The centipede family Anopsobiidae new to North America, with the description of a new genus and species and notes on the Henicopidae of North America and the Anopsobiidae of the Northern Hemisphere (Chilopoda, Lithobiomorpha)
Author
Shear, William A.
text
Zootaxa
2018
4422
2
259
283
journal article
29146
10.11646/zootaxa.4422.2.6
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1175-5326
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Buethobius oabitus
Chamberlin, 1911
Buethobius oabitus
Chamberlin 1911a
: 34
;
Mercurio 2010
: 44
(complete references)
From
two places in
Mississippi
. To my knowledge, this species has never been collected again; the
Chamberlin
collection in
USNM
includes no specimens aside from the
holotype
. This is unfortunate since
B. oabitus
is the
type
species of the genus. Yellow trunk, head orange; body
10
–
12 mm
long. Antennae more than half the body length, 36 articles, coxosternal teeth 3+3, coxal pores 3, 3, 3, 3 or 4, 4, 4, 4 (
Chamberlin, 1912
). The length of the antennae relative to the body length is not a particularly reliable character, since the trunk of a lithobiomorph can telescope or extend to a substantial degree.