Belzebub, Vereshchaka & Olesen & Lunina, 2016

Vereshchaka, Alexander L., Olesen, Jørgen & Lunina, Anastasia A., 2016, A phylogeny-based revision of the family Luciferidae (Crustacea: Decapoda), Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 178 (1), pp. 15-32 : 26-28

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.1111/zoj.12398
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5459372
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scientific name	Belzebub
status	gen. nov.

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KEY TO SPECIES OF BELZEBUB View in CoL GEN. NOV.

1. Petasma: sheath bottle-shaped, with distal transverse rows of ridges, plate-like structures large and fringed ( Fig. 5C, D View Figure 5 ) ……. B. intermedius ( Hansen, 1919) View in CoL comb. nov.

– Petasma: sheath subconical, with distal longitudinal rows of fine scales, plate-like structures small, with entire margins ( Fig. 7F View Figure 7 ) ……… 2

2. Petasma: processus ventralis bearing a dense brush of long terminal setae ( Fig. 6D – F View Figure 6 ) ………. B. penicillifer ( Hansen, 1919) View in CoL comb. nov.

– Petasma: processus ventralis with short, scattered lateral setae only, without dense brush of terminal setae ( Figs 7F View Figure 7 , 8D View Figure 8 ) …….. 3

3. Outer tooth of uropodal exopod far from reaching distal end of exopod; petasma: processus ventralis setose along medial part ( Fig. 7G, F View Figure 7 ) …… B. hanseni ( Nobili, 1905) View in CoL comb. nov.

– Outer tooth of uropodal exopod nearly reaching distal end of exopod; petasma: processus ventralis setose along distal part ( Fig. 8D View Figure 8 ) …….. 4

4. Atlantic species …… B. faxoni ( Borradaile, 1915) View in CoL comb. nov.

– Indo-Pacific species ………. B. chacei ( Bowman & McCain, 1967) View in CoL comb. nov.

References

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Figures

Figure 5. Petasma of Belzebub intermedius (Hansen, 1919) comb. nov.: general structure (A), apical view of the sheath (B, scanning electron micrograph), lateral view of the sheath and the processus ventralis (C, D, scanning electron micrographs). Arrows point at same morphological structures.

Figure 6. Petasma of Belzebub peпicillifer (Hansen, 1919) comb. nov.: general structure (A), apical view of the petasma (B, scanning electron micrograph), apical view of the sheath (C, scanning electron micrograph), lateral view of the sheath and the processus ventralis (D, E, scanning electron micrographs), apex of the processus ventralis (F, scanning electron micrograph). Arrows point at same morphological structures.

Figure 7. Petasma of Belzebub hanseni (Nobili, 1905) comb. nov.: ‘thumb’ (A, scanning electron micrograph), general structure (B), apical view of the petasma (C, scanning micrograph), lateral view of the sheath and the processus ventralis (D, scanning electron micrograph, E), apex of processus ventralis and the sheath (F, G, scanning electron micrographs). Arrows point at same morphological structures.

Figure 8. Petasma of Belzebub faxoni (Borradaile, 1915) comb. nov.: ‘thumb’ (A, scanning electron micrograph), general structure (B), apical view of the petasma (C, scanning electron micrograph), lateral view of the sheath and the processus ventralis (D, scanning electron micrograph, E, scanning electron micrograph, F), distal part of the sheath with apical scales (G–I, scanning electron micrographs). Arrows point at same morphological structures.