Schendylops, Cook, 1899

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

KEY TO THE MADAGASCAR SPECIES OF SCHENDYLOPS

(updating the previous key in Hoffman & Pereira 1997)

1. Ventral pore fields on both anterior and posterior sterna ...................................... 2

— Ventral pore fields on anterior sterna only ............................................................ 4

2. Pore fields ending on antepenultimate sternum; 1+1 setae on the coxosternum of the first maxillae; 65 p. l. (♀) .................................................................. S. mascarenicus

— Pore fields ending on penultimate sternum; no setae on the coxosternum of the first maxillae; either 55 or 75 p. l. .................................................................................. 3

3. Coxosternum of the second maxillae with c. 28 setae; 75 p. l. (Ƌ); basal internal edge of forcipular tarsungulum unarmed; ratio of length of tarsus to length of metatarsus of Ƌ terminal legs c. 1.25:1 ( Fig. 4A ) ...................................................... S. insolitus

— Coxosternum of the second maxillae with c. 19 setae; 55 p. l. (Ƌ); basal internal edge of forcipular tarsungulum with a small tubercle; ratio of length of tarsus to length of

Figures

FIG. 4. — Schendylops insolitus (Lawrence, 1960), Ƌ holotype, Madagascar, Moramanga; A, last leg-bearing segment and terminal segments,dorsal; B, the same, ventral; C, right coxal organs, ventral; D, detail of distal end of last podomere of right last leg, ventral;