Rhysida Explained

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]

Species

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

• Rhysida afra (Southern Africa, Bangladesh, Bhutan)
• Rhysida anodonta (Mozambique)
• Rhysida braziliensis (Brazil)
• Rhysida calcarata (Southeast Asia)
• Rhysida carinulata (Australasia)
• Rhysida celeris (Latin America) -
• Rhysida ceylonica (Sri Lanka)
• Rhysida chacona (Argentina)
• Rhysida corbetti (India)
• Rhysida crassispina (India)
• Rhysida ikhalama (India: Arunachal Pradesh)
• Rhysida immarginata (Congo, Sudan, Indo-Malaya, Latin America)
• Rhysida intermedia (Tanzania)
• Rhysida jonesi (Mauritius)
• Rhysida konda (India: Orissa)
• Rhysida leviventer (Laos)
• Rhysida lewisi (India: Karnataka)
• Rhysida lithobioides (Somalia, Sumatra)
• Rhysida longicarinulata (India)
• Rhysida longicornis (Socotra)
• Rhysida longipes (Latin America, Florida, Eastern Africa, Chagos Archipelago, Mauritius, East Asia, Indo-Malaysia) -
• Rhysida manchurica (China: Manchuria)
• Rhysida marginata (Vietnam)
• Rhysida monalii (India: Uttaranchal)
• Rhysida monticola (Sarawak)
• Rhysida neocrassispina (India: Tamil Nadu)
• Rhysida nuda (Eastern Australia)
• Rhysida pazhuthara (India: Kerala)
• Rhysida polyacantha (Australia)
• Rhysida riograndensis (Brazil)
• Rhysida rubra (Brazil)
• Rhysida sada (India: Maharashtra)
• Rhysida singaporiensis (Bali, Singapore)
• Rhysida stuhlmanni (East Africa, Malaysia)
• Rhysida suvana (Fiji)
• Rhysida togoensis (Central Africa)
• Rhysida trispinosa (India: Maharashtra)
• Rhysida ventrisulcus (Congo)
• Rhysida yanagiharai (Japan?)

Notes and References

1. Web site: Rhysida ceylonica Gravely 1912 names - Encyclopedia of Life . 2022-12-23 . eol.org.
2. Book: Indian Museum. . Records of the Indian Museum . Museum . Indian . India . Zoological Survey of . 1912 . Pub. by order of the trustees of the Indian Museum . 7 . Calcutta.
3. Chagas Junior . Amazonas . 2013-01-14 . A redescription of Rhysida celeris (Humbert & Saussure, 1870), with a proposal of eight new synonyms (Scolopendromorpha, Scolopendridae, Otostigminae) . ZooKeys . 258 . 17–29 . 10.3897/zookeys.258.4675 . 1313-2970 . 3591754 . 23653497. free .
4. 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 . en . 32 . 5 . 1005–1049 . 10.1071/IS17081 . 91788424 . 1447-2600.
5. Web site: Rhysida Wood, 1862 . 2022-12-23 . www.gbif.org . en.
6. Web site: Rhysida Wood 1862 - Encyclopedia of Life . 2022-12-23 . eol.org.
7. Web site: .:CHILOBASE:. . 2022-12-23 . chilobase.biologia.unipd.it.
8. Web site: ZIcha . Ondrej . BioLib: Biological library . 2022-12-23 . www.biolib.cz.