Sundageophilus, Bonato, Lucio, Klarner, Bernhard, Widyastuti, Rahayu & Scheu, Stefan, 2016

Bonato, Lucio, Klarner, Bernhard, Widyastuti, Rahayu & Scheu, Stefan, 2016, The first geophilid centipedes from Malesia: a new genus with two new species from Sumatra (Chilopoda, Geophilidae), ZooKeys 605, pp. 53-71 : 55

Taxon classification Animalia Geophilomorpha Geophilidae

Sundageophilus gen. n.

Diagnosis.

Relatively small geophilids, less than 1 cm long; cephalic plate distinctly elongate, without frontal line; clypeus with two pairs of setae on the anterior medial part, without a distinct clypeal area; intermediate part of labrum bearing stout tubercles, lateral parts far apart from each other and bearing bristles; first maxillae without lappets; second maxillary coxosternite with anterior margin entire and concave, without anterior projections, neither statuminia nor other distinctly sclerotized parts associated with the metameric pores; second maxillary pretarsus in shape of an elongate claw, more than 3.5 times as long as wide at the basis, sub-conic and slightly bent, with a small sub-basal dorsal bulge; forcipular tergite subtrapezoidal; forcipular coxosternite relatively elongate, the exposed part as wide as or only slightly wider than long, the anterior margin slightly projecting anteriorly, with two very short denticles and a narrow notch inbetween; coxopleural sutures complete, entirely ventral, straight and subparallel for most of their length; chitin-lines absent or hardly distinct; forcipules relatively elongate, the trochanteroprefemur is more than 1.4 times as long as wide, the tarsungulum more than 2.5 times as long as wide; forcipular intermediate articles distinct, without denticles; tarsungulum with at least a distinct basal denticle; trunk metasternites longer than wide, without obvious “carpophagus” pit; whenever present, a single sub-circular, posterior pore-field on all metasternites of the trunk; leg claws with at most a pair of accessory spines, shorter than mid-length of the pretarsus, similar to each other in length; ultimate leg-bearing segment with an entire pleuropretergite, without sulci; ultimate metasternite sub-trapezoid, the setae distributed almost uniformly in the female, unknown in the male; coxopleuron with at least two coxal organs, opening through independent pores on the ventral side; telopodite of the ultimate leg pair approximately 1.8-2.0 times as long as that of the penultimate pair; anal pores distinct.

Etymology.

From “Sunda”, the name in use for the south-eastern part of the continental shelf of Asia, including Sumatra and other islands, and " Geophilus ", which is used in many other names of genera of geophilids.

Type species.

Sundageophilus bidentatus sp. n.