{"status":"ok","message-type":"work","message-version":"1.0.0","message":{"indexed":{"date-parts":[[2025,11,28]],"date-time":"2025-11-28T16:59:30Z","timestamp":1764349170357},"reference-count":14,"publisher":"Pensoft Publishers","license":[{"start":{"date-parts":[[2018,3,7]],"date-time":"2018-03-07T00:00:00Z","timestamp":1520380800000},"content-version":"vor","delay-in-days":0,"URL":"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0\/"}],"content-domain":{"domain":[],"crossmark-restriction":false},"short-container-title":["ZK"],"abstract":"<jats:p>Morphological characters have been widely used in centipede systematics. Here, we aim to obtain morphological information from the preoral chamber and peristomatic structures of lithobiomorph centipedes, with taxonomic sampling focused on the species-rich genus<jats:italic>Lithobius<\/jats:italic>Leach, 1814. Towards this goal, we (i) examined the epipharynx and hypopharynx of 32 species belonging to four subgenera of the genus<jats:italic>Lithobius<\/jats:italic>, viz.<jats:italic>Lithobius<\/jats:italic>Leach, 1814,<jats:italic>Monotarsobius<\/jats:italic>Verhoeff, 1905,<jats:italic>Sigibius<\/jats:italic>Chamberlin, 1913 and<jats:italic>Ezembius<\/jats:italic>Chamberlin, 1919 using light and scanning electron microscopy, (ii) searched for phylogenetically informative characters and (iii) described interspecific variation. Three species of the lithobiid genera<jats:italic>Eupolybothrus<\/jats:italic>Verhoeff, 1907,<jats:italic>Disphaerobius<\/jats:italic>Attems, 1926 and<jats:italic>Neolithobius<\/jats:italic>Stuxberg, 1875 were additionally examined and considered as likely outgroups. New characters and character states are proposed as additions to current phylogenetic datasets. Similarities in the peristomatic structures ally<jats:italic>Disphaerobius<\/jats:italic>with Lithobius (Ezembius), suggesting that the subfamily Pterygoterginae is nested within Lithobiinae and<jats:italic>Lithobius<\/jats:italic>.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3897\/zookeys.741.21706","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2018,3,7]],"date-time":"2018-03-07T15:19:37Z","timestamp":1520435977000},"page":"49-75","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":4,"title":["The peristomatic structures as a source of systematic characters in the genus Lithobius Leach, 1814 (Myriapoda, Chilopoda)"],"prefix":"10.3897","volume":"741","author":[{"given":"Anne-Sarah","family":"Ganske","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Gregory D.","family":"Edgecombe","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Nesrine","family":"Akkari","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"2258","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2018,3,7]]},"reference":[{"key":"21706_B1","author":"Bonato","year":"2016"},{"key":"21706_B2","first-page":"181","article-title":"On the synonymy of Lithobius giganteus Sseliwanoff, 1881 and the taxonomic status of Porobius Attems, 1926 (Chilopoda).","volume":"87","author":"Eason","year":"1983","journal-title":"Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien"},{"key":"21706_B3","first-page":"49","article-title":"The Lithobiidae of Afghanistan with descriptions of three new species of the giganteus-group of Lithobius subgenus Ezembius, and a key to the central Asiatic species of this group (Chilopoda, Lithobiomorpha).","volume":"12","author":"Eason","year":"1986","journal-title":"Steenstrupia"},{"key":"21706_B4","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"327","DOI":"10.11646\/zootaxa.1668.1.17","article-title":"Centipede systematics: progress and problems.","volume":"1668","author":"Edgecombe","year":"2007","journal-title":"Zootaxa"},{"key":"21706_B5","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1111\/j.1096-0031.2008.00220.x"},{"key":"21706_B6","first-page":"295","article-title":"The contribution of preoral chamber and foregut morphology to the phylogenetics of Scolopendromorpha (Chilopoda).","volume":"81","author":"Edgecombe","year":"2009","journal-title":"Soil Organisms"},{"key":"21706_B7","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"121","DOI":"10.11646\/zootaxa.4258.2.2","article-title":"Revision of Disphaerobius Attems, 1926 (Chilopoda: Lithobiomorpha: Lithobiidae: Pterygoterginae), a centipede genus with remarkable sexual dimorphism.","volume":"4258","author":"Farzalieva","year":"2017","journal-title":"Zootaxa"},{"key":"21706_B8","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1007\/s00435-006-0027-8"},{"key":"21706_B9","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1002\/jmor.10578"},{"key":"21706_B10","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1111\/j.1096-3642.2011.00803.x"},{"key":"21706_B11","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1163\/187525410X1257862960344"},{"key":"21706_B12","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1071\/IS13035"},{"key":"21706_B13","first-page":"1","article-title":"Chilopoda.","author":"Verhoeff","year":"1902\u20131925","journal-title":"5, Abt. 2, Buch 1. Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft, Leipzig"},{"key":"21706_B14","first-page":"371","article-title":"Chilopoda \u2013 taxonomic overview: Order Lithobiomorpha.","author":"Zapparoli","year":"2011","journal-title":"The Myriapoda, Volume 1. Brill, Leiden"}],"container-title":["ZooKeys"],"original-title":[],"link":[{"URL":"https:\/\/zookeys.pensoft.net\/lib\/ajax_srv\/article_elements_srv.php?action=download_pdf&item_id=21706","content-type":"application\/pdf","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"text-mining"},{"URL":"https:\/\/zookeys.pensoft.net\/lib\/ajax_srv\/article_elements_srv.php?action=download_xml&item_id=21706","content-type":"application\/xml","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"text-mining"},{"URL":"https:\/\/zookeys.pensoft.net\/article_preview.php?id=21706&skip_redirect=1","content-type":"unspecified","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"similarity-checking"}],"deposited":{"date-parts":[[2020,10,29]],"date-time":"2020-10-29T02:17:49Z","timestamp":1603937869000},"score":1,"resource":{"primary":{"URL":"https:\/\/zookeys.pensoft.net\/articles.php?id=21706"}},"subtitle":[],"short-title":[],"issued":{"date-parts":[[2018,3,7]]},"references-count":14,"URL":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3897\/zookeys.741.21706","relation":{},"ISSN":["1313-2970","1313-2989"],"issn-type":[{"value":"1313-2970","type":"electronic"},{"value":"1313-2989","type":"print"}],"subject":[],"published":{"date-parts":[[2018,3,7]]}}}