A review of the Chinese species of Bothropolys Wood, 1862 (Chilopoda: Lithobiomorpha: Lithobiidae)
Author
Ma, Hui-Qin
Author
Song, Da-Xiang
Author
Zhu, Ming-Sheng
text
Zootaxa
2008
1786
35
47
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.182487
59c5ee28-eb1d-44d9-a141-6e59134b7a67
1175-5326
182487
Bothropolys imaharensis
Verhoeff, 1937
Verhoeff, 1937
: 186;
Takakuwa, 1939
: 103;
Takakuwa, 1940
: 36;
Wang & Mauris, 1996
: 91;
Zapparoli, 2006
.
Diagnosis:
Body length 13.7–20.0 mm, antennae composed of 20+20–21+21 antennomeres; 17–21, usually 20 ocelli arranged in 4 rows on each side; Tömösváry’s organ rounded, small, moderately lager than the adjoining ocelli; 7+7–10+10 blunt teeth, usually 9+9 or 10+10; porodonts thick and strong, posterior to lateral tooth; posterior angles of TT 6 and 7 feebly triangular, posterior angles of TT 9, 11 and 13 sharply triangular; pretarsus of all legs with claws; moderately long accessory claws on legs 1–15; coxal pores round or ovate, 12–34 irregularly arranged coxal pores; female gonopods with 2+2 bullet-shaped spurs and tridentate claws; male gonopods short and thick, as half-ball protuberance, with 3–4 long setae, distally slightly sclerotised.
Material examined
: 1 Ψ, Suifenhe City, Heilongjiang,
44°24'N
131°12'E
,
15 June 2003
, leg. Feng Zhang. 1 Ψ, 1 ɗ, Xiaobaishan, Fuping County, Baoding City, Hebei Province,
38°51'12.0"N
114°12'14.2"E
,
2 October 2005
, leg. Hui-qin Ma. 3 ΨΨ, 2 ɗɗ, Kongdongdao Town, Yantai City, Shandong Province,
37°30'N
121°30'E
,
6 June 2005
, leg. Hui-qin Ma.
Distribution:
China
(Hebei, Heilongjiang, Shandong,
Taiwan
),
Korea
.
Remarks:
Verhoeff (1937)
described
B. imaharensis
from Tokyo in
Japan
,
Takakuwa (1939
,
1940
) presented a number of records of the species from
Taiwan
and
Korea
, and supplemented Verhoeff’s rather scanty original description.