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 nuda (Newport,1845)

Original description: Newport G. (1845). Monograph of the class Myriapoda order Chilopoda; with observations on the general arrangement of the Articulata - Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, 19: 265-302, 349-439, see p. 412.

Order: Scolopendromorpha

Family: Scolopendridae

Original rank: species

Original genus: Branchiostoma Newport, 1845

Type locality: Australia (New Holland), Paramatta

Synonym(s):

• Rhysida defecta Chamberlin, 1920
• Rhysida kurandana Chamberlin, 1920
• Branchiostoma obsoletum Porat, 1876
• Branchiostoma subinerme Meinert, 1886

Subspecies:

• Rhysida nuda brevicornis Wang, 1951
• Rhysida nuda brevicornuta Wang, 1951

Last taxonomic scrutiny: Koch L.E. (1985). The taxonomy of Australian centipedes of the genus Rhysida Wood (Chilopoda: Scolopendridae: Otostigminae) - Journal of Natural History , 19: 205-214, see p. 209.

Distribution:

-- within Southern America: Haiti

Notes: Many published records of Rhysida nuda Newport, 1845 are probably referrable to Rhysida immarginata (Porat, 1876), according to L. E. Koch (1985, J. Nat. Hist, 19: 206)