ChiloBase 2.0

Recommended citation:
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).
Available at https://chilobase.biologia.unipd.it.

Rhysida celeris (Humbert & Saussure,1870)

Original description: Humbert A., Saussure H. de (1870). Myriapoda nova Americana. Series 2 - Revue et Magasin de Zoologie, 22: 202-205, see p. 202.

Order: Scolopendromorpha

Family: Scolopendridae

Original rank: species

Original genus: Branchiostoma Newport, 1845

Type locality: Carolina

Subspecies:

• Rhysida celeris andina Bücherl, 1953
• Rhysida celeris celeris (Humbert & Saussure, 1870)

Last taxonomic scrutiny: Bücherl W. (1974). Die Scolopendromorpha der neotropischen Region - Symposia of the Zoological Society of London , 32: 99-133, see p. 119.

Distribution:

-- within Southern America: Dominican Republic; Haiti

Notes: The type locality is clearly misassigned. Records from North America have been questioned (Shelley, 2002 - Virginia Mus. Nat. Hist. Mem., 5: 5)