Biology:Asanada agharkari
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Myriapoda |
| Class: | Chilopoda |
| Order: | Scolopendromorpha |
| Family: | Scolopendridae |
| Genus: | Asanada |
| Species: | A. agharkari
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| Binomial name | |
| Asanada agharkari Gravely, 1912
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Asanada agharkari is a species of small Scolopendrid centipede in the subfamily Scolopendrinae[1][2]
Appearance
Asanada agharkari is small, measuring between 13 and 32 mm in length.[1][3] The antennae have 17 articles, though Gravely initially described the species with 17-18.[3] They are dark reddish-purple in colour, but fade to pale brown or grey when preserved in alcohol.[1]
Subspecies
Asanada agharkari singhbhumensis
Asanada agharkari singhbhumensis is found in the Singhbhum district, and is distinguishable from A. a. agharkari only by colour; it is grey with a dark line down the middle of its trunk.[1]
Taxonomy
Asanada agharkari was initially described by Frederic Henry Gravely in 1912 in the seventh volume of the Records of the Indian Museum, a journal based in Calcutta.[1] He gave it the genus name Pseudcryptops (Pocock, 1891), a name which has since been synonymized with Asanada, and also described two subspecies: A. a. agharkari and A. a. singhbhumensis.[4][1][2] The last taxonomic review was done in 1978 by Jangi and Dass, in the same paper that synonymized Pseudocryptops with Asanada.[5][3][6]
The type specimens are alcohol-preserved at the Zoological Survey of India in Calcutta. There is one adult and one juvenile, both are slightly damaged and have suffered decolourization due to long preservation.[3]
Distribution
A. agharkari endemic to India and is found the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, as well as the states Bihar, Maharashtra, Odisha (Orissa), and Madhya Pradesh.[7] The type locality (of the lectotype) is Koyna Valley in the Western Ghats, in Satara District in Maharashtra.[5]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Indian Museum.; Museum, Indian; India, Zoological Survey of (1912). Records of the Indian Museum. 7. Calcutta: Pub. by order of the trustees of the Indian Museum. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/41773.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Asanada agharkari (Gravely, 1912)" (in en). https://www.gbif.org/species/157476453.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Jangi, B.S.; Dass, C.M.S. (August 1978). "Identity and redescription of the Indian centipedePseudocryptops agharkariGravely (Chilopoda: Scolopendromorpha: Scolopendridae)". Journal of Natural History 12 (4): 423–426. doi:10.1080/00222937800770281. ISSN 0022-2933. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00222937800770281.
- ↑ "ITIS - Report: Pseudocryptops". https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=1090771#null.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 ".:CHILOBASE:.". https://chilobase.biologia.unipd.it/searches/result_species/559.
- ↑ Khanna, Vinod (1994). "CENTIPEDE FAUNA OF CORBETT NATIONAL PARK, UTTAR PRADESH, INDIA (CHILOPODA : SCOLOPENDROMORPHA : SCOLOPBNDRIDAE)". Records of the Zoological Survey of India 94: 329–350. http://faunaofindia.nic.in/PDFVolumes/records/094/02-04/0329-0350.pdf.
- ↑ Khanna, V. (2006). A checklist of centipedes (Chilopoda: Scolopendromorpha) from central India. doi:10.11609/JOTT.ZPJ.1427.2164-6. https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/A-checklist-of-centipedes-(Chilopoda:-from-central-Khanna/7f81df7765f31395a0c14cb59bcd933db1badcbc.
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