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Arthrolips picea
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Subspecies
Original
description
Synonyms
Clypeaster piceus Comolli, 1837
Arthrolips piceus (Comolli, 1837)
Arthrolips picea (Comolli, 1837)
Arthrolips regularis Reitter, 1877
Arthrolips ferrugatus Reitter, 1877
Arthrolips simoni Reitter, 1885
Sacium parvum Matthews, 1886
Arthrolips
parvum (Matthews, 1886)
Arthrolips
laevicollis Rey, 1889
Arthrolips sicardi Guillebeau, 1897
Sacium mundum Matthews, 1899
Arthrolips
mundum (Matthews, 1899)
Sacium longipes
Matthews, 1899
Arthrolips
longipes (Matthews, 1899)
Arthrolips scaber
Matthews, 1899
Note: the gender of the genus name is unclear. The original author
indicated neutral, or in later publications, male gender. The reviser
Bowestead (1999), however, assumes female gender, because "[l]exicon
evidence indicates that the few Greek nouns with `ps´ ending are
feminine". I find no support for Bowestead´s notion, because
Greek words with the ending "-ips" appear to be mostly masculine. Thus,
I would assume that Arthrolips is of male gender. However, in order not
to introduce further instability of the spelling of the species
epithet, I accept Bowestead´s (1999) determination of Arthrolips
as being of female gender.
Identification
Distribution
Biology
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