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Obelostreptus Attems, 1909
892131 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:892131)
accepted
Genus
- Species Obelostreptus acifer Attems, 1909
- Species Obelostreptus bilamellatus VandenSpiegel, 2015
- Species Obelostreptus nakitawa (Silvestri, 1907)
- Species Obelostreptus proximospinosus Krabbe, 1982
- Species Obelostreptus levis Attems, 1935 accepted as Ophistreptus levis (Attems, 1935)
- Species Obelostreptus oligozonus Attems, 1927 accepted as Obelostreptus nakitawa (Silvestri, 1907)
Attems, C. M. T. Graf von. (1909). Äthiopische Myriopoden. Gesammelt von Prof. O. Naumann und K. v. Erlanger. <em>Zoologische Jahrbücher, Abteilung für Systematik, Geographie und Biologie der Tiere.</em> 27(4): 391-418. Jena.
page(s): 412 [details]
page(s): 412 [details]
Sierwald, P.; Decker, P.; Spelda, J. (2025). MilliBase. Obelostreptus Attems, 1909. Accessed at: https://www.millibase.org/aphia.php/1zqjmv'%22()%7B%7D%3Cx%3E:1zqjmv;9/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=892131 on 2025-05-13
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Attems, C. M. T. Graf von. (1909). Äthiopische Myriopoden. Gesammelt von Prof. O. Naumann und K. v. Erlanger. <em>Zoologische Jahrbücher, Abteilung für Systematik, Geographie und Biologie der Tiere.</em> 27(4): 391-418. Jena.
page(s): 412 [details]
additional source Attems, C. M. T. Graf von. (1914). Afrikanische Spirostreptiden nebst Überblick über die Spirostreptiden orbis terrarum. <em>Zoologica (Stuttgart).</em> 25(65-66): 1-235. Stuttgart., available online at https://www.zobodat.at/pdf/Zoologica_25_65-66_0001-0233.pdf, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10232973
page(s): 125 [details]
additional source Hoffman, R. L. (1977). Studies on spirostreptoid millipeds. XIII. Adiaphorostreptus, a remarkable new genus from India, type of a new family in the Spirostreptoidea. Entomologische Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Staatsinstitut und Zoologischen Museum Hamburg, 5(96): 137-143
page(s): 142; note: In discussion [details]
additional source Hoffman, R. L. (1980). Classification of the Diplopoda. 1-237. Genève.
page(s): 94; note: [in Spirostreptidae] [details]
additional source Hoffman, R. L.; Howell, K. M. (1982). A highly disjunct new species, genus, and tribe of harpagophorid millipeds from East Africa (Spirostreptidea). Revue zoologique africaine, 96(1): 209-215
page(s): 209 [details]
additional source Krabbe, E. (1982). Systematik der Spirostreptidae (Diplopoda, Spirostreptomorpha). Abhandlungen und Verhandlungen des Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereins in Hamburg (N.F.), 24: 1-476. Hamburg
page(s): 417; note: = Harpagophoridae [details]
additional source Verhoeff, K. W. (1941). Über Spirostreptiden Südamerikas, vergleichende Morphologie und Mechanik der Gonopoden und eine neue Rhinocriciden-Gattung. <em>Archiv für Naturgeschichte, N.F.</em> 10(2): 278-302. Leipzig.
page(s): 294 [details]
additional source Hoffman, R. L. (1993). Biogeography of East African montane forest millipedes. In: Lovett, Jon C.; Wasser, Samuel K. [Eds]. Biogeography and ecology of the rain forests of eastern Africa. Cambridge University Press. Cambridge, England. 1993: i-ix, 1-341, 103-115
page(s): 107 [details]
additional source Redman, G. T.; Hamer, M. L.; Barraclough, D. A. (2003). Revision of the Harpagophoridae (Diplopoda, Spirostreptida) of southern Africa, including descriptions of five new species. African Invertebrates, 44(2): 203-277
page(s): 203, 275; note: "Examination of illustrations kindly made available by Dr Van den Spiegel, has shown that species of this genus lack a distinct, upturned caudal spine on the pre-anal ring, and the gonopods of Obelos...
[details]
additional source Mwabvu, T.; VandenSpiegel, D. (2015). A review of the genus Obelostreptus Attems, 1909 (Diplopoda, Spirostreptida, Spirostreptidae) with the description of a new species from Kenya. <em>African Invertebrates.</em> 56 (1): 51-61., available online at https://africaninvertebrates.org/ojs/index.php/AI/article/viewFile/364/360 [details]
additional source Enghoff, H.; Larsson, T. B. (2018). Pseudotibiozus Demange, 1970—millipedes of the Eastern Arc Mountains, Tanzania (Diplopoda, Spirostreptida, Spirostreptidae). <em>Zootaxa.</em> 4425(3): 541., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4425.3.7
page(s): 552-553; note: discussion [details]
additional source Jeekel, C. A. W. (1971). Nomenclator generum et familiarum Diplopodorum: A list of the genus and family-group names in the Class Diplopoda from the 10th edition of Linnaeus, 1758, to the end of 1957. Monografieen van de Nederlandse Entomologische Vereniging, 5: 1-412. Amsterdam, available online at https://nev.nl/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Mono-05-Jeekel-1970-OCR.pdf
page(s): 131 [details]
page(s): 412 [details]
additional source Attems, C. M. T. Graf von. (1914). Afrikanische Spirostreptiden nebst Überblick über die Spirostreptiden orbis terrarum. <em>Zoologica (Stuttgart).</em> 25(65-66): 1-235. Stuttgart., available online at https://www.zobodat.at/pdf/Zoologica_25_65-66_0001-0233.pdf, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10232973
page(s): 125 [details]
additional source Hoffman, R. L. (1977). Studies on spirostreptoid millipeds. XIII. Adiaphorostreptus, a remarkable new genus from India, type of a new family in the Spirostreptoidea. Entomologische Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Staatsinstitut und Zoologischen Museum Hamburg, 5(96): 137-143
page(s): 142; note: In discussion [details]
additional source Hoffman, R. L. (1980). Classification of the Diplopoda. 1-237. Genève.
page(s): 94; note: [in Spirostreptidae] [details]
additional source Hoffman, R. L.; Howell, K. M. (1982). A highly disjunct new species, genus, and tribe of harpagophorid millipeds from East Africa (Spirostreptidea). Revue zoologique africaine, 96(1): 209-215
page(s): 209 [details]
additional source Krabbe, E. (1982). Systematik der Spirostreptidae (Diplopoda, Spirostreptomorpha). Abhandlungen und Verhandlungen des Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereins in Hamburg (N.F.), 24: 1-476. Hamburg
page(s): 417; note: = Harpagophoridae [details]
additional source Verhoeff, K. W. (1941). Über Spirostreptiden Südamerikas, vergleichende Morphologie und Mechanik der Gonopoden und eine neue Rhinocriciden-Gattung. <em>Archiv für Naturgeschichte, N.F.</em> 10(2): 278-302. Leipzig.
page(s): 294 [details]
additional source Hoffman, R. L. (1993). Biogeography of East African montane forest millipedes. In: Lovett, Jon C.; Wasser, Samuel K. [Eds]. Biogeography and ecology of the rain forests of eastern Africa. Cambridge University Press. Cambridge, England. 1993: i-ix, 1-341, 103-115
page(s): 107 [details]
additional source Redman, G. T.; Hamer, M. L.; Barraclough, D. A. (2003). Revision of the Harpagophoridae (Diplopoda, Spirostreptida) of southern Africa, including descriptions of five new species. African Invertebrates, 44(2): 203-277
page(s): 203, 275; note: "Examination of illustrations kindly made available by Dr Van den Spiegel, has shown that species of this genus lack a distinct, upturned caudal spine on the pre-anal ring, and the gonopods of Obelos...
"Examination of illustrations kindly made available by Dr Van den Spiegel, has shown that species of this
genus lack a distinct, upturned caudal spine on the pre-anal ring, and the gonopods of Obelostreptus resemble those of Spirostreptidae more closely. Examination of illustrations kindly made available by Dr Van den Spiegel, has shown that species of this genus lack a distinct, upturned caudal spine on the pre-anal ring, and the gonopods of
Obelostreptus resemble those of Spirostreptidae more closely."
additional source Mwabvu, T.; VandenSpiegel, D. (2015). A review of the genus Obelostreptus Attems, 1909 (Diplopoda, Spirostreptida, Spirostreptidae) with the description of a new species from Kenya. <em>African Invertebrates.</em> 56 (1): 51-61., available online at https://africaninvertebrates.org/ojs/index.php/AI/article/viewFile/364/360 [details]
additional source Enghoff, H.; Larsson, T. B. (2018). Pseudotibiozus Demange, 1970—millipedes of the Eastern Arc Mountains, Tanzania (Diplopoda, Spirostreptida, Spirostreptidae). <em>Zootaxa.</em> 4425(3): 541., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4425.3.7
page(s): 552-553; note: discussion [details]
additional source Jeekel, C. A. W. (1971). Nomenclator generum et familiarum Diplopodorum: A list of the genus and family-group names in the Class Diplopoda from the 10th edition of Linnaeus, 1758, to the end of 1957. Monografieen van de Nederlandse Entomologische Vereniging, 5: 1-412. Amsterdam, available online at https://nev.nl/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Mono-05-Jeekel-1970-OCR.pdf
page(s): 131 [details]
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