Digitipes

Siriwut, Warut, Edgecombe, Gregory D., Sutcharit, Chirasak, Tongkerd, Piyoros & Panha, Somsak, 2015, First record of the African-Indian centipede genus Digitipes Attems, 1930 (Scolopendromorpha: Otostigminae) from Myanmar, and the systematic position of a new species based on molecular phylogenetics, Zootaxa 3931 (1), pp. 71-87 : 76

Key to species of Digitipes

1a. Tergite surface with rugose ridges, keels and tubercles.............................................. D. barnabasi

1b. Tergite surface lacking rugose ridges, keels and tubercles...................................................... 2

2a. 2.5–2.7 basal articles of antenna glabrous dorsally............................................................ 3

2b. At least 3 basal articles of antenna glabrous dorsally.......................................................... 4

3a. Dorsal spine absent on coxopleural process........................................................ D. chhotanii

3b. Dorsal spine present on coxopleural process............................................... D. kalewaensis n. sp.

4a. Longitudinal median sulcus on cephalic plate with posterior bifurcation................................... D. pruthii

4b. Longitudinal median sulcus on cephalic plate without posterior bifurcation........................................ 5

5a. Paramedian sutures nearly complete or complete on most sternites............................................... 6

5b. Paramedian sutures only on anterior part of sternites.......................................................... 8

6a. Tergite margination starting at least from T5................................................................ 7

6b. Only tergite of ultimate leg-bearing segment with margination......................................... D. reichardti

7a. All legs without femoral, tibial and tarsal spurs................................................... D. periyarensis

7b. At least leg 1 with femoral, tibial and tarsal spur................................................... D. verdascens

8a. Posterior part of cephalic plate with pair of short sulci................................................... D. jangii

8b. Posterior part of cephalic plate without pair of short sulci...................................................... 9

9a. All legs without tibial and tarsal spurs.............................................................. D. krausi

9a. At least 3 pairs of legs with tibial and tarsal spurs........................................................... 10

10a. Pore-field reaching to dorsal margin of coxopleuron.............................................. D. coonoorensis

10b. Pore-field terminating beneath dorsal margin of coxopleuron D. jonesii