Buethobius oabitus Chamberlin, 1911

Shear, William A., 2018, The centipede family Anopsobiidae new to North America, with the description of a new genus and species and notes on the Henicopidae of North America and the Anopsobiidae of the Northern Hemisphere (Chilopoda, Lithobiomorpha), Zootaxa 4422 (2), pp. 259-283 : 269

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4422.2.6
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:F6658C2B-9681-430A-8975-7B3AE2C233EE
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5969821
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scientific name	Buethobius oabitus Chamberlin, 1911
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Buethobius oabitus Chamberlin, 1911 View in CoL

Buethobius oabitus Chamberlin 1911a: 34 View in CoL ; Mercurio 2010: 44 (complete references)

From two places in Mississippi. To my knowledge, this species has never been collected again; the Chamberlin collection in USNM includes no specimens aside from the holotype. This is unfortunate since B. oabitus View in CoL is the type species of the genus. Yellow trunk, head orange; body 10 – 12 mm long. Antennae more than half the body length, 36 articles, coxosternal teeth 3+3, coxal pores 3, 3, 3, 3 or 4, 4, 4, 4 ( Chamberlin, 1912). The length of the antennae relative to the body length is not a particularly reliable character, since the trunk of a lithobiomorph can telescope or extend to a substantial degree.