Mjöberg's Centipede Arthrorhabdus mjobergi Kraepelin, 1916
Fauna Portal species: 5313
Diagnosis
(after Koch 1984): An average sized Arthrorhabdus, distinguishable from A. pygmaeus principally by presence of 17 (rather than 20-26) antennal segments, from A. formosus and A. paucispinus by sternite XXI not reaching (rather than considerably overlapping) posterior margin of porose area of anal-leg coxopleuron, and, like other species of genus, from A. spinifer by absence of pair of median sulci on tergite I.
Status
- native
Linnean Type
Type-locality: Kimberley Division, W. A. (L.E. Koch 1984)
Australia
- Northern Territory
- Queensland
- South Australia
- Western Australia
Fauna Portal Records
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Publications
(1984): Australian species of the centipede genus Arthrorhabdus Pocock (Chilopoda: Scolopendridae: Scolopendrinae). Journal of Natural History. 18: 363 - 368