Arkady A Schileyko

• PhD
• Researcher at Lomonosov Moscow State University

The paper provides new data and a synthesis on scolopendromorph centipedes of the island of Martinique. Some studied taxa are provided with new illustrated descriptions or diagnoses. Cryptops (Trigonocryptops) amicitia n. sp. is described and its systematic position discussed. Some data on the taxonomy of the subgenus Trigonocryptops Verhoeff, 1906...

The Vietnamese fauna of the genus Scolopocryptops Newport, 1844 was reviewed based on recently collected specimens and material from Zoological Museum of the Moscow Lomonosov State University and Naturhistorisches Museum Wien. As a result of study of 164 specimens from 13 sampling regions, four species have been recognized, of which S. rubiginosus...

Cormocephalus (C.) guildingii Newport, 1845—one of the oldest names in this genus—is described in detail for the first time, based on material from Western Mexico, Jamaica and the Dominican Republic; the range of this species is much expanded. Synonymy of C. impressus Porat, 1876 under C. guildingii is analyzed and confirmed. Relations between the...

The extant genera and subgenera of the order Scolopendromorpha are critically reviewed and provided with updated diagnoses and a new identification key; the most recent revisions of scolopendromorph genera are concisely summarised. Rhoda Meinert, 1886 and Cryptops (Chromatanops) Verhoeff, 1906 are suggested to be a junior synonyms of Scolopendropsi...

Citation: Schileyko AA, Solovyeva EN (2019) On the taxonomic position of the enigmatic genus Tonkinodentus Schileyko, 1992 (Chilopoda, Scolopendromorpha): the first molecular data. ZooKeys 840: 133-155. https://doi. Abstract The taxonomic position of the monotypic Vietnamese genus Tonkinodentus Schileyko, 1992 (for T. lestes Schileyko, 1992) has be...

The paper provides new data on seven scolopendromorph centipede species collected in Martinique Island. Two new species are described: Otostigmus (Parotostigmus) salticus n. sp. and Cryptops (Trigonocryptops) martinicensis n. sp.; their systematic position is discussed. Notes on the system of subgenus Trigonocryptops Verhoeff, 1906 are given and Cr...

This paper provides descriptions of three scolopendromorph centipede species collected in Saint Barthélemy Island. Two of them, Newportia heteropoda Chamberlin, 1918 and Cormocephalus impressus Porat, 1876 are redescribed and their systematic position is discussed. The taxonomic status of Newportia cubana Chamberlin, 1915 is revised, this nominal t...

The centipede fauna of the second largest island in the world, New Guinea, and its adjacent islands, is poorly known, with most information deriving from the first half of the 20 th century. Here we present new data on the order Scolopendromor-pha based on material collected in the area in the last 40 years, mainly by Bulgarian and Latvian zoologis...

The descriptions of twelve Venezuelan Scolopendromorpha, a list of species, identification key and detailed list of localities are presented. Cryptops (C.) venezuelae Chamberlin, 1939, known only from the holotype has been re-described and Scolopendra conjungens Muralewicz, 1913 reduced to a junior synonym of Scolopendra angulata Newport, 1844 syn....

A new species of the centipede genus Newportia, Newportia stoevi sp. n., is described from Rio Encantado Cave, Puerto Rico. It differs from all congeners by having sternites distinctly margined laterally and ultimate legs bearing 4 spinous processes on both prefemur and femur, and 2 on tibia. The value of some terms used in the taxonomy of the genu...

A new representative of the rare subfamily Ectonocryptopinae (Scolopocryptopidae) is described from western Belize as Ectonocryptoides sandrops sp. nov. Both previously known representatives of this subfamily (Ectonocryptops kraepelini Crabill, 1977 and Ectonocryptiodes quadrimeropus Shelley & Mercurio, 2005) and the new species have been compared...

The paper includes an updated identificational key for Scolopendromorpha of Vietnam, descriptions of studied representatives of Cryptopidae, an extended redescription of Tonkinodentus lestes Schileyko, 1992, a checklist of Vietnamese scolopendromorph centipedes seen by author, and a list of localities.

The holotype of Scolopendropsis bahiensis (Brandt, 1841), from Bahia, Brazil, recently relocated in the collection of the Zoological Institute in St. Petersburg, is redescribed. Since Rhoda calcarata (Pocock, 1891) is, except for two additional leg-bearing segments, almost identical to it, this form is considered to be a junior synonym of Scolopend...

The collection of scolopendromorph centipedes in the Natural History Museum in Vienna is one of the most important in the world, having been studied by Carl Graf Attems (1868-1952) for his renowned publica- tions on Scolopendromorpha. The present contribution provides necessary reidentifications as well as syno- nymies and adds important morphologi...

Myriapoda contains the four recent classes Chilopoda, Diplopoda, Pauropoda and Symphyla. In total, 159 families, 2166 genera and >15162 species are known world-wide. Twenty-nine families, >93 genera and >401 described species occur in Amazonia. One-fifth of the families presently known in the myriapods are represented in Amazonia. About 3% of all d...

A cladistic analysis of the order Scolopendromorpha was run using a set of 17 characters. The family Cryptopidae sensu Attems (1930, Das Tierreich 54) is shown to be paraphyletic, while the genus Plutonium appears to constitute a monotypic group deserving a very high rank. The possibility to recognize at least two monophyletic groups, Scolopendrina...

The class Chilopoda ought to be divided into Noto-and Pleurostigmophora in relation to its phylogeny. It is hard to speak about poly-vs. oligomerization as a general pathway in the evolution of the Chilopoda as a whole, chiefly due to an extremely early isolation of the Scutigeromorpha and a polymerous development in the Geophilomorpha. The family...

A key to the scolopendromophs of Vietnam is given, with the exception of the genus Cryptops. A new species, Otostigmus resrvatus, and two new subspecies, O.loriae nordicus and Scolopendra gracillima sternostriata, are described. Redescriptions of O.voprosus Schileyko, 1992 and O.ziesel Schileyko, 1992 are given.