Ribautiella zagnanadina Brölemann, 1926

Camacho, Miguel Domínguez & Vandenspiegel, Didier, 2012, Scolopendrellidae (Myriapoda, Symphyla) from the Afrotropics with descriptions of seven new species, European Journal of Taxonomy 32, pp. 1-28 : 25-26

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5852/ejt.2012.32
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:778FFF1D-32E1-466B-82DB-BF9B30C2ABE1
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3859007
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/D20C87AB-AF58-4846-DB27-A6EAFE9DFDFE
treatment provided by	Valdenar
scientific name	Ribautiella zagnanadina Brölemann, 1926
status

Treatment

Ribautiella zagnanadina Brölemann, 1926 View in CoL

Fig. 11 View Fig A-C

Material examined

2 juveniles with 10 and 11 pairs of legs, CAMEROON, Kounden, 05º42’ N, 010º40’ E, Eucalyptus woodland, coll. Lejeune, Jul.-Aug. 1974; 3 adults, IVORY COAST, Banco, coll. Remy, 20 Apr. 1950 ( MRAC 7833).

Diagnosis

This species is characterised by the presence of many setae on the anterior part of the second tergite ( Fig. 11A View Fig ) and the cerci ( Fig. 11B View Fig ). Additional diagnostic features to distinguish this species from the other one studied here – Ribautiella schoutedeni – are the shape of the head, 1.2 times as long as wide ( Fig. 11A View Fig ), the moderate size of the penultimate tergite, 0.6 times as long as the last one, the straighter posterior margin of the last one ( Fig. 11B View Fig ), and the absence of striae on the terminal area of the cerci ( Fig. 11C View Fig ).