Rhysida Wood, 1862

Jonishi, Taro & Nakano, Takafumi, 2022, Correct Authorships, Synonymies, and Remarks on the Type Series of Fourteen Names of Centipedes Introduced by Yoshioki Takakuwa in 1934 and Mecistocephalus takakuwai (Chilopoda: Geophilomorpha and Scolopendromorpha), Species Diversity 27 (1), pp. 71-81 : 79

Genus Rhysida Wood, 1862 Rhysida longipes brevicornis Takakuwa, 1934d [Japanese name: On-rishidamukade]

Branchiostoma longipes Newport, 1845: 411 (senior subjective synonym).

Rhysida longipes brevicornis Takakuwa, 1934d: 224–225 , fig. 5 (available name).

Rhysida longipes brevicornis (without attribution): Takakuwa 1940b: 53–55, figs 56–58; Shinohara et al. 2015: 877, 904.

Rhysida longipes longipes: Chao and Chang 2003: 4 (list), 8, table 1 (list), figs 10–11; Chao and Chang 2008: 1, 6, 10, 11, 15, table 3, figs 7, 8.

Rhysida longipes: Siriwut et al. 2018: 1013 (key), 1017–1022, figs 5, 7, 8; Joshi et al. 2020: 840–843, table 1 (list), figs 8, 9.

Type series. No types were designated, and the composition of the specimens was not explicitly stated in the original description ( Takakuwa 1934d). Takashima (1954) reported that a holotype was preserved, but we could not find the holotype in the Miyosi Collection and thus assume it has been lost.

Type locality. Tainan, Taiwan .

Japanese name. The name “On-rishidamukade” was introduced by Takakuwa (1934d).

Remarks. In ChiloBase 2.0 (Bonato et al. 2016g), the authorship of brevicornis is correctly cited as Takakuwa (1934d), but nonetheless, this subspecies was synonymized with R. l. longipes ( Newport, 1845) by Chao and Chan (2003).

Takakuwa (1938a) erroneously cited Takakuwa (1934d) as “Trans. Nat. His. Soc. Formosa, Vol. 24, No. 132, 1932”, and Murakami (1993) listed brevicornis as “ Rhysida longipes brevicornis Takakuwa, 1932 ”. As was noted in connection with M. brevisternalis and M. ongi , a misdated reprint of Takakuwa (1934d) may explain the cause of these errors.