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Ribautia aggregata
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Myriapoda
Class:	Chilopoda
Order:	Geophilomorpha
Family:	Geophilidae
Genus:	Ribautia
Species:	R. aggregata
Binomial name
	Ribautia aggregata; (Brölemann, 1915)
Synonyms
	Schizoribautia aggregatum Brölemann, 1915; Schizoribautia aggregatus Chamberlin, 1920;

Ribautia aggregata is a species of centipede in the Geophilidae family. It is endemic to Australia, and was first described in 1915 by French myriapodologist Henry Wilfred Brolemann.^[1]^[2] Females of this species have 67 to 71 pairs of legs and are about 50 mm long.^[1]

Distribution

The species occurs in New South Wales.^[3]

The centipedes are solitary terrestrial predators that inhabit plant litter, soil and rotting wood.^[3]

^ ^a ^b ^c Brölemann, HW (1915). "Description of a new species of Myriapoda from New South Wales". Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales. 40 (4): 683–684 [683]. doi:10.5962/bhl.part.18888.
^ Bonato L.; Chagas Junior A.; Edgecombe G.D.; Lewis J.G.E.; Minelli A.; Pereira L.A.; Shelley R.M.; Stoev P.; Zapparoli M. (2016). "ChiloBase 2.0". A World Catalogue of Centipedes (Chilopoda). Rosario Dioguardi and Giuseppe Cortese, University of Padua. Retrieved 24 February 2023.
^ ^a ^b "Species Ribautia aggregata (Brölemann, 1915)". Australian Faunal Directory. Dept of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water, Australia. 2010. Retrieved 24 February 2023.