Life after the mother's hug: Late post-embryonic development of Cryptops parisi (Chilopoda: Scolopendromorpha: Cryptopidae).
Adolescence
Canonical Variate Analysis
Developmental stages
Epimorpha
Epimorphosis
Sexual dimorphism
Journal
Arthropod structure & development
ISSN: 1873-5495
Titre abrégé: Arthropod Struct Dev
Pays: England
ID NLM: 100972232
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Jul 2020
Jul 2020
Historique:
received:
16
01
2020
revised:
17
04
2020
accepted:
20
04
2020
pubmed:
18
5
2020
medline:
27
10
2020
entrez:
17
5
2020
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Here we describe in detail the late post-embryonic development of the common European scolopendromorph centipede Cryptops parisi. Canonical variate analyses of two groups of external morphological characters, viz., cephalic capsule characters (head length, length of the anterior and posterior paramedian cephalic sutures) and coxopleuron surface characters (number of pores in the coxal pore-field, number of setae on the posterior coxopleuron edge, their number on the coxal pore-field, and their number posterior to the coxal pore-field) were conducted on a large sample of specimens collected from two localities in Serbia. Ten free-living stages are recognized: three pre-adult stages (adolescens I, II, and III) and seven adult stages (one maturus junior stage, four maturus, and two maturus senior stages). The fourth late post-embryonic stage is the first mature stage in both sexes. Sexual dimorphism in the aforementioned characters was not observed. Morphological variation of coxopleuron characters was more informative for the discrimination of developmental stages in Cryptops than the morphological variation of cephalic capsule characters.
Identifiants
pubmed: 32416473
pii: S1467-8039(20)30008-6
doi: 10.1016/j.asd.2020.100948
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doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
100948Informations de copyright
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