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Hessebius

Hessebius is a genus of centipedes belonging to the family Lithobiidae. It is distributed in Asia and North Africa.

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Hessebius
Hessebius ruoergaiensis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Myriapoda
Class: Chilopoda
Order: Lithobiomorpha
Family: Lithobiidae
Genus: Hessebius
Verhoeff, 1941
Type species
Hessebius kosswigi
Verhoeff, 1941
Diversity
>18 species

Hessebius is a genus of centipedes belonging to the family Lithobiidae.123456 It is distributed in Asia (from the Middle East to Mongolia and southeast China) and North Africa.23

Species

The Catalogue of Life lists 18 recognized species:1

  • Hessebius armatus Verhoeff, 1943
  • Hessebius barbipes (Porat, 1893)
  • Hessebius golovatchi Farzalieva, 2017
  • Hessebius jangtseanus (Verhoeff, 1942)
  • Hessebius longispinipes Ma, Pei & Zhu, 2009
  • Hessebius luculentus Ma, Lu, Liu, Hou & Pei, 2018
  • Hessebius luquensis Qiao, Qin, Ma, Su & Zhang, 2018
  • Hessebius major Folkmanová & Dobroruka, 1960
  • Hessebius megapus (Muralevitch, 1907)
  • Hessebius multicalcaratus Folkmanová, 1958
  • Hessebius multiforaminis Pei, Ma, Zapparoli & Zhu, 2010
  • Hessebius perelae Zalesskaja, 1978
  • Hessebius pervagatus Zalesskaja, 1978
  • Hessebius plumatus Zalesskaja, 1978
  • Hessebius prospinosus Qiao, Qin, Ma & Zhang, 2019
  • Hessebius ruoergaiensis Qiao, Qin, Ma, Su & Zhang, 2018
  • Hessebius scythodes Volkova, 2016
  • Hessebius zalesskajae Farzalieva, 2017

The list does not include some recently described species, such as Hessebius crassifemoralis7 and Hessebius yangi.8

References

References

  1. "Hessebius Verhoeff, 1941". Catalogue of Life. Species 2000: Leiden, the Netherlands. Retrieved 9 July 2026.
  2. Ma, Huiqin; Lu, Yanmin; Liu, Haipeng; Hou, Xiaojie; Pei, Sujian (2018). "Hessebius luculentus, a new species of the genus Hessebius Verhoeff, 1941 from China (Lithobiomorpha, Lithobiidae)". ZooKeys. 741: 193–202. doi:10.3897/zookeys.741.20061. PMC 5904453. PMID 29706776. Retrieved 3 April 2018.
  3. Qiao, Penghai; Qin, Wen; Ma, Huiqin; Su, Jianping; Zhang, Tongzuo (2018). "Two new species of the genus Hessebius Verhoeff, 1941 from China (Lithobiomorpha, Lithobiidae)". ZooKeys. 735: 65–82. doi:10.3897/zookeys.735.22237. PMC 5904330. PMID 29674862. Retrieved 3 April 2018.
  4. Farzalieva, G. Sh. (2017). "New species of the lithobiid genus Hessebius Verhoeff, 1941 (Lithobiomorpha, Lithobiidae) from eastern Kazakhstan". Entomological Review. 97: 136–142. doi:10.1134/S0013873817010146. S2CID 6876710.
  5. Ma, Huiqin; Pei, Sujian; Zhu, Mingsheng (2009). "A new species of the genus Hessebius Verhoeff, 1941 (Lithobiomorpha: Lithobiidae) from China". Entomological News. 120 (2): 195–200. doi:10.3157/021.120.0211. S2CID 85713102.
  6. Pei, Sujian; Ma, Huiqin; Zapparoli, Marzio; Zhu, Mingsheng (2010). "A review of the Chinese species of Hessebius Verhoeff, 1941 (Chilopoda: Lithobiomorpha: Lithobiidae)". Zootaxa. 2631: 51–61. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.2631.1.4. Retrieved 3 April 2018.
  7. Pei, Sujian; Ma, Huiqin; Lu, Yanmin; Liu, Haipeng; Liang, Kuijing (2021). "A new species of Hessebius Verhoeff, 1941 (Lithobiomorpha, Lithobiidae) from China with a key to species". Biodiversity Data Journal. 9. doi:10.3897/BDJ.9.e72336. PMC 8387307. PMID 34512096.
  8. Chao, Jui-Lung; Lee, Kwen-Shen; Chang, Hsueh-Wen (2025). "A new centipede of the genus Hessebius Verhoeff, 1941 from Southwestern China (Chilopoda, Lithobiomorpha, Lithobiidae)". Collection and Research. 37: 1–9. doi:10.6693/CAR.202501_(37).0001.