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Thalkethops Crabill 1960

Description

Thalkethops Crabill, 1960

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Type species. Thalkethops grallatrix Crabill, 1960 (by monotypy).

Diagnosis. Sternites without lateral margination as well as both median and transverse sutures but with “a shallow midlongitudinal and rather broad sulcus” according to the original description.

Number of species. 1.

Remarks. Treated as a genus in Edgecombe & Bonato (2011: 405), Bonato et al. (2016), Lewis (2016b: 26). In his short and undetailed account on Kethopinae, Shelley (2002: 78) reasonably mentioned that “There is very little difference between Thalkethops and Kethops, and they may have to merged when more material of both is available”, noting (p. 79) 6 other (in addition to the holotype) available specimens from six “new localities” (all in New Mexico) and mentioning that “No observable variation is evident”.

Notes

Published as part of Schileyko, Arkady A., Vahtera, Varpu & Edgecombe, Gregory D., 2020, An overview of the extant genera and subgenera of the order Scolopendromorpha (Chilopoda): a new identification key and updated diagnoses, pp. 1-64 in Zootaxa 4825 (1) on page 11, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4825.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/4402145

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References

  • Crabill, R. E. Jr. (1960) A new American genus of cryptopid centipedes, with an annotated key to the scolopendromorph genera of America North of Mexico. Proceedings of the United States National Museum, 111, 1 - 15.
  • Edgecombe, G. D. & Bonato, L. (2011) Chilopoda-taxonomic overview. Order Scolopendromorpha. In: Minelli, A. (Ed.), Treatise on Zoology-Anatomy, Taxonomy, Biology. The Myriapoda. Vol. 1. Brill, Leiden, pp. 392 - 407.
  • 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). Available from: http: // chilobase. biologia. unipd. it (accessed 2 August 2016)
  • Lewis, J. G. E. (2016 b) On the consistency of some taxonomic characters in the Scolopendromorpha and comments on the scolopocryptopid subfamily Kethopinae (Myriapoda: Chilopoda). Acta Societatis Zoologicae Bohemicae, 80, 21 - 31.
  • Shelley, R. M. (2002) A synopsis of the North American centipedes of the order Scolopendromorpha (Chilopoda). Virginia Museum of Natural History, 5, 1 - 108.