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Eurygyrus xanthinus

Description

Eurygyrus xanthinus (Newport, 1844)

Platops Xanthina Newport, 1844, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 1, 13: 267. Type (whereabouts unknown) from the valley of Xanthus, Asia Minor.

Lysiopetalum Xanthinum: Gervais, 1847, Hist. Nat. Ins. Apt., 4: 133.

Megastrephon xanthinum: Cook, 1895, Am. Natur., 29: 1019.

Eurygyrus xanthinus: Hoffman & Lohmander, 1964, Mitt. Hamb. Zool. Mus. Inst., 62: 142, figs 34–36, 47. Hoffman, 1973, Mitt. Hamb. Zool. Mus. Inst., 69: 96. Glaubrecht & Spelda, 1993, Mitt. Hamb. Zool. Mus. Inst., 90: 301. Stoev & Enghoff, 2004, Zootaxa, 419: 7. Enghoff, 2006, Steenstrupia, 29 (2): 188.

Range: southern Turkey.

Notes

Published as part of Stoev, Pavel, Sierwald, Petra & Billey, Amber, 2008, An annotated world catalogue of the millipede order Callipodida (Arthropoda: Diplopoda) *, pp. 1-50 in Zootaxa 1706 on page 28, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.180904

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Newport
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Callipodida
Family
Schizopetalidae
Genus
Eurygyrus
Species
xanthinus
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Eurygyrus xanthinus (Newport, 1844) sec. Stoev, Sierwald & Billey, 2008

References

  • Gervais, P. (1847) Myriapodes. In: Walckenaer, B. & Gervais, P. (eds) Histoire naturelle des Insectes. Apteres. Tome Quatrieme. Librairie Encyclopedique de Roret, Paris, 1 - 333.
  • Cook, O. F. (1895) The genera of Lysiopetalidae. The American Naturalist, 29, 1017 - 1019.
  • Hoffman, R. & Lohmander, H. (1964) The Diplopoda of Turkey Part I. Introduction. Part II. Order Callipodida. Mitteilungen aus dem Hamburgischen Zoologischen Museum und Institut, 62, 101 - 151.
  • Hoffman, R. (1973) Studies on Anatolian callipodoid Diplopoda. Mitteilungen aus dem Hamburgischen Zoologischen Museum und Institut, 69, 81 - 108 (for 1972).
  • Glaubrecht, M. & Spelda, J. (1993) On the genus Eurygyrus Koch, 1847 (Diplopoda: Callipodida: Schizopetalidae) in the Dodecanese: zoogeography and female choice theory. Mitteilungen aus dem Hamburgischen Zoologischen Museum und Institut, 90, 285 - 311.
  • Stoev, P. & Enghoff, H. (2004) The first indigenous species of the millipede genus Eurygyrus C. L. Koch, 1847 from the European mainland, with remarks on E. nicarius (Verhoeff, 1901) and E. euboeus (Verhoeff, 1901), and a key to the species of the genus (Diplopoda: Callipodida: Schizopetalidae). Zootaxa, 419, 1 - 8.