Ribautia Explained

Ribautia is a genus of centipedes in the family Geophilidae. This genus was described by French myriapodologist Henry Wilfred Brolemann in 1909.[1] Centipedes in this genus are found in South America, tropical Africa, Madagascar, the Arabian peninsula, Australia, New Zealand, and Melanesia.

Description

Centipedes in this genus feature elongate heads, elongate forcipules, mandibles with long bristles, and sternal pores in one or two paired fields; the coxosternite of the second maxillae has sclerotized ridges and peculiar anterior projections. These centipedes range from about 1 cm to about 7 cm in length and can have as few as 31 or as many as 125 pairs of legs.[2] The small species Ribautia platensis,[3] found in Argentina, measures only 9 mm in length and can have as few as 31 leg pairs (31 pairs in males, 31 or 33 in females),[4] the minimum number recorded in this genus. Other small species of Ribautia with notably few legs include the Peruvian species R. williamsi (known from a female specimen measuring 12 mm in length with 37 leg pairs),[5] the African species R. paucipes (reaching 15 mm in length, with 39 leg pairs in type specimens including both sexes),[6] [7] and the Brazilian species R. onycophaena (reaching 13 mm in length, with 39 leg pairs in males and 41 in females).[8] The large species R. taeniata, found in New Caledonia, can reach 75 mm in length and can have as many as 125 leg pairs (105 to 121 pairs in males, 111 to 125 in females),[9] the maximum number recorded in this genus.

Species

There are over 50 valid species,[1] including:

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Bonato L. . Chagas Junior A. . Edgecombe G.D. . Lewis J.G.E. . Minelli A. . Pereira L.A. . Shelley R.M. . Stoev P. . Zapparoli M. . 2016 . ChiloBase 2.0 . A World Catalogue of Centipedes (Chilopoda) . Rosario Dioguardi and Giuseppe Cortese, University of Padua. 24 February 2023.
  2. Book: Bonato . Lucio . The Myriapoda. Volume 1 . Edgecombe . Gregory D. . Zapparoli . Marzio . Brill . 2011 . 978-90-04-18826-6 . Minelli . Alessandro . Leiden . 363–443 . Chilopoda – Taxonomic overview . 812207443.
  3. Web site: Bonato . L. . Chagas Junior . A. . Edgecombe . G.D. . Lewis . J.G.E. . Minelli . A. . Pereira . L.A. . Shelley . R.M. . Stoev . P. . Zapparoli . M. . 2016 . Ribautia platensis (Silvestri,1898) . 2024-01-20 . ChiloBase 2.0 - A World Catalogue of Centipedes (Chilopoda).
  4. Silvestri . F. . 1898 . Nova Geophiloidea Argentina . Comunicaciones del Museo Nacional de Buenos Aires . Latin . 1 . 2 . 39–40 . Biodiversity Heritage Library.
  5. Pereira . Luis Alberto . 2014-05-04 . A new species of Ribautia Brölemann, 1909 (Chilopoda: Geophilomorpha: Geophilidae) from Peruvian Amazonia, with a key to the Neotropical species of the genus with coxal organs grouped in clusters . Studies on Neotropical Fauna and Environment . en . 49 . 2 . 114–126 . 10.1080/01650521.2014.931095 . 0165-0521. 11336/32624 . free .
  6. Attems . C. . 1953 . Neue Myriopoden des Belgischen Congo . Annales du Musée Royal du Congo Belge . German . 18 . 1-139 [124-125].
  7. Book: Ilie, Victoria . Type specimens of the Geophilomorpha (Chilopoda) in the Natural History Museum Vienna . Schiller . Edmund . Stagl . Verena . 2009 . Verl. des Naturhistorischen Museums . 978-3-902421-33-3 . Kataloge der wissenschaftlichen Sammlungen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien Myriapoda . Wien . 52–53.
  8. Pereira . Luis Alberto . Foddai . Donatella . Minelli . Alessandro . 2000 . New taxa of Neotropical Geophilomorpha (Chilopoda) . Amazoniana . 16 . 1-57 [13-15].
  9. Book: Attems, Carl . Karl . Attems . Lfg. 52 Myriapoda, 1: Geophilomorpha . De Gruyter . 1929 . 978-3-11-143063-8 . 289 . de . 10.1515/9783111430638.

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