Rhysida

<i>Rhysida</i>

Rhysida

Genus of arthropods


Rhysida is a large genus of Scolopendromorph centipedes in the subfamily Otostigminae.[1][2] It is the second largest genus in the subfamily Otostigminae, with species found in the Neotropics, Indo-Malaya, and Africa.[3] It shares some morphological characteristics with the genus Alluropus, and its phylogeny in the subfamily Otostigminae is somewhat uncertain.[4]

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Species

There are about 40 species:[5][6][7][8]

  • Rhysida afra (Peters, 1855) (Southern Africa, Bangladesh, Bhutan)
  • Rhysida anodonta Lawrence, 1968 (Mozambique)
  • Rhysida braziliensis Kraeplin, 1903 (Brazil)
  • Rhysida calcarata Pocock, 1891 (Southeast Asia)
  • Rhysida carinulata Haase, 1887 (Australasia)
  • Rhysida celeris (Humbert & Saussure, 1870) (Latin America) - Blue-Legged Centipede
  • Rhysida ceylonica Gravely, 1912 (Sri Lanka)
  • Rhysida chacona Verhoeff, 1944 (Argentina)
  • Rhysida corbetti Khanna, 1994 (India)
  • Rhysida crassispina Kraeplin, 1903 (India)
  • Rhysida ikhalama Joshi et al., 2019 (India: Arunachal Pradesh)
  • Rhysida immarginata (Porat, 1876) (Congo, Sudan, Indo-Malaya, Latin America)
  • Rhysida intermedia Attems, 1910 (Tanzania)
  • Rhysida jonesi Lewis, 2002 (Mauritius)
  • Rhysida konda Joshi et al., 2019 (India: Orissa)
  • Rhysida leviventer Attems,1953 (Laos)
  • Rhysida lewisi Joshi et al., 2019 (India: Karnataka)
  • Rhysida lithobioides (Newport, 1845) (Somalia, Sumatra)
  • Rhysida longicarinulata Khanna & Tripathi, 1986 (India)
  • Rhysida longicornis Pocock, 1891 (Socotra)
  • Rhysida longipes (Newport, 1845) (Latin America, Florida, Eastern Africa, Chagos Archipelago, Mauritius, East Asia, Indo-Malaysia) - Minor blueleg
  • Rhysida manchurica Miyoshi, 1939 (China: Manchuria)
  • Rhysida marginata Attems, 1953 (Vietnam)
  • Rhysida monalii Khanna & Kumar, 1984 (India: Uttaranchal)
  • Rhysida monticola Pocock, 1891 (Sarawak)
  • Rhysida neocrassispina Jangi & Dass, 1984 (India: Tamil Nadu)
  • Rhysida nuda (Newport, 1845) (Eastern Australia)
  • Rhysida pazhuthara Joshi et al., 2019 (India: Kerala)
  • Rhysida polyacantha L. E. Koch, 1985 (Australia)
  • Rhysida riograndensis Bücherl, 1939 (Brazil)
  • Rhysida rubra Bücherl, 1939 (Brazil)
  • Rhysida sada Joshi et al., 2019 (India: Maharashtra)
  • Rhysida singaporiensis Verhoeff, 1939 (Bali, Singapore)
  • Rhysida stuhlmanni Kraeplin, 1903 (East Africa, Malaysia)
  • Rhysida suvana Chamberlain, 1920 (Fiji)
  • Rhysida togoensis Kraeplin, 1903 (Central Africa)
  • Rhysida trispinosa Jangi & Dass, 1984 (India: Maharashtra)
  • Rhysida ventrisulcus Attems,1930 (Congo)
  • Rhysida yanagiharai Takakuwa, 1935 (Japan?)

References

  1. "Rhysida ceylonica Gravely 1912 names - Encyclopedia of Life". eol.org. Retrieved 2022-12-23.
  2. Indian Museum.; Museum, Indian; India, Zoological Survey of (1912). Records of the Indian Museum. Vol. 7. Calcutta: Pub. by order of the trustees of the Indian Museum.
  3. Siriwut, Warut; Edgecombe, Gregory D.; Sutcharit, Chirasak; Tongkerd, Piyoros; Panha, Somsak; Siriwut, Warut; Edgecombe, Gregory D.; Sutcharit, Chirasak; Tongkerd, Piyoros; Panha, Somsak (2018-10-04). "Systematic revision and phylogenetic reassessment of the centipede genera Rhysida Wood, 1862 and Alluropus Silvestri, 1912 (Chilopoda: Scolopendromorpha) in Southeast Asia, with further discussion of the subfamily Otostigminae". Invertebrate Systematics. 32 (5): 1005–1049. doi:10.1071/IS17081. ISSN 1447-2600. S2CID 91788424.
  4. "Rhysida Wood, 1862". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 2022-12-23.
  5. "Rhysida Wood 1862 - Encyclopedia of Life". eol.org. Retrieved 2022-12-23.
  6. ".:CHILOBASE:". chilobase.biologia.unipd.it. Retrieved 2022-12-23.
  7. ZIcha, Ondrej. "BioLib: Biological library". www.biolib.cz. Retrieved 2022-12-23.

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