Decapauropus
Creators: name: Qian, Changyuan
name: Dong, Yan
name: Guo, Hua
name: Chu, Kelin
name: Sun, Hongying
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2013
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Pauropoda
Tetramerocerata
Pauropodidae
Decapauropus

description: Key to species of Decapauropus found in eastern China
(including Jiangsu, Anhui and Zhejiang province)
1. Head cuticle granulate.................................................................................. 2
- Head cuticle glabrous.................................................................................. 3
2. Antennal 4th segment with 4 setae.................................................... infurcatus Hagino Y., 1991
- Antennal 4th segment with 5 setae............................................. disphaeroides Shen and Song, 2007
3. Antennal 4th segment with 5 setae......................................................................... 4
- Antennal 4th segment with 4 setae......................................................................... 5
4. st glabrous....................................................................... leptotarsus Scheller, 2004
- st with pubescence or striate..................................................... apicalis Gai and Scheller, 2007
5. st glabrous........................................................................................... 6
- st with pubescence or striate............................................................................. 7
6. Anal plate with one pair of appendages.................................................................... 8
- Anal plate with two pairs of appendages................................................................... 9
7. Anal plate with appendages............................................................................. 10
- Anal plate without appendages.............................................. pilosisphaerus Zhang and Chen, 1988
8. Anal plate lateral margin with an incision.................................................................. 11
- Anal plate lateral margin round..................................................... bidrepanoides Qian sp. nov.
9. Anal plate subrectangle.................................................................. ribauti Remy, 1937
- Anal plate linguiform............................................................... mahcicus Scheller, 1982
10. Appendages of anal plate with pubescence or striate......................................................... 12
- Appendages of anal plate glabrous........................................... ovalapendicis Zhang and Chen, 1988
11. Anal plate with V–shaped posterior incision................................. bifurcodicoccus Qian and Dong sp. nov.
- Anal plate with U–shaped posterior incision................................. duomamillatus Qian and Dong sp. nov.
12. Anal plate with pubescence.................................................... crassescens Shen and Song, 2007
- Anal plate glabrous................................................................................... 13
13. Anal plate linguiform............................................................. suppeditatus Scheller, 2005
- Anal plate subcircular............................................................... phakoides Scheller, 2005
description: Published as part of Qian, Changyuan, Dong, Yan, Guo, Hua, Chu, Kelin & Sun, Hongying, 2013, Pauropods (Myriapoda: Pauropoda) from eastern China, descriptions of three new species and revision of Pauropus bifurcus Zhang & Chen, 1988, pp. 116-126 in Zootaxa 3608 (2) on page 125, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3608.2.2, http://zenodo.org/record/222673