Rhysida

This article is about the genus. For the ransomware group, see Rhysida (hacker group).

Rhysida is a large genus of Scolopendromorph centipedes in the subfamily Otostigminae.^[2][3] It is the second largest genus in the subfamily Otostigminae, with species found in the Neotropics, Indo-Malaya, and Africa.^[4] It shares some morphological characteristics with the genus Alluropus, and its phylogeny in the subfamily Otostigminae is somewhat uncertain.^[5]

Rhysida
Rhysida nuda
Rhysida longipes
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Myriapoda
Class:	Chilopoda
Order:	Scolopendromorpha
Family:	Scolopendridae
Subfamily:	Otostigminae
Genus:	Rhysida Wood, 1862
Type species
Branchiostoma lithobioides Newport, 1845[1]
Synonyms[1]
Branchiostoma Newport, 1845 Ethmophorus Pocock, 1891 Ptychotrema Peters, 1855 Trematoptychus Peters, 1862

Species

There are about 40 species:^[6][7][8][9]

• Rhysida afra (Peters, 1855) (Southern Africa, Bangladesh, Bhutan)
• Rhysida anodonta Lawrence, 1968 (Mozambique)
• Rhysida braziliensis Kraeplin, 1903 (Brazil)
• Rhysida calcarata Pocock, 1891 (Southeast Asia)
• Rhysida carinulata Haase, 1887 (Australasia)
• Rhysida celeris (Humbert & Saussure, 1870) (Latin America) - Blue-Legged Centipede
• Rhysida ceylonica Gravely, 1912 (Sri Lanka)
• Rhysida chacona Verhoeff, 1944 (Argentina)
• Rhysida corbetti Khanna, 1994 (India)
• Rhysida crassispina Kraeplin, 1903 (India)
• Rhysida ikhalama Joshi et al., 2019 (India: Arunachal Pradesh)
• Rhysida immarginata (Porat, 1876) (Congo, Sudan, Indo-Malaya, Latin America)
• Rhysida intermedia Attems, 1910 (Tanzania)
• Rhysida jonesi Lewis, 2002 (Mauritius)
• Rhysida konda Joshi et al., 2019 (India: Orissa)
• Rhysida leviventer Attems,1953 (Laos)
• Rhysida lewisi Joshi et al., 2019 (India: Karnataka)
• Rhysida lithobioides (Newport, 1845) (Somalia, Sumatra)
• Rhysida longicarinulata Khanna & Tripathi, 1986 (India)
• Rhysida longicornis Pocock, 1891 (Socotra)
• Rhysida longipes (Newport, 1845) (Latin America, Florida, Eastern Africa, Chagos Archipelago, Mauritius, East Asia, Indo-Malaysia) - Minor blueleg
• Rhysida manchurica Miyoshi, 1939 (China: Manchuria)
• Rhysida marginata Attems, 1953 (Vietnam)
• Rhysida monalii Khanna & Kumar, 1984 (India: Uttaranchal)
• Rhysida monticola Pocock, 1891 (Sarawak)
• Rhysida neocrassispina Jangi & Dass, 1984 (India: Tamil Nadu)
• Rhysida nuda (Newport, 1845) (Eastern Australia)
• Rhysida pazhuthara Joshi et al., 2019 (India: Kerala)
• Rhysida polyacantha L. E. Koch, 1985 (Australia)
• Rhysida riograndensis Bücherl, 1939 (Brazil)
• Rhysida rubra Bücherl, 1939 (Brazil)
• Rhysida sada Joshi et al., 2019 (India: Maharashtra)
• Rhysida singaporiensis Verhoeff, 1939 (Bali, Singapore)
• Rhysida stuhlmanni Kraeplin, 1903 (East Africa, Malaysia)
• Rhysida suvana Chamberlain, 1920 (Fiji)
• Rhysida togoensis Kraeplin, 1903 (Central Africa)
• Rhysida trispinosa Jangi & Dass, 1984 (India: Maharashtra)
• Rhysida ventrisulcus Attems,1930 (Congo)
• Rhysida yanagiharai Takakuwa, 1935 (Japan?)