Otostigmus species

Lewis, J. G. E., 2002, A re-examination of 11 species of Otostigmus from the Indo- Australian region described by R. V. Chamberlin based on type specimens in the collection of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard (Chilopoda; Scolopendromorpha; Scolopendridae), Journal of Natural History 36 (14), pp. 1687-1706 : 1703-1704

Otostigmus species of R. V. Chamberlin 1703

Description

Length 33 mm. Right with 18 antennomeres (17), the basal two glabrous.

Forcipular coxosternal teeth 31 3 with the two median partially fused (gure 54). Process of femoroid with a small inner tooth (gure 55).

Tergite paramedian sutures complete from 5, marginate from 9 or 10. Without

1704 J. G. E. Lewis keels, or spines, lateral corrugations very slight. Tergite 21 with median longitudinal depression occupying posterior third.

Paramedian sutures occupying at most the anterior third of each sternite. Sternites 14–19 with tubercles, some large and elongated, without depressions (gure 56). Sternite 21 narrowed posteriorly with the hind border incurved (gure 57).

Coxopleural process with two end spines and a subapical spine, two lateral and one dorsal spine (gure 58). Right end leg with four ventrolateral, two ventromedial, two dorsomedial and a corner spine (gure 59). Left end leg, which is regenerated, with three ventrolaterals, two plus three ventromedials, two medials, one dorsomedial spine and a corner spine.

Leg 2 with one tibial spine. Legs 2–5 with two tarsal spines, 6–20 with one. End leg without tarsal spine.

Remarks

Attems (1930) gave O. philippinus as a junior synonym of O. tuberculatus pauperatus Attems (1915) from New Guinea. This is here con rmed.