Revision of the genus Scleropauropus Silvestri, 1902 (Myriapoda: Pauropoda: Pauropodidae)
Author
Scheller, Ulf
text
Zootaxa
2007
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journal article
10.5281/zenodo.178453
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178453
Allopauropus
(
D.
)
mameti
(
Remy, 1959
)
,
n. comb
Scleropauropus
(
Scleropauropoides
)
mameti
Remy 1959
.
The
Mauritius
Institute Bulletin
, 5(5), 184–185, fig. 13.
Owing to coarse tergites with lanceolate setae Remy placed this species in
Scleropauropus
though he apparently realized that it deviated from other species in the genus in having the setae combination
b
1+
b
2 on the pygidial sternum, and no
b
3. This is a character typical of the subgenus
Decapauropus
in
Allopauropus
.
The club-shaped bothriotricha
T
3 is also pointing to that taxon.
Distribution.
Sri Lanka
,
Mauritius
.