Plutonodomus Cooke, 1964
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Genus Plutonodomus Cooke, 1964 View in CoL
Plutonodomus Cooke, 1964: 280 View in CoL (Type species by monotypy, Plutonodomus kungwensis Cooke, 1964 View in CoL ).
Remarks. Plutonodomus is the only known African Prodidominae genus that shows adaptations to a subterranean environment. Plutonodomus kungwensis Cooke, 1964 was collected in a termite nest ( Microtermes sp.) at the edge of a gallery forest ( Cooke 1964). It is known solely from the female holotype and no additional material belonging to this species was examined in this study.
Diagnosis and description. See Plutonodomus kungwensis .
Composition. Monotypic: P. kungwensis Cooke, 1964 .
Distribution. Kungwe-Mahali Mts., Tanzania ( Fig. 36 View FIGURE 36 ).
No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.
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Plutonodomus Cooke, 1964
| Rodrigues, Bruno V. B. & Rheims, Cristina A. 2020 |
Plutonodomus
| Cooke, J. A. L. 1964: 280 |