Lamyctes leleupi Matic & Darabantu, 1977:357
Leleup’s centipede
Taxonomy & Nomenclature
Conservation Status
Last record: 1966 (Fowler et al., 2025)
Rediscovered in: 2013 by Liza Fowler (Anonymous, 2016 [rediscovery; name; no date]; Fowler et al., 2025 [date only])
Distribution
St. Helena (=Saint Helena)
Type locality: Sainte-Héléne, High Central Ridge (Atlantic Ocean) (Bonato et al., 2016)
Biology & Ecology
Hypodigm
Media
References
Original scientific description:
Matic, Z. and Darabantu, C. (1977). Chilopoda. In: La Faune Terrestre de l’Île de Sainte-Hélène: Quatrième Partie - Annales, MuséeRoyal de l’Afrique Centrale, Serie in-8°, Sciences Zoologiques 220: 345-359.
Other references:
Anonymous. (2016, February 3). New bugs discovered on remote Atlantic island. Buglife - The Invertebrate Conservation Trust. Available at: https://web.archive.org/web/20160204094319/https://www.buglife.org.uk/news-&-events/news/new-bugs-discovered-on-remote-atlantic-island [Accessed 4 February 2016]
Ashmole, P. and Ashmole, M. (2000). St Helena and Ascension Island: a natural history. Anthony Nelson, Oswestry, U.K.
Bonato, L., Chagas Junior, A., Edgecombe, G. D., Lewis, J. G. E., Minelli, A., Pereira, L. A., Shelley, R. M., Stoev, P. and Zapparoli, M. (2016). ChiloBase 2.0 - A World Catalogue of Centipedes (Chilopoda). Available at: https://chilobase.biologia.unipd.it.
Fowler, L., Stevens, N., Key, R., Peyton, J., Scipio-O'Dean, C. J., Sherwood, D., Sharp, A. and Wilkins, V. L. (2025). Lamyctes leleupi. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2025: e.T65585171A65585174. Accessed on 06 April 2025.
Key, R., Fowler, L. and Pryce, D. (2021). Terrestrial and Freshwater Invertebrates of St Helena. Pisces Publications.
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