J. Pages, JAPYGIDAE (DIPLURA) FROM SOUTH-EAST ASIA N-DEGREES-7 - MALAYSIA (SARAWAK), INDONESIA (JAVA, SUMATRA) AND SRI-LANKA - DISCELLURATA-GENAVENSIA XX, Revue Suisse de Zoologie, 102(2), 1995, pp. 277-305
This note is divided into 4 parts. 1) Topotypical specimens of Indjapy
x kraepelini Silv. have been collected at Cibodas in Java. This enable
the author to complete and amend SILVESTRI'S diagnosis (1930) and to
describe the peculiar characteristics of the st.IIIA. - 2) Three new s
pecies are described from Sarawak and distributed between two new gene
ra: a) Pauperojapyx n. gen. with two n. sp. for which two subgenera ar
e created: Pauperojapyx s. str. n. subgen., type-species P. (P.) iban
n. sp. and Paucijapyx n. subgen., type-species P. (P.) kajan n. sp.; b
) the second n. gen., Hutanjapyx is monospecific, H. simpan n. gen., n
. sp. - 3) The following new combination is proposed and discussed: In
djapyx sumatranus (Silv.) n. comb. = Japyx sumatranus Silvestri, 1916.
- 4) A new specimen of Deutojapyx greeni (Silv.), endemic species of
Sri Lanka, is recorded.