Alloschizotaenia
''Alloschizotaenia'' is a genus of soil centipedes in the family Geophilidae. This genus contains only three valid species. Centipedes in this genus are found in central and east Africa. Discovery, taxonomy, and distribution This genus was first proposed by the French myriapodologist Henri W. Brölemann in 1909 to contain the type species '' Alloschizotaenia minuta,'' which was originally described under the name ''Schizotaenia minuta'' by the Italian zoologist Filippo Silvestri in 1907. Silvestri described of this species based on a small male specimen measuring only 9 mm in length. This specimen was found in Amani, in the Usumbara mountains, in what is now Tanzania. In 1909, the Austrian myriapodologist Carl Attems described ''Schizotaenia pluvia'' as a new species based on syntypes including both sexes. These specimens were collected by the Swedish naturalist Yngve Sjöstedt from Mount Meru in 1905 and 1906 in what is now Tanzania. One syntype of each sex and othe ...
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