Lophoturus Broelemann , 1931

Huynh, Cuong & Veenstra, Anneke A., 2018, Two new Lophoturus species (Diplopoda, Polyxenida, Lophoproctidae) from Queensland, Australia, ZooKeys 741, pp. 133-154 : 136

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Lophoturus Broelemann , 1931
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Genus Lophoturus Broelemann, 1931 View in CoL

Type species.

Lophoturus obscurus Brölemann, 1931.

Lophoturus , is a synonym of Alloproctinus Jeekel, 1963 and it was replaced by Alloproctus Silvestri, 1948; reassessed by Condé and Nguyen Duy-Jacquemin (1977). It is characterized by 0 to 4 pairs of linguiform processes on each side of median cleft of labrum and antennal article VI with 3 thick sensilla ( Ishii et al.1999: 252, key).