Bothropolys crassidentatus Takakuwa & Takashima 1949
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Bothropolys crassidentatus Takakuwa & Takashima, 1949
Takakuwa & Takashima, 1949: 59; Wang & Mauriès, 1996: 91; Zapparoli, 2006.
Diagnosis: Body length 10.5–20.0 mm, antennae composed of 20+20 antennomeres; 15–20 ocelli arranged in 4 rows on each side; Tömösváry’s organ rounded, moderately small, about equal to the adjoining ocelli; 7+7– 7+8 blunt prosternal teeth, usually 7+7; porodonts thick and strong, posterolateral to lateral tooth; posterior angles of TT 6 and 7 feebly triangular, posterior angles of TT 9, 11, 13 sharply triangular; pretarsus of all legs with claws; moderately long accessory claws on legs 1–13, no accessory claws on legs 14 and 15; coxal pores round or ovate, 11–34 irregularly arranged coxal pores; female gonopods with 2+2 bullet-shaped spurs and tridentate claws; male gonopods short and thick, only a half-ball protuberance, with 4–5 long setae, distally slightly sclerotised.
Material examined. 1 Ψ, Suifenhe City, Heilongjiang Province, 44°24'N 131°12'E, 15 July 2003, leg. Feng Zhang. 1 ɗ, Qingliangdian Town, Wuyi County, Hengshui City, Hebei Province, 37°36'N 115°48'E, 5 May 2005, leg. Hui-Qin Ma. 1 Ψ, Kongdong Island, Yantai City, Shandong Province, 37°30'N 121°30'E, 6 July 2005, leg. Hui-Qin Ma.
Distribution: China (Heilongjiang, Hebei, Shandong, Shaanxi).
Remarks: Takakuwa and Takashima’s original description of this species based on a single female specimen from Shaanxi Province, though brief, is easily recognizable. Their record remains the only north Chinese record.
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- Is part of
- Journal article: 10.5281/zenodo.182487 (DOI)
- Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FFC7FFC9F855697EFFADFFC95C65FFFC (URL)
- Is source of
- https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/03FE87B1F854697CFF3AFA445C8FFED6 (URL)
- https://www.gbif.org/species/119368829 (URL)
- https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/49458/taxon/03FE87B1F854697CFF3AFA445C8FFED6.taxon (URL)
Biodiversity
- Family
- Lithobiidae
- Genus
- Bothropolys
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Lithobiomorpha
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Takakuwa & Takashima
- Species
- crassidentatus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Bothropolys crassidentatus Takakuwa, 1949 sec. Ma, Song & Zhu, 2008
References
- Takakuwa, Y. & Takashima H. (1949) Myriapods collected in Shanxi, North China. Acta Arachnologica, 11 (1 - 2), 51 - 69.
- Wang, D. Q. & Mauris J. P. (1996) Review and perspective of study on Myriapodology of China. Acta Myriapodologica, Mmoires du Musum national d`Histoire naturelle, Paris, 169, 81 - 99.
- Zapparoli, M. (2006) Lithobiidae. In: Minelli A. (ed.) A World Catalogue of Centipedes (Chilopoda), http: // chilobase. bio. unipd. it / docs / chilobase. php