Rhysida

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

Species
There are about 40 species:


 * 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?)