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Issue: Vol. 4722 No. 1: 10 Jan. 2020
Type: Article
Published: 2020-01-10
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4722.1.3
Page range: 41–49
Abstract views: 112
PDF downloaded: 3

Two new species and a new record of polydesmoid millipedes from Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, eastern China (Diplopoda, Polydesmida)

Department of Entomology, College of Agriculture, South China Agricultural University, 483 Wushanlu, Guangzhou 510642, China
School of Horticulture and Plant Protection & Institute of Applied Entomology, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou 225009, China
Myriapoda Niponia Epanerchodus taxonomy new record new species

Abstract

The millipede, Niponia nodulosa Verhoeff, 1931 is recorded from Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, eastern China, for the first time. Two new species of the genus Epanerchodus Attems, 1901 are described from the Jiangzhe Area: Epanerchodus campus n. sp. and Epanerchodus bishou n. sp..

 

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