Rediscovery and phylogenetic analysis of Agnostrup, a least known genus of Mecistocephalidae (Chilopoda, Geophilomorpha) in China

By

Fan, Jiabo
You, Chun-Xue
Jiang, Chao

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2024-11-13

Original Publication

Zoosystematics and evolution

Volume

100

Series / Issue

Issue: 4

Pages

1557--1568

Subjects

Agnostrup , Description , Mecistocephalidae , molecular phylogeny , taxonomy

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia Pensoft

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/zse.100.135994

 

Abstract

The genus Agnostrup Foddai, Bonato, Pereira & Minelli, 2003 is one of the least known genera within the family Mecistocephalidae Bollman, 1893. In this study, we rediscovered the genus Agnostrup in China and provided a comprehensive redescription of A. striatus (Takakuwa, 1949). Additionally, we conducted a molecular phylogenetic analysis using CO1, 16S, and 28S sequence data, revealing a low genetic distance between Agnostrup and Nannarrup Foddai, Bonato, Pereira & Minelli, 2003. After comparing the morphological characteristics of these two genera, we synonymized the genus Nannarrupsyn. nov. with Agnostrup. As a result, three species previously belonging to the genus Nannarrup were transferred to Agnostrup: A. hoffmani (Foddai et al., 2003), comb. nov., A. innuptus (Tsukamoto, 2022), comb. nov., and A. oyamensis (Tsukamoto, 2022), comb. nov.