Schendylops grandidieri ( De Saussure & Zehntner, 1897 )

Pereira, Luis A., Minelli, Alessandro & Uliana, Marco, 2004, The species of Schendylops Cook, 1899 (Chilopoda, Geophilomorpha, Schendylidae) from Madagascar, Zoosystema 26 (4), pp. 727-752 : 749

Schendylops grandidieri ( De Saussure & Zehntner, 1897)

( Fig. 15E )

Schendyla Grandidieri De Saussure & Zehntner, 1897 : pl. XII, figs 8a- 8g; 1902: 332.

Schendylops grandidieri – Cook 1899: 305. — Brölemann & Ribaut 1912: 169. — Hoffman & Pereira 1997: 13.

TYPE LOCALITY. — Madagascar: Sikora.

DISTRIBUTION. — Madagascar: Sikora.

DIAGNOSIS. — A Schendylops species with v. pore fields extending along the whole body length. Of the other Madagascar Schendylops species this trait is present only in S. mascarenicus and S. insolitus . Characters in Table 5 and in the key differentiate Schendylops grandidieri from these two species and from the other Madagascar congeners.

Figures

FIG. 15. — A-D, Schendylops silvicola (Lawrence, 1960), ♀ holotype, Madagascar, Ankaratra; A, last leg-bearing segment and terminal segments,dorsal; B, the same, ventral; C, left coxal organs, ventral; D, detail of distal end of last podomere of left last leg, dorsal; E, Schendylops grandidieri (De Saussure & Zehntner, 1897) (Ƌ lectotype, Madagascar, Sikora), last leg-bearing segment and