Bothropolys imaharensis Verhoeff, 1937

Ma, Hui-Qin, Song, Da-Xiang & Zhu, Ming-Sheng, 2008, A review of the Chinese species of Bothropolys Wood, 1862 (Chilopoda: Lithobiomorpha: Lithobiidae), Zootaxa 1786, pp. 35-47 : 39-40

Bothropolys imaharensis Verhoeff, 1937

Verhoeff, 1937: 186; Takakuwa, 1939: 103; Takakuwa, 1940: 36; Wang & Mauris, 1996: 91; Zapparoli, 2006.

Diagnosis: Body length 13.7–20.0 mm, antennae composed of 20+20–21+21 antennomeres; 17–21, usually 20 ocelli arranged in 4 rows on each side; Tömösváry’s organ rounded, small, moderately lager than the adjoining ocelli; 7+7–10+10 blunt teeth, usually 9+9 or 10+10; porodonts thick and strong, posterior to lateral tooth; posterior angles of TT 6 and 7 feebly triangular, posterior angles of TT 9, 11 and 13 sharply triangular; pretarsus of all legs with claws; moderately long accessory claws on legs 1–15; coxal pores round or ovate, 12–34 irregularly arranged coxal pores; female gonopods with 2+2 bullet-shaped spurs and tridentate claws; male gonopods short and thick, as half-ball protuberance, with 3–4 long setae, distally slightly sclerotised.

Material examined: 1 Ψ, Suifenhe City, Heilongjiang, 44°24'N 131°12'E, 15 June 2003, leg. Feng Zhang. 1 Ψ, 1 ɗ, Xiaobaishan, Fuping County, Baoding City, Hebei Province, 38°51'12.0"N 114°12'14.2"E, 2 October 2005, leg. Hui-qin Ma. 3 ΨΨ, 2 ɗɗ, Kongdongdao Town, Yantai City, Shandong Province, 37°30'N 121°30'E, 6 June 2005, leg. Hui-qin Ma.

Distribution: China (Hebei, Heilongjiang, Shandong, Taiwan), Korea.

Remarks: Verhoeff (1937) described B. imaharensis from Tokyo in Japan, Takakuwa (1939, 1940) presented a number of records of the species from Taiwan and Korea, and supplemented Verhoeff’s rather scanty original description.