Bicoxidens, Attems, 1928

Mwabvu, Tarombera, Hamer, Michelle & Slotow, Robert, 2009, A new species of Bicoxidens Attems, 1928 (Diplopoda, Spirostreptida, Spirostreptidae) from northern Zimbabwe, ZooKeys 7 (7), pp. 75-81 : 80

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.3897/zookeys.7.106

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:5E30F73A-11FB-4441-8A1E-5DB9132C05C6

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3792448

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/820887DD-FFD6-8F31-FCCB-FB65B360F4E7

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Bicoxidens
status

 

Bicoxidens View in CoL

species in Mwabvu et al. (2007) in order to accommodate aridis . Th is becomes the first couplet because the shape of the distal region of the telocoxite and the structure of the telopodite distinguish aridis from congeners:

1 Apical metaplica hook-shaped and with a median cavity ( Figs. 1a, 1b View Figure 1 ), without produced lateral or median processes; post knee telopodite not L-shaped ( Fig. 1a View Figure 1 ), with a clockwise coil after the femoral lobes and without looping at the extremity ( Fig. 2 View Figure 2 ) .............................................. Bicoxidens aridis View in CoL sp. n.

– Apical metaplica not hook-shaped and without a median cavity; with produced lateral or median processes; post knee telopodite L-shaped, without a clockwise coil after the femoral lobes and with looping at the extremity........ .................................................................. 2 (all other Bicoxidens View in CoL species, see key in Mwabvu et al. (2007))

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