Marble Bar Antichiropus Antichiropus apricus Car, 2019
Fauna Portal species: 11177
Antichiropus apricus male, lateral (WAM T144590; Marble Bar, Iron Clad Hotel, Western Australia)
Image: Car et al. (2019; fig. 6A)
Fauna Portal Image No. 9378Diagnosis
(after Car 2019): This species is recognised by its broad, squat, slightly bulbous femorite. Several other species have broad femorites but only one other species, A. verutus has a short, broad femorite. The latter has a distinctive, horizontally orientated main femoral process (MFP) which A. apricus does not.
Status
- native
Linnean Holotype
Australia
- Western Australia
Publications
(2019): The millipede genus Antichiropus (Diplopoda: Polydesmida: Paradoxosomatidae), part 3: species of the Pilbara bioregion of Western Australia. Zootaxa. 4617: 1 - 71