A new species of <i>Bothropolys</i> Wood, 1862 (Lithobiomorpha, Lithobiidae) from south-western China.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The genus Bothropolys is mostly known from North America and East Asia. So far eleven species of Bothropolys are reported in China.

New information

A new lithobiid species, Bothropolysbiserialis sp. nov., is described and illustrated from the Yintiaoling National Nature Reserve in Wuxi County, Chongqing Municipality, south-western China. The new species is primarily compared with B.yoshidai Takakuwa, 1939, from the Hubei and Fujian Provinces, China, as well as Japan and North Korea and B.curvatus Takakuwa, 1939, from the Yunnan Province, China, as well as Japan and B.rugosus (Meinert, 1872), widely distributed in China, but it can easily be distinguished by antennae usually 20+20 articles, ocelli 21-27, usually 25 on each

SUBMITTER: Gu S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11969163 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature