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Ityphilus Cook 1899

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Genus Ityphilus Cook, 1899

Diagnosis: Antennae slightly to strongly clavate, moderately to conspicuously geniculate. Mid-piece of labrum membranous, without teeth or with minute hair-like structures. Forcipular coxosternite with incomplete to nearly complete chitin-lines; internal edge of forcipular tarsungulum smooth to conspicuously serrate or dentate. Ventral pore-fields of anterior region of the body single (subcircular to transversally elliptical), those of posterior region of the body single or divided into two areas. Coxopleura of the last leg-bearing segment each with two internal coxal organs of simple structure (“homogeneous coxal glands”, sensu Brölemann & Ribaut (1912)). Legs of the ultimate pair with seven articles, ultimate pretarsus setiform, basally tubercle-like and usually accompanied by a minute spine.

Type species of the genus: Ityphilus lilacinus Cook, 1899, by original designation.

Remarks: All species currently assigned to the genus are listed in Minelli, 2006; Bonato et al. 2007.

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Published as part of Pereira, Luis Alberto, 2010, First Record Of A Ballophilid Centipede From French Guiana With A Description Of Ityphilus Betschi Sp. Nov. (Myriapoda: Chilopoda: Geophilomorpha), pp. 643-665 in Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia 50 (42) on page 644, DOI: 10.1590/S0031-10492010004200001, http://zenodo.org/record/13307593

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Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Cook
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Geophilomorpha
Family
Ballophilidae
Genus
Ityphilus
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Ityphilus Cook, 1899 sec. Pereira, 2010

References

  • COOK, O. F. 1899. The Geophiloidea of the Florida Keys. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington, 4 (3): 303 - 312.
  • BROLEMANN, H. W. & RIBAUT, H. 1912. Essai d' une monographie des Schendylina (Myriapodes, Geophilomorphes). Nouvelles Archives du Museum national d' Histoire naturelle, Paris, Serie 5, 4: 53 - 183.
  • MINELLI, A. (EDITOR). 2006. Chilobase: A World Catalogue of Centipedes (Chilopoda) for the Web. Available at: <http: // chilobase. bio. unipd. it> Access in: 01 / Mar. / 2007.
  • BONATO, L.; PEREIRA, L. A. & MINELLI, A. 2007. Taxonomic and nomenclatural notes on the centipede genera Chomatobius, Ityphilus, Hapleurytion, Plateurytion, and Steneurytion (Chilopoda: Geophilomorpha). Zootaxa, 1485: 1 - 12.