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Obelostreptus acifer Attems 1909
Creators
- 1. School of Life Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Westville Campus, PB X 54001, Durban 4000, South Africa;
- 2. Royal Museum for Central Africa, Invertebrate Section, B- 3080 Tervuren, Belgium.
Description
Obelostreptus acifer Attems, 1909
Obelostreptus acifer Attems, 1909 b: 412, Taf. 18. Abb. 14–16 (D); 1914: 125 (+D); Manfredi 1936: 257 (C); Krabbe 1982: 417.
Material examined: Syntype ♂: ETHIOPIA: Abera (Djam-Djam), leg. Neumann, 20.xii.1900 (MV 2476). Remarks: No new material of O. acifer was available at the time of the study. However, based on material studied, the description of the species and illustrations of the gonopods are accurate.
Notes
Published as part of Mwabvu, T. & VandenSpiegel, D., 2015, A review of the genus Obelostreptus Attems, 1909 (Diplopoda, Spirostreptida, Spirostreptidae) with the description of a new species from Kenya, pp. 51 in African Invertebrates 56 (1) on page 53, DOI: 10.5733/afin.056.0106, http://zenodo.org/record/7661811
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- MV
- Event date
- 1900-12-20
- Family
- Spirostreptidae
- Genus
- Obelostreptus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Material sample ID
- MV 2476
- Order
- Spirostreptida
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Attems
- Species
- acifer
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- syntype
- Verbatim event date
- 1900-12-20
- Taxonomic concept label
- Obelostreptus acifer Attems, 1909 sec. Mwabvu & VandenSpiegel, 2015
References
- ATTEMS, C. 1909 a. Myriapoda. In: Schultze, L., ed., Zoologische und anthropologische Ergebnisse einer Forschungsreise im westlichen und zentralen Sudafrika, ausgefuhrt in den Jahren 1903 - 1905. Denkschriften der medizinisch-naturwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft zu Jena 14: 1 - 52.
- MANFREDI, P. 1936. Miriapodi della Somalia italiana, Diplopodi. Atti della Societa Italiana di Scienze Naturali e del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano 75: 243 - 262.
- KRABBE, E. 1982. Systematik der Spirostreptidae (Diplopoda, Spirostreptomorpha). Abhandlungen des Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereins in Hamburg (NF) 24. Hamburg: Verlag Paul Parey.