Bicoxidens
Creators: name: Mwabvu, Tarombera
name: Hamer, Michelle L.
name: Slotow, Robert H.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2007
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Diplopoda
Spirostreptida
Spirostreptidae
Bicoxidens

description: Key to the species of Bicoxidens
1. Apical region of telocoxite with a flattened median process that overlaps the opposite one; median leaf with an apical median axe-shaped process; telopodite with a long femoral lobe (Figs. 2 a, 5a)...................2
- Apical region of telocoxite without a flattened median process; median leaf without apical axe-shaped process; telopodite with a short femoral lobe (Figs 1 a, 3a, 4a, 6a, 7a, 8a)...................................................3
2. Apical telocoxite with a horizontal lateral process; apically lateral leaf with a small, transverse, ear-shaped aboral projection (Fig. 5b) ................................................................................................................ grandis
- Apical telocoxite without lateral process; apical lateral leaf with a small rounded aboral lobe on distal margin (Fig. 2b) ............................................................................................................................. flavicollis
3. Apical telocoxite T-shaped, with three median processes and a long lateral process. Middle median process overlaps with the process from the opposite telocoxite (Figs. 3 a, 3b) ..................................... friendi
- Apical telocoxite not T-shaped, without three median or a long lateral process..........................................4
4. Apical telocoxite not oval. Aboral lateral leaf lobe basally rounded and not produced into a lateral extension................................................................................................................................................................5
- Apical telocoxite oval. Aboral lateral leaf lobe basally not rounded and produced into a lateral extension (Fig. 8 a)....................................................................................................................................... nyathi sp. n
5. Apical telocoxite with two broadly rounded median processes that may be in touch................................6
- Apical telocoxite with three narrowly rounded or overlapping median processes.......................................7
6. Apical telocoxite with an overhanging folded lateral process above and not extending beyond knee bend; median processes do not touch; median leaf constricted subapically but without a basal lateral lobe (Figs. 4 a, 4b) ................................................................................................................................ gokwensis sp. n.
- Apical telocoxite with a broadly rounded lateral process above and extending beyond knee bend; median processes reciprocally in touch, leaving a window between them; sub-apically (below setose area), median leaf constricted and with a basal lateral lobe (Fig. 6 a) ........................................ matopoensis sp. n
7. Apical telocoxite bird head-shaped with three median processes, the middle long, beak-like and overlapping the opposite one (Figs. 1 a, 1b)................................................................................................... brincki
- Apical telocoxite not bird head-shaped, with two median processes that do not overlap. (Fig. 7 a) ............. .................................................................................................................................................... nigerrimus
description: Published as part of Mwabvu, Tarombera, Hamer, Michelle L. & Slotow, Robert H., 2007, A taxonomic review of the southern African millipede genus, Bicoxidens Attems, 1928 (Diplopoda: Spirostreptida: Spirostreptidae), with the description of three new species and a tentative phylogeny, pp. 1-23 in Zootaxa 1452 on pages 17-18, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.176282