Lophoturus Explained

Lophoturus is a genus of millipedes belonging to the family Lophoproctidae.^[1] Species described after year 2000 include two from Queensland, Australia,^[2] three from Christmas Island, Australia,^[3] and three from the Caribbean and northern South America.^[4]

Species

There are approximately 27 species:^{[1] [2] [3]}

• Lophoturus adisi Ishii, Jacquemin-Nguyen Duy & Condé, 1999
• Lophoturus aequatus (Loomis, 1936)
• Lophoturus anisorhabdus (Condé & Terver, 1964)
• Lophoturus boondallus Huynh & Veenstra, 2018
• Lophoturus crassipes Conde & Terver, 1979
• Lophoturus danhomenou (Brölemann, 1926)
• Lophoturus difficilis (Condé & Jacquemin, 1963)
• Lophoturus drifti (Condé & Terver, 1964)
• Lophoturus fluctuans (Condé & Terver, 1964)
• Lophoturus guineensis (Silvestri, 1948)
• Lophoturus hesperius (Condè & Terver, 1963)
• Lophoturus humphreysi Nguyen Duy-Jacquemin 2014
• Lophoturus jianshuiensis Ishii & Yin, 2000
• Lophoturus judsoni Jacquemin-Nguyen Duy, 2002
• Lophoturus longisetis (Pocock, 1894)
• Lophoturus madecassus (Marquet & Condé, 1950)
• Lophoturus molloyensis Huynh & Veenstra, 2018
• Lophoturus monserratensis Jacquemin-Nguyen Duy, 2002
• Lophoturus niveus (Loomis, 1934)
• Lophoturus obscurus (Brölemann, 1931)
• Lophoturus okinawai (Nguyen Duy-Jacquemin & Condé, 1982)
• Lophoturus peruanus (Silvestri, 1949)
• Lophoturus quebradanus (Chamberlin, 1955)
• Lophoturus queenslandicus (Verhoeff, 1924)
• Lophoturus speophilus Nguyen Duy-Jacquemin 2014
• Lophoturus sturmi Jacquemin-Nguyen Duy, 2002
• Lophoturus vicarius Conde & Terver, 1979

External links

• Reproduction, egg morphology and development observed in two Australian penicillate millipedes, Lophoturus queenslandicus (Lophoproctidae) and Phryssonotus novaehollandiae (Synxenidae) (Diplopoda)

Notes and References

1. Web site: Lophoturus Brölemann, 1931 . MilliBase taxon details. 3 April 2018.
2. Two new Lophoturus species (Diplopoda, Polyxenida, Lophoproctidae) from Queensland, Australia . ZooKeys . 133–154 . 3 April 2018. 10.3897/zookeys.741.21814 . 29706774 . 2018 . Huynh . Cuong . Veenstra . Anneke A. . 741 . 5904426 . free .
3. Two new species of Lophoturus (Diplopoda, Penicillata, Lophoproctidae) from caves in Christmas Island, Australia, including the second troglomorph in Penicillata . Zoosystema . 36 . 29–39 . 10.5252/z2014n1a2 . 2014 . Nguyen Duy-Jacquemin . Monique . 84884342 .
4. Nguyen Duy-Jacquemin . Monique . 2002 . New species and distribution of the genera Lophoturus and Ancistroxenus (Myriapoda, Diplopoda, Penicillata) in the Caribbean and northern South America . Zoosystema . 24 . 2 . 451–470 .