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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Scleropauropus simplex
Remy, 1954
Scleropauropus
(
Scleropauropus
)
simplex
Remy 1954
.
Annales du Musée royal du
Congo Belge
. Bruxelles, Tervuren, C- Zoologie
, 1, 255–256, fig. 5.
Distribution.
Known so far only from the
Ivory Coast
.
Some species listed above under
Scleropauropus
were originally placed in this genus (sensu stricto) because of incomplete knowledge or because of characters whose taxonomic value we do not know at present. At least some of them will probably be moved to other genera in the future. So e.g. have
S. florentini
,
S. grassei
,
S. peniculifer
and
S. segrex
6 + 2 setae on the 6th tergite, a character not known in any other species treated here,
S. segrex
also 10 setae on 1st tegite. Other species not well fitting into
Scleropauropus
in the sense of Silvestri are
S. caesariatus
and
S. tarumamirimi
with both indistinct sclerotization of the tergites and scarcely lanceolate tergal setae.
S. simplex
too is weakly sclerotized and has a sternal antennal branch very alike that in
Pauropus
.