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Issue: Vol. 4006 No. 3: 25 Aug. 2015
Type: Article
Published: 2015-08-25
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4006.3.6
Page range: 521–539
Abstract views: 31
PDF downloaded: 2

Records of Pauropoda (Pauropodidae, Brachypauropodidae, Eurypauropodidae, Sphaeropauropodidae) from China, with a key to the species and descriptions of three new species of Decapauropus

Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Biodiversity and Biotechnology, College of Life Sciences, Nanjing Normal University, 1 Wenyuan Rd, Nanjing 210023, China.
Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Biodiversity and Biotechnology, College of Life Sciences, Nanjing Normal University, 1 Wenyuan Rd, Nanjing 210023, China.
Entomology and Plant Pathology, Institute of Agriculture, the University of Tennessee, 2431 Joe Johnson Drive Knoxville, TN 37996-4561, USA.
Jiangsu Key Laboratory for Biodiversity and Biotechnology, College of Life Sciences, Nanjing Normal University, 1 Wenyuan Rd, Nanjing 210023, China.
Myriapoda Pauropoda soil zoology new species taxonomy China

Abstract

The arthropod class Pauropoda was not recognized from China until 1988, but currently 36 known species are now recorded from 27 sites in 18 provinces. This paper contains descriptions of three new species of Decapauropus Remy, 1931: D. biclavula sp. n., D. annulcordatus sp. n. and D. tribulosus sp. n. from Jiangsu, Hunan, Jiangxi and Guangxi Provinces, respectively. These three new species bring the known pauropod fauna of China to 39 species in 11 genera and four families. In addition, Dasongius (Sun & Guo, 2010) nom. nov. is proposed to replace the invalid junior homonym of Songius Sun & Guo, 2010.