpha: Scolopendridae) en el Parque Nacional Isla Isabel, Golfo de California, Mexico. Dugesiana 14 (1): 39 - 41.