Trichopetalidae Verhoeff 1914 ...

• Main Author: Shear, William A.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2003
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Diplopoda; Chordeumatida; Trichopetalidae; Newfoundland
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6273574; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.6273574

Family Trichopetalidae Verhoeff, 1914 Trichopetalinae Verhoeff, 1914:347. Trichopetalidae Verhoeff, 1932:485. Hoffman, 1961:262; 1999:233 (list). Shear, 1972:274. Type genus: Trichopetalum Harger 1872. Included genera: Trichopetalum Harger 1872, Scoterpes Cope 1872, Trigenotyla Causey 1951, Mexiterpes Causey 1963, Causeyella n. gen., Nannopetalum n. gen. Diagnosis: A family of Cleidogonoidea distinct in the modification of the ninth legs of males­­reduction of the telopodite to a single fused article; great development of the segmental setae; and in the (usual) presence of a strong fimbriate branch on the anterior gonopod. Distribution: North America, from Newfoundland west to Wisconsin and south to Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas and Oklahoma (not present on the coastal plain from Virginia to Georgia or the Gulf Coastal Plain), highlands of northeastern and central Mexico. Discussion: Causey (1959) established a tribe Scoterpini (recte: Scoterpetini) to include the genera Scoterpes and Trigenotyla; ... : Published as part of Shear, William A., 2003, The milliped family Trichopetalidae, Part 1: Introduction and Genera Trigenotyla Causey, Nannopetalum n. gen., and Causeyella n. gen. (Diplopoda: Chordeumatida, Cleidogonoidea), pp. 1-36 in Zootaxa 321 on pages 12-13, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.157036 ...