El genero Cubobolus (Diplopoda: Spirobolida: Rhinocricidae) en Cuba.

Authors

Antonio R. Perez-Asso, Santo Domingo, República Dominicana

Date of this Version

September 1998

Comments

Published in Insecta Mundi Vol. 12, No. 3-4, September-December, 1998. Copyright © 1998 by Perez-Asso.

Insecta Mundi, published by the Center for Systematic Entomology, is available online at http://centerforsystematicentomology.org/.

Abstract

Resumen: Se rivalida el género Cubobolus Chamberlin (1918) para Cuba; en el se incluyen algunas especies ubicadas anteriormente en Rhinocricus Karsch (1881) y Anadenobolus Silvestri (1897): Cubobolus sagittatus (Loomis 1938), Cubobolus pertenuis (Loomis 1938), Cubobolus sinuosus (Loomis 1938), y Cubobolus perplicatus (Loomis 1938). Se describen además seis nuevas especies: Cubobolus potrerillo, C. escambray, C. dentatus, C. jibacoa, C. monitongo, y C. cuba. Se comenta la exclusión, hasta el momento, de representantes del género Anadenobolus en la isla de Cuba.

Abstract: The genus Cubobolus Chamberlin (1918) is revalidated for Cuba. Six new species (Cubobolus potrerillo, C. escambray, C. dentatus, C. jibacoa, C. monitongo, and C. cuba) are described. Some species, previously in Rhinocricus Karsh (1881) and Anadenobolus Silvestri (18971, are assigned to Cubobolus: C. sagittatus (Loomis 1938), C. sinuosus (Loomis 19381, and C. perplicatus (Loomis, 1938). Anadenobolus is excluded from Cuba.