Geophilus hadesi SEM 7-10

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Description: English: Geophilus hadesi. 7 intermediate part of labrum, ventral 8 right half of the maxillary complex, ventral 9 forcipular segment, ventral 10 close up of forcipular coxosternite, ventral. SEM micrographs taken from female paratype NHMW8363 from cave Muda labudova. Abbreviations: labral bristle (lb), labral denticle (ld), first maxillae (MxI), second maxillae (MxII), first maxillary telopodite (tl), first maxillary coxal projection (cxp), second maxillary pretarsus (p), coxopleural suture (cxps), chitin-line (chl), basal denticle of tarsungulum (bd). Date: 2015. Source: (2015). "At the end of the rope: Geophilus hadesi sp. n. – the world’s deepest cave-dwelling centipede (Chilopoda, Geophilomorpha, Geophilidae)". ZooKeys 510: 95–114. DOI:10.3897/zookeys.510.9614. Author: Pavel Stoev, Nesrine Akkari, Ana Komericki, Gregory Edgecombe, Lucio Bonato.