Ribautia titicacae (Turk,1955)



Ribautia titicacae (Turk,1955)

Original description: Turk F.A. (1955). The chilopods of Peru with descriptions of new species and some zoogeographical notes on the Peruvian chilopod fauna - Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London , 125: 469-504, see p. 487.

Order: Geophilomorpha

Family: Geophilidae

Original rank: subspecies

Original genus: Schizoribautia Brölemann, 1912

Type locality: Puno, Peru

Last taxonomic scrutiny: Pereira L.A., Minelli A., Barbieri F. (1995). Description of nine new centipede species from Amazonia and related matters on Neotropical geophilomorphs (Chilopoda: Geophilomorpha) - Amazoniana, 13: 325-418, see p. 338.

Distribution:

-- within Southern America: Peru

Notes: Originally described as Schizoribautia peruana titicacae. Firstly treated at the species rank by Chamberlin (1957 - Proceedings on the Biological Society of Washington, 70: 27).