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Levizonus Attems 1931

Authors/Creators

  • 1. Federal Scientific Center of the East Asia Terrestrial Biodiversity, Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok 690022, Russia.

Description

Key to the species of Levizonus

1. Metatergal surface with low bosses either everywhere (Fig. 1A–B) or only laterally. Gonopods as in Fig. 2A–D …………………………………………………………… L. circularis Takakuwa, 1942

– Metatergal surface smooth, without any bosses.Gonopods different…………………………………2

2. Apex of gonopod telopodite like two plates placed perpendicular to each other (Fig. 6A–B) ……………………………………………………… L. malewitschi Lokschina & Golovatch, 1977

– Apex of gonopod telopodite not like two plates placed perpendicular to each other ………3

3. SL with a large long H basally (Fig. 4B–D)…………………… L. distinctus Mikhaljova, 1990

– SL without a large long H basally ………………………………………………………………4

4. Telopodite apex trifurcate ………………………………………… L. takakuwai (Verhoeff, 1941)

– Telopodite apex not trifurcate ……………………………………………………………………5

5. SL massive, dentiform. (Fig. 5B–D) …………………………… L. laqueatus Mikhaljova, 1981

– SL not massive, not dentiform ……………………………………………………………………6

6. Apical edge of telopodite without numerous small outgrowths …… L. montanus (Takakuwa, 1941)

– Apical edge of telopodite with one to numerous small outgrowths, seldom smooth ………………7

7. Telopodite subapically with lateral large knee-shaped protrusion (K) (Fig. 8C). Telopodite apex narrower (Fig. 8D) …………………………………………… L. nakhodka Mikhaljova sp. nov.

– Telopodite subapically with lateral small rounded protrusion (K1) (Fig. 10A–D). Telopodite apex broader (Fig. 11A) …………………………………………………… L. thaumasius Attems, 1898

Notes

Published as part of Mikhaljova, Elena V., 2021, Review of the millipede genus Levizonus Attems, 1898, with description of a new species from the Far East of Russia (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Xystodesmidae), pp. 159-184 in European Journal of Taxonomy 751 on page 178, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2021.751.1387, http://zenodo.org/record/4923494

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Attems
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Polydesmida
Family
Xystodesmidae
Genus
Levizonus
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Levizonus Attems, 1931 sec. Mikhaljova, 2021

References

  • Takakuwa Y. 1942. Zur Kenntnis der Japanischen Diplopoden. Annotationes Zoologicae Japonenses 21: 39 - 47.
  • Lokschina I. E. & Golovatch S. I. 1977. The new myriapods (Diplopoda) from the USSR. Byulleten Moskovskogo obshchestva ispytateley prirodi, Biology 82 (1): 73 - 78. [In Russian.]
  • Mikhaljova E. V. 1990. On the fauna of Diplopoda of the USSR Far East. Zoologicheskii Zhurnal 69 (5): 134 - 138. [In Russian, English summary.]
  • Verhoeff K. W. 1941. Uber Gruppen der Leptodesmiden und neues System der Ordo Polydesmoidea. Archiv fur Naturgeschichte 10 (3): 399 - 415.
  • Takakuwa Y. 1941. Weitere japanische Lithobius - Arten und zwei neue Diplopoden. Transactions of the Sapporo Natural History Society 17 (1): 1 - 9.
  • Attems C. 1898. System der Polydesmiden, I. Denkschriften der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Classe 67 (1): 221 - 482.