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Issue: Vol. 2477 No. 1: 19 May. 2010
Type: Articles
Published: 2010-05-19
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2477.1.1
Page range: 1–20
Abstract views: 42
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Pill-millipedes (Glomerida, Diplopoda) in Taiwan

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 Glomeridae taxonomy new species new genus new subfamily Taiwan

Abstract

The order Glomerida is represented in Taiwan by five species in two genera, two subfamilies and one family. All species, as well as one genus and one subfamily, seem to be endemic to Taiwan. Among the species, Mauriesia splendida sp. nov. belongs in a new genus, Mauriesia gen. nov., which in its turn represents a new subfamily, Mauriesiinae subfam. nov., the latter differing strikingly from the remaining three subfamilies of Glomeridae both in the presence of a caudomedian lobule on the male pygidium and in telopod stoutness and conformation. Four further species belong to the large, basically Asian genus Hyleoglomeris Verhoeff, 1910: H. aurata sp. nov., H. sinuata sp. nov., H. proximata sp. nov. and H. vittata Verhoeff, 1929. A key is provided to all of the species of Glomerida in Taiwan, and their distributions are mapped and discussed.

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