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Issue: Vol. 2399 No. 1: 15 Mar. 2010
Type: Articles
Published: 2010-03-15
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2399.1.2
Page range: 20–30
Abstract views: 56
PDF downloaded: 1

The millipede genus Anoplodesmus Pocock, 1895, recorded in Taiwan for the first time, with descriptions of two new species (Diplopoda: Polydesmida: Paradoxosomatidae: Sulciferini)

Department of Biological Sciences, National Sun Yat-Sen University, 70 Lien-Hai Rd., Kaohsiung 804, Taiwan, ROC
Institute for Problems of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninsky pr. 33. Moscow 119071, Russia
Institute of Biology and Soil Science, Far Eastern Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Prospekt Stoletiya Vladivostoka 159, Vladivostok 690022, Russia
Department of Biological Sciences, National Sun Yat-Sen University, 70 Lien-Hai Rd., Kaohsiung 804, Taiwan, ROC
Myriapoda Millipede Anoplodesmus Geniculodesmus inexpectatus systematics new species Taiwan

Abstract

The large, South and Southeast Asian millipede genus Anoplodesmus is rediagnosed and here reported from Taiwan for the first time, with two new, apparently northeasternmost species involved: A. spiniger sp. nov. and A. aspinosus sp. nov. Both of these congeners differ from each other primarily in several details of gonopod structure. “Takao”, the type locality of Geniculodesmus inexpectatus (Attems, 1944), is here rectified as actually being the same as Kaohsiung, Taiwan, not “Mount Takao, Hachiouji-shi, Tokyo Prefecture, Japan”.

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