Obelostreptus proximospinosus Krabbe 1982
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 proximospinosus Krabbe, 1982
Fig. 2A–D
Obelostreptus proximospinosus Krabbe, 1982: 419. Abb. 267.
Material examined: Holotype ♂: TANZANIA: Usambara Mts. Amani, at Dodwe River, in rotten wood, c. 1000 m, 31.vii.1974, I. Bødker-Enghoff & H. Enghoff (ZMUC). Additional material: numerous further specimens from Amani (ZMUC).
Remarks: Examination of many specimens (including the holotype) housed in the ZMUC revealed that the drawing of the gonopod coxite made by Krabbe (1982) is slightly erroneous. According to Krabbe, the distal part of the coxite forms a unique lobe, but our observations clearly show that this part of the coxite is bilobed (Fig. 2B). Other than that, the description and drawings are adequate. SEM illustrations of first leg and gonopod are given in Fig. 2.
Females slightly longer and wider than males; vulva poorly sclerotized, located in a pouch behind coxosternite of second legs. Valves smooth with an elongated apical appendix (Fig. 2D).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Collection code
- ZMUC
- Event date
- 1974-07-31
- Family
- Spirostreptidae
- Genus
- Obelostreptus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Spirostreptida
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Krabbe
- Species
- proximospinosus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype
- Verbatim event date
- 1974-07-31
- Taxonomic concept label
- Obelostreptus proximospinosus Krabbe, 1982 sec. Mwabvu & VandenSpiegel, 2015
References
- KRABBE, E. 1982. Systematik der Spirostreptidae (Diplopoda, Spirostreptomorpha). Abhandlungen des Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereins in Hamburg (NF) 24. Hamburg: Verlag Paul Parey.