Aspidopleres
Aspidopleres species
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Aspidopleres

Porat, 1893
Species:
A. intercalatus
Binomial name
Aspidopleres intercalatus
(Porat, 1893)

Aspidopleres is an African genus of centipedes belonging to the family Oryidae.[1][2] Centipedes in this genus range from 11 cm to 12 cm in length, have 87 to 105 pairs of legs, and are found in southwest Africa.[3]

Species

Only one accepted species has been described within this genus:

  • Aspidopleres intercalatus (Porat, 1893)[3][4]

References

  1. ↑ "Index zoologicus. An alphabetical list of names of genera and subgenera proposed for use in zoology as recorded in the "Zoological record" 1880-1900, together with other names not included in the "Nomenclator zoologicus" of S.H. Scudder". 1902.
  2. ↑ Index zoologicus. An alphabetical list of names of genera and subgenera proposed for use in zoology as recorded in the "Zoological record" 1880-1900
  3. 1 2 Bonato, Lucio; Edgecombe, Gregory D.; Zapparoli, Marzio (2011). "Chilopoda – Taxonomic overview". In Minelli, Alessandro (ed.). The Myriapoda. Volume 1. Leiden: Brill. pp. 363–443 [436]. ISBN 978-90-04-18826-6. OCLC 812207443.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)
  4. ↑ Bonato L., Chagas Junior A., Edgecombe G.D., Lewis J.G.E., Minelli A., Pereira L.A., Shelley R.M., Stoev P., Zapparoli M. (2016). "ChiloBase 2.0". A World Catalogue of Centipedes (Chilopoda). Rosario Dioguardi and Giuseppe Cortese, University of Padua. Retrieved 4 March 2023.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)


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