Description

Description. Males: Maximal length ca 45 mm, width of midbody PT 1.7 mm, 61 PT + telson. Body colour: white-yellowish; head and anterior 10 PT much whiter than the gray-yellowish middle and posterior ones; metazonites with a posterior light brown band, more pronounced on posterior PT (Fig. 14). Head: uniformly white, pilose, cephalic suture barely visible. Antennae: long, slightly extending beyond the posterior edge of PT 10 when folded backwards; length of antennomeres: 1 - 0.4 mm, 2 - 1.2 mm, 3 - 1.5 mm, 4 - 1.0 mm, 5 - 1.0 mm, 6 - 0.6 mm, 7 - 0.3 mm; antennomere ratio: 3> 2> 4 = 5> 6> 1> 7; tip of antennomere 7 with four cones protruding well beyond the edge. All antennomeres snow white. Eyes: very inconspicuous, transparent, in adults composed of 10 - 11 small ocelli in two rows (Fig. 15). Width of PT: 2 - 4 <1 = 5 <6 <7 <8 <9 <10. PT higher than broad, ratio: 1.06: 1. Dorsal side of collum and PT 2 - 3 smooth; complete crests series appearing from PT 4 onwards. Crests at midbody PT well apart from each other; 6 + 6 (lateralmost one less pronounced), no secondary crest series, all crests well expressed (ribbed), narrow, equally broad along the whole length of metazonite, not touching anteriorly (Fig. 16). Ozopores situated on midbody PT between crests 3 and 4, visible from sixth to last but two PT. Paraprocts divided into smaller dorsal and bigger ventral sclerites. Each dorsal sclerite with a pair of macrosetae situated on small lobes in vertical line. Spinnerets: long and slender, ending with a long seta each. All setae on telson dark brown, contrasting with the white background. All legs white-yellowish, very long and slender, ending with a long claw. Tarsal pads poorly developed, present only on leg-pairs 3 - 12. No particular modifications on coxae of pregonopodal legs. Prefemora of posterior legs less swollen than others. Leg-pairs 4 - 7: coxa subquadrate; prefemur strongly swollen. Leg-pair 9 (Figs 17, 28): coxa subquadrate; trochanter with two processes: anterior one (h) higher, leaf-shaped, its tip very sharp, spine-like, curved cephalad; posterior process (z) rounded with a small hook; a small pore (p) opening below the hook. Chaetotaxy (Table 1): all setae slender and apically pointed, in anterior position on all segments (excluding penultimate ones). Gonopods (Figs 18, 19): similar to those of congeners. Coxae (cx): process g short, almost half length of that of Sinocallipus deharvengi, apically truncated (in lateral view); k small and more abrupt apically than in Sinocallipus simplipodicus, Sinocallipus thai and Sinocallipus deharvengi. Femoroid (fe): with two slender, acicular (n), and one shorter and subfalcate (m) terminal projections, latter projecting into a long and thin filament. Cannula (ca): long and slender, not coiled. Females: 58 - 59 PT in adults; middle PT slightly broader than those of the male.

Common Names

No common names available.

Taxonomic Hierarchy

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Arthropoda

Class: Diplopoda

Order: Callipodida

Family: Sinocallipodidae

Genus: Sinocallipus

Species: Sinocallipus jaegeri Stoev & Enghoff, 2011