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.

The valid name for Rhysida cuprea Kraepelin, 1903 is Rhysida afra (Peters, 1855)

Rhysida cuprea Kraepelin, 1903

Original description: Kraepelin K. (1903). Revision der Scolopendriden - Jahrbuch der Hamburgischen Wissenschaftlichen Anstalten , (2)20: 1-276, see p. 154.

Order: Scolopendromorpha

Family: Scolopendridae

Original rank:

Original genus: Rhysida Wood, 1862

Type locality: Bhutan

Synonymy: Lewis J.G.E. (2001). The scolopendrid centipedes in the collections of the National Museum of Natural History in Sofia (Chilopoda: Scolopendromorpha: Scolopendridae) - Historia Naturalis Bulgarica, 13: 5-51, see p. 47.