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Issue: Vol. 2734 No. 1: 7 Jan. 2011
Type: Articles
Published: 2011-01-07
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2734.1.4
Page range: 53–62
Abstract views: 40
PDF downloaded: 19

A review of the milliped genus Haplogonopus with commentary on the so-called “Charactopygus-Bildung” modification of spirostreptid paraprocts (Diplopoda: Spirostreptidae)

Virginia Museum of Natural History, Martinsville, Virginia 24112, USA
Myriapoda Spirostreptidae Haplogonopinae Haplogonopus paraprocts Tanzania Kenya

Abstract

The status of the monotypic taxon Haplogonopus (Verhoeff, 1941), proposed for a disjunct Tanzanian spirostreptoid, is reviewed in light of two additional species, which despite different peripheral appearances, are referable to this genus on the basis of genitalic features. Haplogonopus inflatannulus Verhoeff is redescribed from topotypic material, the nominal species Charactopygus jeanneli (Brolemann, 1920) is relocated in Haplogonopus (n. comb.), and the new species H. cin- gulatus is described from the Rondo Plateau in southeastern Tanzania. A terminology for the modified paraproct structure (“Charactopygus-Bildung”) of spirostreptids is proposed.

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