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Issue: Vol. 2718 No. 1: 9 Dec. 2010
Type: Articles
Published: 2010-12-09
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2718.1.4
Page range: 51–63
Abstract views: 36
PDF downloaded: 1

The millipede order Platydesmida (Diplopoda) in Taiwan, with descriptions of two new species

Institute of Biology and Soil Science, Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, prospekt Stoletiya Vladivostoka 159, Vladivostok 690022, Russia
Institute for Problems of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninsky prospekt 33, Moscow 119071, Russia
Department of Zoology, Hungarian Natural History Museum, Baross u. 13, H-1088 Budapest, Hungary Present address: Tropical Biosphere Research Center, University of the Ryukyus, Nishihara, Okinawa 903-0213, Japan
Department of Biological Sciences, National Sun Yat-Sen University, 70 Lien-Hai Road, Kaohsiung 804, Taiwan, ROC
Department of Biological Sciences, National Sun Yat-Sen University, 70 Lien-Hai Road, Kaohsiung 804, Taiwan, ROC
Myriapoda Millipede Andrognathidae new species taxonomy key Taiwan

Abstract

The diplopod order Platydesmida appears to be represented in Taiwan by two new species from one family, Andrognathidae, and two genera: Brachycybe disticha sp. nov. and Yamasinaium latum sp. nov. Descriptions of these two species are presented, also based on examination of the types of the geographically closest species of each genus: Brachycybe nodulosa (Verhoeff, 1935) and Yamasinaium noduligerum Verhoeff, 1939, both from Japan. The distributions of the Taiwanese species of Brachycybe and Yamasinaium are mapped and discussed.

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