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Issue: Vol. 4486 No. 4: 1 Oct. 2018
Type: Article
Published: 2018-09-30
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4486.4.9
Page range: 559–574
Abstract views: 119
PDF downloaded: 6

A contribution to the knowledge of scolopendromorph centipedes of Martinique Island, with descriptions of two new species (Chilopoda: Scolopendromorpha)

Zoological Museum of the Moscow Lomonosov State University, Bolshaya Nikitskaja Str. 6, Moscow, 103009, Russia.
EI—Entomologie & Myriapodologie, 5 rue de la Forge, 44660 Rougé, France.
CIRAD, Persyst—UPR GECO, Campus agro-environnemental Caraïbe, 97285 Le Lamentin, Martinique
Myriapoda Lesser Antilles Martinique Otostigmus (Parotostigmus) Cryptops (Trigonocryptops) new species taxonomy list of species

Abstract

The paper provides new data on seven scolopendromorph centipede species collected in Martinique Island. Two new species are described: Otostigmus (Parotostigmus) salticus n. sp. and Cryptops (Trigonocryptops) martinicensis n. sp.; their systematic position is discussed. Notes on the system of subgenus Trigonocryptops Verhoeff, 1906 are given and Cryptops sarasini var. furcata Ribaut, 1923 is confirmed as subspecies. Cormocephalus guildingii Newport, 1845, Newportia longitarsis guadeloupensis Demange, 1981 and N. pusilla Pocock, 1893 are reported from Martinique for the first time. A list of the Scolopendromorpha of this island is given.

 

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