Bidentogon expansus, Shelley, 2003

Shelley, Rowland M., 2003, A new polydesmid milliped genus and two new species from Oregon and Washington, U. S. A., with a review of Bidentogon Buckett and Gardner, 1968, and a summary of the family in Western North America (Polydesmida: Polydesmidae), Zootaxa 296 (1), pp. 1-12 : 11

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.296.1.1
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5014417
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03A3096E-3A1F-FFF8-F462-FC664F22C744
treatment provided by	Felipe (2021-06-22 17:23:38, last updated 2024-11-27 13:37:29)
scientific name	Bidentogon expansus
status	sp. nov.

Treatment

Bidentogon expansus View in CoL , new species

Bidentogon californicus: Shear, 1972:490–492 View in CoL , figs. 4–5. Hoffman, 1999:438. Shelley, 2002: 108.

Type specimens. Male holotype and one male and two female paratypes ( MCZ) collected by M. G. Childs in January 1914 in Sacramento , Sacramento County, California .

Diagnosis Tibiotarsus expanding distad, apically broad and spatulate ( Shear 1972, figs. 45).

Ecology. The types were collected from debris in a hollow apple tree.

Distribution. Known only from the type locality.

References

Hoffman, R. L. (1999) Checklist of the Millipeds of North and Middle America. Virginia Mu s eum of Natural History Special Publication No. 8, 1 - 584.

Shear, W. A. (1972) The milliped genus Bidentogon (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Trichopolydesmidae). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 85, 489 - 492.

Shelley, R. M. (2002) Annotated checklist of the millipeds of California (Arthropoda: Diplopoda). Monographs of the Western North American Naturalist, 1, 90 - 115.