Otostigmus (O.) multidens Haase 1887

• Main Authors: Schileyko, Arkady A., Stoev, Pavel E.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Chilopoda; Scolopendromorpha; Scolopendridae; Otostigmus; Otostigmus multidens; Triton; Triton Bay
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/6077637; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6077637

4. Otostigmus (O.) multidens Haase, 1887 Figs 13 –17 Otostigmus (O.) loriae: Attems, 1930: 140; Otostigmus (O.) multidens: Attems, 1930: 141; Otostigmus (O.) loriae: Schileyko, 1995: 81; Otostigmus (O.) loriae loriae: Schileyko, 2007: 79; Otostigmus (O.) multidens: Lewis, 2014: 399. Material. E Indonesia, West Papua Province, S Bird’s Neck, 05 – 09.09.2010: 1 ad [spm 1, largest, No. 7508], Kaimana 7–9 km NW, 3°35’02”S, 133°42’58”E, 25–200 m, primeval lowland rainforest on limestone, leg. DT; 1 ad [spm 2, No. 7509] + 2 ad [spm 3, СDT; spm 4 (larger one), No. 7510], Kaimana 47 km E, Triton bay, Kamaka (former Warika) village env., lake Kamakawalar and surroundings, 03°46’22”S, 134°12’02”E, 60–310 m, primeval lowland rainforest on limestone, leg. DT; 1 ad [spm 5, No. 7511], Kaimana 47 km E, Triton bay, Kamaka (former Warika) village env., lake Kamakawalar, 03°45’33”S, 134°12’05”E, 90 m, primeval lowland rainforest on limestone, leg. M. Kalninsh. Range. Cambodia; Vietnam; The Philippines; West Malaysia (Pahang); Indonesia: Sumatra, Maluku Islands, West Papua; Papua New Guinea. Remarks. Our specimens correspond well to the comprehensive description and drawings of Lewis (2014: 400) and can be readily recognized by the specific shape of the multi-dentated forcipular tooth-plates (Figs 13, 14). They differ insignificantly in having 22 (vs 21) antennomeres, of which 2.3– 2.7 (vs 2.3) basal ones with few long setae, complete paramedian sutures at tergites 4–20 (vs 6–20) and 1 additional dorsal (subapical) spine of coxopleural process (Fig. 15). The New Guinean specimens are also considerably larger reaching a length of 68–69 mm (spm 1). It should also be noted that the studied specimens have tergites (11)13–20 with 9 well-recognizable keels (Fig. 16), latter being replaced in the Vietnamese and Malaysian exemplars by a single weakly developed medial keel. The degree of development of the tergal keels seems to vary quite widely in subgenus Parotostigmus (Schileyko, 2014: 177). As for Otostigmus s.str. Lewis (2007, 2010) ...