Trichopetalidae Verhoeff 1914
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Family Trichopetalidae Verhoeff, 1914
Trichopetalinae Verhoeff, 1914:347.
Trichopetalidae Verhoeff, 1932:485. Hoffman, 1961:262; 1999:233 (list). Shear, 1972:274.
Type genus: Trichopetalum Harger 1872.
Included genera: Trichopetalum Harger 1872, Scoterpes Cope 1872, Trigenotyla Causey 1951, Mexiterpes Causey 1963, Causeyella n. gen., Nannopetalum n. gen. Diagnosis: A family of Cleidogonoidea distinct in the modification of the ninth legs of malesreduction of the telopodite to a single fused article; great development of the segmental setae; and in the (usual) presence of a strong fimbriate branch on the anterior gonopod.
Distribution: North America, from Newfoundland west to Wisconsin and south to Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas and Oklahoma (not present on the coastal plain from Virginia to Georgia or the Gulf Coastal Plain), highlands of northeastern and central Mexico.
Discussion: Causey (1959) established a tribe Scoterpini (recte: Scoterpetini) to include the genera Scoterpes and Trigenotyla; this was missed by Hoffman in his monumental Checklist of the Millipeds of North and Middle America (1999), although Causey’s paper appears in his bibliography. Otherwise no division of the family into subordinate familylevel taxa has been made. Causey considered trichopetalids to be a subfamily of Conotylidae (see Introduction, above); had she recognized the family Trichopetalidae as raised to that status by Verhoeff in 1932, she undoubtedly would have considered her tribe to be a subfamily. However, before deciding the validity of any subfamilial or tribal grouping of the trichopetalids, I would prefer to complete my work on the large genera Trichopetalum and Scoterpes, to be published in a subsequent part.
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Published as part of Shear, William A., 2003, The milliped family Trichopetalidae, Part 1: Introduction and Genera Trigenotyla Causey, Nannopetalum n. gen., and Causeyella n. gen. (Diplopoda: Chordeumatida, Cleidogonoidea), pp. 1-36 in Zootaxa 321 on pages 12-13, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.157036Files
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- Trichopetalidae
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- Animalia
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- Chordeumatida
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
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- Verhoeff
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- family
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- Trichopetalidae Verhoeff, 1914 sec. Shear, 2003
References
- Verhoeff, K. W. (1914) Ascospermophoren aus Japan. Zoologischer Anzeiger, 43, 125 - 143.
- Verhoeff, K. W. (1932) Diplopoden-Beitrage. (124. Diplopoden-Aufsatz.) Zoologische Jahrbucher, Abteilung fur Sytematik, 62, 459 - 524.
- Hoffman, R. L. (1961) Systematic and morphological notes on North American conotylid Diplopoda. Transactions of the American Entomological Society, 87, 259 - 272.
- Shear, W. A. (1972) Studies in the milliped Order Chordeumida (Diplopoda): a revision of the Family Cleidogonidae and a reclassification of the Order Chordeumida in the New World. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, 144, 151 - 352.
- Harger, O. (1872) Descriptions of new North American myriapods. American Journal of Sciences and Arts, 4, 117 - 121.
- Cope, E. D. (1872) On the Wyandotte Cave and its fauna. American Naturalist, 6, 406 - 422.
- Causey, Nell B. (1963) Mexiterpes sabinus, new genus and new species, a Mexican troglobite (Diplopoda: Trichopetalidae). Psyche, 70, 235 - 239.
- Causey, N. B. (1959) A second species of the milliped genus Trigenotyla (Chordeumidea: Conotylidae: Trichopetalinae: Scoterpini). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 72, 75 - 78.