Aletopauropus lentus MacSwain & Lanham, 1948

Descrizione

Aletopauropus is a genus of pauropods in the family Brachypauropodidae. This genus includes only two species: the type species, A. lentus, which is found in California and British Columbia, and a second species, A. tanakai, which is found in Japan. This genus is notable as one of only four genera of pauropods in which adults have only eight pairs of legs rather than the nine leg pairs usually found in adults in the order Tetramerocerata. Before the discovery of Aletopauropus, adult pauropods were described as having only nine or (rarely) ten pairs of legs.