Bidentogon californicus ( Chamberlin, 1918 )

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), Zootaxa 296 (1), pp. 1-12 : 10-11

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.296.1.1

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5014409

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Bidentogon californicus ( Chamberlin, 1918 )
status

 

Bidentogon californicus ( Chamberlin, 1918) View in CoL

Brachydesmus californicus Chamberlin, 1918:9 View in CoL . Attems, 1940:139. Chamberlin and Hoffman, 1958:64. Buckett, 1964:11.

Bidentogon helferorum Buckett and Gardner, 1968:198­202 View in CoL , figs. 1­7. Shear, 1972:490, figs. 1–3. Hoffman, 1999:438. Shelley, 2002:108. New Synonymy.

Type specimen. Probable male holotype ( NMNH) taken by an unknown collector in January 1910 at Stanford , Santa Clara County, California .

Diagnosis. Tibiotarsus tapering distad, apically narrow and acuminate ( Shear, 1972, figs. 1­2).

Description. As reported by Buckett and Gardner (1968) for B. helferorum .

Ecology. No habitat information was provided on vial labels in the new samples, but the type specimen of B. helferorum was collected in a pine, oak, and coastal chaparral community ( Buckett & Gardner, 1968).

Distribution. Coastal California from Mendocino to Santa Cruz counties including those around San Francisco Bay. New samples are available as follows:

CALIFORNIA: Alameda Co., Berkeley , 4, 20 December 1959, D. D. Linsdale ( UCB) and ♂, ♀, 18 December 1946, H. P. Chandler ( FSCA) ; and Oakland , ♂, ♀, 8 February 1953, R. O. Schuster ( NMNH) . Marin Co., Stinson Beach , 2♂, 10♀, 24 December 1980, A. K. Johnson ( NCSM) ; 1 mi (1.6 km) W Olema , 2♂, 2♀, 28 February 1976, J. T. Doyen ( UCB) ; and 2 mi (3.2 km) E Pt. Reyes Station , 2♂, 19 December 1960, J. S. Buckett ( NCSM) and ♂, ♀, 25 December 1961, C. W. O’Brien ( FSCA) . Mendocino Co., Mendocino , ♂, 2♀, 9 March 1968, J. R. Helfer ( UCD) . San Mateo Co., Portola Valley vic., nr. jct. Portola St. & San Gregorio Rd. , ♂, 25 June 1961, W. H. Lange ( FSCA) . Santa Clara Co., Stanford, campus of Stanford University , ♂, 20 March 1931, collector unknown ( NMNH) ; Milpitas , 2♂, 1 February 1928, J. C. Chamberlin ( NMNH) ; and Mt. Madonna , ♀, 2 January 1954, collector unknown ( FSCA) . Santa Cruz Co., Ben Lomond , ♂, 22 January 1955, D. Burdick, M. Wasbauer ( UCB) .

NMNH

Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History

UCB

University of California at Berkeley

FSCA

Florida State Collection of Arthropods, The Museum of Entomology

NCSM

North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences

UCD

University of California, Davis

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Diplopoda

Order

Polydesmida

Family

Polydesmidae

Genus

Bidentogon

Loc

Bidentogon californicus ( Chamberlin, 1918 )

Shelley, Rowland M. 2003
2003
Loc

Bidentogon helferorum

Shelley, R. M. 2002: 108
Hoffman, R. L. 1999: 438
Shear, W. A. 1972: 490
Buckett, J. S. & Gardner, M. R. 1968: 202
1968
Loc

Brachydesmus californicus

Buckett, J. S. 1964: 11
Chamberlin, R. V. & Hoffman, R. L. 1958: 64
Attems, C. 1940: 139
Chamberlin, R. V. 1918: 9
1918
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