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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Hedinobius hummelii
Verhoeff, 1934
Hedinobius hummelii
Verhoeff, 1934
: 32
; Zapparoli &
Edgecombe 2011
: 375
.
Hedinobius hummelii
was described from a single female from “Fu-shu-shi,” in the Tien Shan of western
China
. There is a city Fushun in
Liaoning Province
, and “shi” is generally taken to mean “city.” This may be the
type
locality. Verhoeff compared
Hedinobius
to
Cermatobius
(as
Esastigmatobius
,
a junior synonym), and placed it in Zygethobiinae (now
Zygethobiini
) as did Zapparoli &
Edgecombe (2011)
. The genus
Hedinobius
seems to differ from
Dzhungaria
only in having coxal spines on both the 14th and 15th leg-pairs, as in
Ghilaroviella
.
Clearly the three Central Asian genera need re-evaluation based on examination of the
type
specimens. It seems arbitrary to place
Dzhungaria
in
Anopsobiidae
and
Hedinobius
in
Zygethobiini
.