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
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Additional details
Identifiers
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.