On some surface structures of potential taxonomic importance in families of the suborders Polydesmidea and Dalodesmidea (Polydesmida, Diplopoda)

ZooKeys

Volumn 156, Issue , 2011, Pages 1-24

  Akkari, Nesrine ^a   Enghoff, Henrik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Cuticular micro scutes; Limbus; Metazonital outgrowth; Ozopore; Prozonite; Surface microsculpture; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

CRYPTODESMIDAE; CYRTODESMIDAE; DIPLOPODA; FUHRMANNODESMIDAE; HAPLODESMIDAE; MACROSTERNODESMIDAE; NEARCTODESMIDAE; ONISCODESMIDAE; POLYDESMIDA; POLYDESMIDAE; POLYDESMIDEA; PYRGODESMIDAE;

EID: 84856439192     PISSN: 13132989     EISSN: 13132970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.156.2134     Document Type: Article

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