Alluropus Silvestri, 1912

Le, Son Xuan, Do, Thinh Tat, Tran, Binh T. T. & Nguyen, Anh D., 2025, The centipede genera Alluropus Silvestri, 1911 and Rhysida Wood, 1862 (Scolopendromorpha, Scolopendridae) in Vietnam, with a description of a new species, Zoosystematics and Evolution 101 (4), pp. 1873-1885 : 1873-1885

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https://doi.org/10.3897/zse.101.156915

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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17185554

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scientific name

Alluropus Silvestri, 1912
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Genus Alluropus Silvestri, 1912 View in CoL

Type species.

Alluropus demangei Silvestri, 1911 , by monotypy.

Diagnosis.

According to Schileyko et al. (2020: p. 50), the genus can be recognized by the following characters: median tooth of labrum well developed; forcipular tooth-plates present; trochantero-prefemur with well-developed process; tergites never with longitudinal keels; sternites with incomplete paramedian sutures (in some species much shortened, sometimes also with median and lateral depressions of various sizes / shapes; LBS 7 with spiracles; legs with tarsal spur (s), legs 1 with prefemoral spur; coxopleural process ranging from short to very long and much enlarged with spines (at least with apical ones); prefemur of the ultimate leg with spines; ultimate pretarsus well-developed, with accessory spines.

Distribution.

Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, and Thailand.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Chilopoda

Order

Scolopendromorpha

Family

Scolopendridae

SubFamily

Otostigminae