Carlotretus
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Ordo: Polydesmida
Familia: Opisotretidae
Name
Carlotretus Hoffman, 1980 – Wikispecies link – Pensoft Profile
- Carlotretus Hoffman, 1980: 176, 188.
- Carlotretus – Hoffman 1982: 722.
Diagnosis
A genus of Opisotretidae with 19 (♂) or 20 (♀) body segments. ♂ head without modifications. Metaterga with two regular, transverse rows of bacilliform setae. Frontolateral margin of midbody paraterga devoid of evident shoulders. Ozopore lying close to caudal margin of paratergite’s caudolateral corner.
Gonopod telopodite rather stout, unipartite, at best slightly hollow on caudal face; distal part devoid of ornamentations (spines or setae), being a long and simple solenomere (sl) supplied with lobes or processes either subtending it or lying at its base. Neither an accessory seminal chamber nor a hairy pulvillus (Figs 1B, C, 38B–E, 40D–H, 41).
Type species
Opisotretus setosus Carl, 1922, by original designation of Hoffman (1980)[1].
Remarks
In addition to the type species, this genus includes a new congener described below. The differences are depicted in Fig. 1 and Figs 38, 40, 41, being also mentioned in the diagnosis of Carlotretus triramus sp. n.
Taxon Treatment
- Golovatch, S; Geoffroy, J; Stoev, P; Spiegel, D; 2013: Review of the millipede family Opisotretidae (Diplopoda, Polydesmida), with descriptions of new species ZooKeys, 302: 13-77. doi
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Other References
- ↑ Hoffman R (1980) Classification of the Diplopoda. Muséum d’histoire naturelle, Genève. 237 pp. [for 1979].
- ↑ Carl J (1922) Wissenschafliche Ergebnisse einer Forschungsreise nach Ostindien, ausgeführt im Auftrage der Akademie der Wissenschaften von H. v. Buttel-Reepen. VIII. Diplopoden aus Sumatra, Java, Malakka und Ceylon. Gesammelt von Herrn Prof. Dr. V. Buttel-Reepen in den Jahren 1911–1912. Zoologische Jahrbücher, Abteilung für Systematik 44: 565–578.