Callistodontopyge Hoffman & Howell, 1981

Enghoff, Henrik, 2022, Mountains of millipedes. The family Odontopygidae in the Eastern Arc Mountains of Tanzania (Diplopoda, Spirostreptida), European Journal of Taxonomy 803, pp. 1-136 : 22

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https://doi.org/ 10.5852/ejt.2022.803.1691

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6359032

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scientific name

Callistodontopyge Hoffman & Howell, 1981
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Genus Callistodontopyge Hoffman & Howell, 1981 View in CoL

Type species

Callistodontopyge decora Hoffman & Howell, 1981 ( Tanzania) View in CoL , by original designation, now a synonym of C. latifolia ( Attems, 1914) View in CoL , see below.

Other included species

Four ( Hoffman 2002).

Remarks

An easily recognized genus of usually bright and contrastfully coloured species ( Fig. 12 View Fig ), also unusual among odontopygids by their comparatively compact body and by the trilobed distal margin of the male mandibular stipes ( Fig. 3B View Fig ). The five included species are distributed in Somalia, eastern Kenya and northern Tanzania ( Hoffman & Howell 1981; Hoffman 2002).

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