A contribution to the centipede fauna of Venezuela (Chilopoda: Scolopendromorpha)

Schileyko, Arkady A.

doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3821.2.1

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“…Regarded as native to Hispaniola. Kraepelin (1904a) and Chamberlin (1918Chamberlin ( , 1944 have been forgotten and are absent from classic monographs (Attems, 1930;Bücherl, 1942) and from recent literature (Chagas-Júnior, 2008;Chagas-Júnior, 2010;Schileyko, 2014, Schileyko & Stoev, 2016. A "Haiti" literature record in Chagas-Júnior (2003a), evidently coming from Bücherl (1974), was not listed in Chagas-Júnior (2008).…”

Section: Family Cryptopidae Kohlrausch 1881mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…REMARKS. The type locality is incomplete in Chilobase and in Schileyko (2014), as "Venezuela, Caracas". It is complete in Schileyko & Minelli (1999), as "Venezuela, Caracas and Brazil".…”

Section: Newportia Ernsti Ernstimentioning

confidence: 99%

“…A footnote on the Chilobase pages of N. ernsti and N. e. ernsti reads: "Records from 'Hispaniola' refer either to Haiti or the Dominican Republic". We have read Pocock (1891Pocock ( , 1893Pocock ( , 1896, Chamberlin (1918), Attems (1930) and Schileyko (2014) without finding a N. ernsti record from Hispaniola in general. The footnote seems superfluous.…”

Section: Records Not Backed By Known Literaturementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Within his Checklist of the Hispaniolan Arthropods, Perez-Gelabert (2008) published a synthesis of Hispaniolan Chilopoda, on which 27 species names were mentioned, including synonyms. After this compilation, Perez-Gelabert & Edgecombe (2013) updated the treatments for Scutigeromorpha and provided new records from Dominican Republic, Chagas-Júnior (2013) reported Rhysida celeris (Humbert & Saussure, 1870) from Dominican Republic and Haiti, and Schileyko (2014) reported Newportia longitarsis stechowi from Dominican Republic. Mercurio (2016) republished former records of S. alternans from Hispaniola and added some new.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Checklist of the centipedes (Chilopoda) of Hispaniola

Martínez‐Muñoz

Pérez-Gelabert²

2018

Novit. Caribaea

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Ten years have passed since the last checklist of Hispaniolan Chilopoda was done and the last bibliographic compendium was published. In this work we expand the former list of species and bibliography, update the taxonomic classification and provide an assessment on Chilobase records. A new intensive literature review was performed and both recent and formerly overlooked myriapodological works were included. The treatment of supraspecific taxonomic ranks was updated and follows Chilobase 2.0. This catalogue lists 4 fossil taxa as well as 24 extant species of centipedes from Hispaniola, 9 of which are endemic. For each extant species considered, there is information on Hispaniolan synonymies and geographic distribution. Included are some clarifications on synonymies and locality problems, and species with uncertain taxonomic status are indicated. Chilobase 2.0 was tested for completeness and accuracy. We propose several updates, grouped by incorrect species records, records not backed by known literature and species not under their currently accepted synonym. We also recommend chilopodologists to maintain active collaboration and send their updates to this useful database.

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Section: Family Cryptopidae Kohlrausch 1881mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…REMARKS. The type locality is incomplete in Chilobase and in Schileyko (2014), as "Venezuela, Caracas". It is complete in Schileyko & Minelli (1999), as "Venezuela, Caracas and Brazil".…”

Section: Newportia Ernsti Ernstimentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Records Not Backed By Known Literaturementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Checklist of the centipedes (Chilopoda) of Hispaniola

Martínez‐Muñoz

Pérez-Gelabert²

2018

Novit. Caribaea

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“…All the other species of myriapods from this country have been described or recorded by foreign specialists. Venezuelan species lists of the Chilopoda were recently provided by Cazorla (2012), and Schileyko (2014). Only a few field surveys and specimen collecting activities targeting myriapods have been conducted, and vast areas of Venezuela have never been surveyed.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Check list of the Venezuelan millipedes species

Bueno-Villegas

Sierwald

Ascenção

2019

Zootaxa

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Here we provide a checklist of millipedes described or recorded in the literature from Venezuela. The diplopod fauna is comprised of eight orders, 18 families, 54 genera, and 157 species. The millipede orders Glomerida, Chordeumatida, Julida, Siphoniulida, and Platydesmida (known elsewhere in the Western Hemisphere) are not, as of yet, reported from the Venezuelan fauna. Two widely distributed invasive species, Asiomorpha coarctata and Oxidus gracilis, were recorded from Venezuela. All species records listed here contain comprehensive citation and synonymy lists. Numerous locality data are questionable and are discussed. For most species, the supposed deposition of the type specimens is given. However, the museum and gender information is taken mostly from the literature as the type specimen themselves were not examined. An analysis of records extracted from GBIF in 2016 and in 2018 was conducted and compared to the data captured from the published taxonomic literature. The data in this checklist are summarized online at the MilliBase website.

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Convergent evolution of defensive appendages – a lithobiomorph-like centipede with a scolopendromorph-type ultimate leg from about 100 million-year-old amber

Haug

2023

Palaeobio Palaeoenv

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Centipedes are predatory representatives of the group Myriapoda and important components of the soil and leaf-litter fauna. The first pair of trunk appendages is modified into venom-injecting maxillipeds in all centipedes. The number of trunk appendage pairs varies between the different groups of centipedes, from 15 pairs as apparently ancestral (plesiomorphic) condition, up to 191 pairs. The last pair of trunk legs can be used for different tasks in centipedes, e.g. mechano-sensation, defense, or stridulation. Many morphological details are also known from fossil centipedes, but especially the oldest fossils are often fragmentary and the fossil record in general is rather scarce. Especially the late appearance of lithobiomorphans in Cenozoic ambers is notable, though some not formally described lithobiomorph-like specimens from Cretaceous amber from Myanmar have been published. We present here a new specimen from Cretaceous Kachin amber, Myanmar with a lithobiomorph-type of morphology, Lithopendra anjafliessae gen. et sp. nov. The very large ultimate leg appears to have been used for defence and is, in relative proportions, larger than in any known lithobiomorphan, only comparable to that in scolopendromorphans. With this, the specimen presents a mixture of characters, which are in the modern fauna only known from two different centipede groups. We discuss the implications of this new fossil, also concerning events of convergence in this lineage.

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A contribution to the centipede fauna of Venezuela (Chilopoda: Scolopendromorpha)

Cited by 8 publications

References 13 publications

Checklist of the centipedes (Chilopoda) of Hispaniola

Checklist of the centipedes (Chilopoda) of Hispaniola

Check list of the Venezuelan millipedes species

Convergent evolution of defensive appendages – a lithobiomorph-like centipede with a scolopendromorph-type ultimate leg from about 100 million-year-old amber

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