Arthrorhabdus pygmaeus, antennae, prefemoral spines, prefemoral spine
General description:
Species concept: Morphological Species Concept
Diagnosis: Antennae long, with 20-26 antennal articles. Cephalic plate and T1 entirely separate. T1 without an anterior transverse sulcus. Coxosternal tooth-plates elongated, with 4 large divergent teeth extending beyond the forcipular trochanteroprefemoral process. Tarsal spurs minute and on LL1-15 only. L21 with about 22 prefemoral spines.
See Shelley (2002: 46)[1] and Lewis (2010: 86)[2].
References
- , “A synopsis of the North American centipedes of the order Scolopendromorpha (Chilopoda)”, Virginia Museum of Natural History Memoir, vol. 5, pp. 1-108, 2002.
- , “A key and annotated list of the Scolopendra species of the Old World with a reappraisal of Arthrorhabdus (Chilopoda: Scolopendromorpha: Scolopendridae)”, International Journal of Myriapodology, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 83-122, 2010.