An overview of the extant genera and subgenera of the order Scolopendromorpha (Chilopoda): a new identification key and updated diagnoses
Author
Schileyko, Arkady A.
schileyko1965@gmail.com
Author
Vahtera, Varpu
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Author
Edgecombe, Gregory D.
0000-0002-9591-8011
schileyko1965@gmail.com
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Zootaxa
2020
2020-08-10
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Alipes
Imhoff, 1854
Figs 84–88
Type
species.
Alipes multicostis
Imhoff, 1854
(by monotypy).
Diagnosis.
Median tooth of labrum well developed. Forcipular tooth-plates present, trochantero-prefemur with well-developed process (
Fig. 86
). Tergites with some (usually five) longitudinal keels (
Fig. 87
); well-developed spinules (not tubercles, as noted
Edgecombe & Bonato 2011
) of various sizes arranged along the keels (“spinulated keels”, see above). Space between tergal keels spinulated (not granulated, as noted
Edgecombe & Bonato 2011
). Sternites lacking both paramedian sutures and longitudinal sulci, sometimes with some (in most species three) shallow depressions. LBS 7 lacking spiracles, the latter with an atrium. Legs with tarsal spur(s). Coxopleural process very short, apically rounded and spineless (
Fig. 88
). Ultimate legs considerably elongated, prefemur and femur normal, tibia and tarsi strongly flattened forming an oval leaf-shaped structure (
Fig. 85
), with stridulatory grates on opposite surfaces of tibia and tarsus 1; pretarsus rudimentary or totally reduced. Ultimate prefemur (
Fig. 88
) lacking both spines and corner spine; in
A. appendiculatus
Pocock, 1896
and
A. calcipes
Cook, 1897
prefemur with a median digitiform process attaching close to its base. This process is long in males (fig.
214 in
Attems 1930
) and rudimentary in females and is similar to that of
Parotostigmus
males.
Number of species.
7 (
Bonato
et al
. 2016
).
Sexual dimorphism.
Present in two species.
Remarks.
Treated as a genus by
Edgecombe & Bonato (2011: 402)
,
Vahtera
et al.
(2012a: 7
,
2012b: 235
,
2013: 581
),
Joshi & Edgecombe (2018: 1318)
. The most recent morphological accounts on
Alipes
are
Lewis (2001)
and
Iorio (2003)
.