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Anopsobius

Anopsobius

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1a. Spiracle present on first pedigerous segment.................................................................. .................................................................... macfaydeni Eason, 1993 [Falkland Islands]

1b. Spiracle lacking on first pedigerous segment................................................................ 2

2a. Leg 14 and 15 prefemur bearing a ventrodistal spur.................................................... 3

2b. Leg 14 and 15 prefemur lacking a ventrodistal spur ..................................................... 6

3a. Leg 15 trochanter lacking ventrodistal spur..................................................................... ...................................................................... productus Silvestri, 1899 [Chile: Temuco]

3a. Leg 15 trochanter with ventrodistal spur....................................................................... 4

4a. Coxal pores 2,2 on legs 14 and 15 of males.................................................................. 5

4b. Coxal pores 1,1 on legs 14 and 15 of males ................................................................... ....... patagonicus Silvestri, 1909 [Argentina: Santa Cruz; South Africa: Western Cape]

5a. Dental margin of maxillipede with up to 8+8 teeth; maxillipede pleurite collar with weak median suture; leg 15 basitarsus 6­7 times longer than maximal width ............... .......... neozelanicus Silvestri, 1909 [New Zealand, Auckland Islands, Chatham Island]

5b. Dental margin of maxillipede usually with 5+5 teeth (maximum 6+6); maxillipede pleurite collar with subtrapezoidal median sclerite; leg 15 basitarsus 3.5­4 times longer than maximal width ....................... wrighti n. sp. [Australia: New South Wales]

6a. Dental margin of maxillipede with 6+6 teeth and narrow, deep median notch; porodont between two outer teeth.............................. diversus Chamberlin, 1962 [Chile: Chiloé]

6b. Dental margin of maxillipede with 5+5 teeth and broadly V­shaped median notch; porodont distal to outer tooth ............................... actius Chamberlin, 1962 [Chile: Chiloé]

Edgecombe, Gregory D. (2003): A new species of the Gondwanan centipede Anopsobius (Chilopoda: Lithobiomorpha) from New South Wales, Australia. Zootaxa 204: 1-15, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.156359MagnoliaPress via PlaziNo known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.

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A new species of the Gondwanan centipede Anopsobius (Chilopoda: Lithobiomorpha) from New South Wales, Australia

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This dataset contains the digitized treatments in Plazi based on the original journal article Edgecombe, Gregory D. (2003): A new species of the Gondwanan centipede Anopsobius (Chilopoda: Lithobiomorpha) from New South Wales, Australia. Zootaxa 204: 1-15, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.156359

Abstract

Anopsobius wrighti n. sp., from the New England and Washpool­Gibraltar Range regions of northern New South Wales, is the first Australian species of the Gondwanan genus Anopsobius Silvestri, 1899 (Henicopidae: Anopsobiinae). Anopsobius is also known from Chile, Argentina, the Falkland Islands, South Africa, New Zealand, and the Chatham and Auckland Islands. The new species is closely related to the New Zealand species A. neozelanicus Silvestri, 1909.

Key words: Chilopoda, Lithobiomorpha, Henicopidae, Anopsobiinae, Anopsobius, Anopsobius wrighti, taxonomy

Edgecombe G D, plazi (2003). A new species of the Gondwanan centipede Anopsobius (Chilopoda: Lithobiomorpha) from New South Wales, Australia. Plazi.org taxonomic treatments database. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.156359 accessed via GBIF.org on 2026-06-18.

CC0Published 12/31/2003View dataset
GBIF Usage Key
119331590
Dataset Key
ab7bf8ea-f6bb-43a9-b819-90c2ed60fdec
Origin
source
Backbone Key
2230874
Taxon ID
03F60F4EFFE8FFA6FEFA3870FAFFF92F.taxon
Last Crawled
6/16/2026
Last Interpreted
6/16/2026