Pselliodes rugosus
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Pselliodes rugosus (Newport, 1844) New Combination!
Cermatia rugosa Newport, 1844: 95.
Type locality: Africa.
Type: number and sex unknown, BMNH.
Material examined: The MNHN houses material from East Africa identified by H. Ribaut.
New record: MOZAMBIQUE: ad. M, Zambezi, Nova Choufanga near Chemba, P. Lesne leg., 1929.
General distribution: Kenya: Merifano. “near some pools of water a little to the west of Shebeli River”. Mozambique: Nova Choufanga near Chemba.
Remarks: Newport (1844) described Cermatia rugosa from Africa without specifying the exact locality. Since then this species has been reported only by Gray (1844), Newport (1845, 1856), Gervais (1847) and Pocock (1896, 1899). Its identity is not as yet entirely clear, although it certainly belongs to the genus Pselliodes Chamberlin, 1921, and perhaps is identical with some (if not all) of the species described by Verhoeff (1905b) from East Africa and almost indistinguishable from each other. However, whether it is a good species can only be established after a reexamination of the types of Verhoeff and Newport, fortunately these are still preserved in the collections of the ZMB and the BMNH. We formalize here the following new combination: Cermatia rugosa Newport, 1844 = Pselliodes rugosus (Newport, 1844). It should be noted that Scutigera rugosa reported by Porath (1871) from South Africa, a record repeated by Attems (1928) is not identical with Pselliodes rugosus (Newport, 1844) (cf. Pocock, 1893). Having access to the types of Newport, and also to new material from the same region of Africa (Cape Town), Pocock recognised that his specimens and Porath’s differed significantly from Newport’s Cermatia rugosa, and described them as a new species, Scutigera planiceps. Its type locality (South Africa: Cape Town: Simon’s Bay) is, at present, part of the range of only two scutigeromorphs – the widespread subcosmopolitan synantrope of European origin Scutigera coleoptrata, and the autochthonous Scutigerina weberi Silvestri, 1903. The original description of Scutigera planiceps excludes the possibility that it is conspecific with coleoptrata, but shows it to have the external characters of Scutigerina weberi. However, in order to formalize this synonymy the type of S. planiceps, currently preserved in the collection of the BMNH (specimen 10 mm long, most legs missing but antennae still attached, the registered number BM1891.5.18.1, Paul Hillyard, in lit.), should be studied.
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Biodiversity
- Family
- Scutigeridae
- Genus
- Pselliodes
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Scutigeromorpha
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Newport
- Species
- rugosus
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- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Pselliodes rugosus (Newport, 1844) sec. Stoev & Geoffroy, 2004
References
- Newport, G. (1844) A List of the species of Myriapoda, Order Chilopoda, contained in the cabinets of the British Museum, with synoptic descriptions of forty-seven new Species. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 13, 94 - 101.
- Gray, J. E. (1844) List of the specimens of Myriapoda in the collection of the British Museum. Newman, London, v - vi + 1 - 16.
- Newport, G. (1845) Monograph of the class Myriapoda, Order Chilopoda; with observations on the general arrangement of the Articulata. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, 19, 265 - 302 (1844), 349 - 439 (1845).
- Newport, G. (1856) Catalogue of the Myriapoda in the collection of the British Museum. Part I. Chilopoda. Taylor and Francis, London, 1 - 96.
- Gervais, P. (1847) Chilopodes. Schizotarses. In: Walckenaer, B. & Gervais, P. Histoire naturelle des Insectes. Apteres. Tome Quatrieme. Librairie Encyclopedique de Roret, Paris, 213 - 226.
- Pocock, R. I. (1896) On the scorpions, centipedes, and millipedes obtained by Dr. Gregory on his expedition to Mount Kenia, East Africa. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 6, 17, 425 - 444, Pl. XVIII.
- Pocock, R. I. (1899) Solifugae, Scorpiones, Chilopoda and Diplopoda. Appendix C to A. Donaldson Smith's " Through unknown African Countries ", 392 - 407.
- Verhoeff, K. W. (1905 b) Uber Scutigeriden. 5. Aufsatz. Zoologischer Anzeiger, 29, 73 - 103; (4), 105 - 119.
- Porath, C. O. von (1871) Myriopoda Africae australis, in Museo Regio Holmiensi asservata, recensuit. Pars. I. Chilopoda. Ofversigt af Kunglika Vetenskaps-Akademiens Forhandlingar, Stockholm, 9, 1135 - 1167.
- Attems, C. G. (1928) The Myriopoda of South Africa. Annals of the South African Museum, 26, 1 - 431, 84 figs.
- Pocock, R. I. (1893) Report upon the Myriapoda of the " Challenger " Expedition, with Remarks upon the Fauna of Bermuda. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 6, 11, 121 - 142, Pl. IX.