A new polydesmid milliped genus and two new species from Oregon and Washington, U. S. A., with a review of Bidentogon Buckett and Gardner, 1968, and a summary of the family in Western North America (Polydesmida: Polydesmidae)
Author
Shelley, Rowland M.
text
Zootaxa
2003
2003-09-16
296
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https://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.296.1.1
journal article
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10.11646/zootaxa.296.1.1
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Bidentogon expansus
,
new species
Bidentogon californicus
:
Shear, 1972:490–492
, figs. 4–5.
Hoffman, 1999:438
.
Shelley, 2002: 108
.
Type specimens.
Male
holotype
and
one male
and
two female
paratypes
(
MCZ
) collected by
M. G. Childs
in
January
1914
in
Sacramento
,
Sacramento County
,
California
.
Diagnosis
Tibiotarsus expanding distad, apically broad and spatulate (
Shear 1972
, figs. 45).
Ecology
. The
types
were collected from debris in a hollow apple tree.
Distribution.
Known only from the
type
locality.