Geophilus bosniensis

Geophilus bosniensis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Myriapoda
Class: Chilopoda
Order: Geophilomorpha
Family: Geophilidae
Genus: Geophilus
Species:
G. bosniensis
Binomial name
Geophilus bosniensis
Verhoeff, 1895

Geophilus bosniensis is a species of soil centipede in the family Geophilidae endemic to Bosnia and Herzegovina.[1] It grows up to 30 millimeters and has 75 leg pairs, as well as sternites unseparated in the median but with a suture line,[2] and sternal pore areas in the trunk segments only.[3] Overall, the identity and phyletic position of this centipede are uncertain.[4][5]

Geophilus strictus Latzel, 1880 is similar to G. bosniensis, but differs in that it has fewer hairs, a longer cephalic plate, a lack of anal leg claws, and pleural glands which "open in a pit covered by the last ventral shield". G. hirsutus Porat, 1871 (now Necrophloeophagus punctiventris Newport, 1844)[6] corresponds to G. bosniensis in the strong bristles, but differs slightly from it in the very long cephalic plate, the final, narrow anal plate, and the large number (about 50) of pleural glands.[2]

References

  1. ^ László, Dányi; Korsos, Zoltán; Lazanyi, Eszter (2019). 18th International Congress of Myriapodology. Program and Abstracts (PDF). Budapest: Hungarian Natural History Museum & Hungarian Biological Society. p. 152. ISBN 978-963-9877-38-2. Retrieved 29 March 2022.
  2. ^ a b Verhoeff, Karl W. (1895). "Beiträge zur Kenntnis paläarktischen Myriopoden. (II. Aufsatz: Über metteleuropäischen Geophiliden)" (PDF). Archiv für Naturgeschichte (in German). 61: 346–356. Retrieved 29 March 2022.
  3. ^ Minelli, Alessandro (1995). "The sternal pore areas of geophilomorph centipedes (Chilopoda: Geophilomorpha)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 115 (2): 185–209. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1995.tb02327.x. Retrieved 29 March 2022.
  4. ^ Minelli, Alessandro; Bonato, Lucio (2009). "Geophilomorph centipedes in the Mediterranean region: revisiting taxonomy opens new evolutionary vistas" (PDF). Soil Organisms. 81 (3): 489–503. Retrieved 29 March 2022.
  5. ^ Minelli, Alessandro (2014). "Supplementary material 1". ChiloKey, an Interactive Identification Tool for the Geophilomorph Centipedes of Europe (Chilopoda, Geophilomorpha). Retrieved 29 March 2022.
  6. ^ "Opinion 2452 (Case 3680) – Geophilus bonensis Meinert, 1870 (Chilopoda): specific name not conserved". The Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature. 77 (1): 59–60. 2020. doi:10.21805/bzn.v77.a018. S2CID 229723508. Retrieved 31 March 2022.


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