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Issue: Vol. 5104 No. 4: 1 Mar. 2022
Type: Article
Published: 2022-03-01
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5104.4.6
Page range: 567-576
Abstract views: 544
PDF downloaded: 29

The millipede genus Pandirodesmus Silvestri, 1932 in Trinidad and Tobago, Caribbean, with the description of P. jaggernauthi sp. nov. from Trinidad (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Chelodesmidae, Pandirodesmini)

Biological Collection and Data Management Unit, Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren, Belgium.
Institute for Problems of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninsky prospekt 33, Moscow, 119071 Russia.
The Hunterian, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland.
Myriapoda taxonomy new species key map

Abstract

During several collecting surveys for terrestrial micro-molluscs across Trinidad and Tobago, millipedes of the genus Pandirodesmus were taken by MR on both islands. Samples of P. rutherfordi Shelley & Smith, 2015, from Tobago, were recovered in addition to those containing a new species from Trinidad: Pandirodesmus jaggernauthi sp. nov. Additional records, illustrations, and descriptive notes are given for P. rutherfordi. A key is presented to all three species of the genus, and their distributions are mapped.

 

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