JAPYGIDAE (DIPLURA) FROM SOUTH-EAST ASIA N-DEGREES-7 - MALAYSIA (SARAWAK), INDONESIA (JAVA, SUMATRA) AND SRI-LANKA - DISCELLURATA-GENAVENSIA XX

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Citation
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
Citations number
17
Categorie Soggetti
Zoology
Journal title
ISSN journal
0035418X
Volume
102
Issue
2
Year of publication
1995
Pages
277 - 305
Database
ISI
SICI code
0035-418X(1995)102:2<277:J(FSAN>2.0.ZU;2-#
Abstract
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.