Eudigraphis, Silvestri, 1948

Karasawa, Shigenori, Kawano, Keisuke, Fukaya, Shin-ichi & Tsurusaki, Nobuo, 2020, Upgrading of Three Subspecies of Eudigraphis takakuwai to the Species Rank (Diplopoda: Penicillata: Polyxenida: Polyxenidae), Species Diversity 25, pp. 89-102 : 93

Keys to Japanese species of Eudigraphis

1 Head black, body dorsally cream yellow with two rows of blackish brown stripes; body 3.0– 4.2 mm long; usually in- habits sea cliffs........................... E. nigricans

—Head pale brown or gray, body dorsally uniformly gray or cream yellow only laterally tinted with brown..........2

2 Body cream yellow; body 3.8–4.5 mm long; usually inhab- its forest floor or under bark of tree trunks in forest............................................ E. takakuwai

—Body gray when alive; body 2.5–3.0 mm long; usually in- habits under barks of tree trunks in suburban parks............................................ E. kinutensis

Remarks for “specimens examined”. Data are given by the following order: Locality (DEG latitude—longitude data if available), altitude of the locality when available, vegetation or tree species on which specimens were collected, number of specimens (spm, spms), date collected, collector (SF=Shin-ichi Fukaya, KK=Keisuke Kawano, NT=Nobuo Tsurusaki, SK=Shigenori Karasawa, TM=Takashi Mekata).