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Bidentogon expansus Shelley 2003, new species
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Bidentogon expansus, new species
Bidentogon californicus: Shear, 1972:490–492, figs. 4–5. Hoffman, 1999:438. Shelley, 2002: 108.
Type specimens. Male holotype and one male and two female paratypes (MCZ) collected by M. G. Childs in January 1914 in Sacramento, Sacramento County, California.
Diagnosis Tibiotarsus expanding distad, apically broad and spatulate (Shear 1972, figs. 45).
Ecology. The types were collected from debris in a hollow apple tree.
Distribution. Known only from the type locality.
Notes
Published as part of Shelley, Rowland M., 2003, A new polydesmid milliped genus and two new species from Oregon and Washington, U. S. A., with a review of Bidentogon Buckett and Gardner, 1968, and a summary of the family in Western North America (Polydesmida: Polydesmidae), pp. 1-12 in Zootaxa 296 (1) on page 11, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.296.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5014425
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- MCZ
- Scientific name authorship
- Shelley
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Polydesmida
- Family
- Polydesmidae
- Genus
- Bidentogon
- Species
- expansus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic status
- sp. nov.
- Type status
- holotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Bidentogon expansus Shelley, 2003
References
- Shear, W. A. (1972) The milliped genus Bidentogon (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Trichopolydesmidae). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 85, 489 - 492.
- Hoffman, R. L. (1999) Checklist of the Millipeds of North and Middle America. Virginia Mu s eum of Natural History Special Publication No. 8, 1 - 584.
- Shelley, R. M. (2002) Annotated checklist of the millipeds of California (Arthropoda: Diplopoda). Monographs of the Western North American Naturalist, 1, 90 - 115.