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Issue: Vol. 3104 No. 1: 21 Nov. 2011
Type: Articles
Published: 2011-11-21
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3104.1.5
Page range: 59–63
Abstract views: 27
PDF downloaded: 1

The millipede family Metopidiotrichidae new to the fauna of Taiwan: the description of a new species; a review of and a key to the Chordeumatida occurring in Taiwan (Diplopoda)

Institute of Biology and Soil Science, Far Eastern Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, prospekt Stoletiya Vladivostoka 159, Vladivostok 690022, Russia.
Institute for Problems of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninsky prospekt 33, Moscow 119071, Russia
Department of Biological Sciences, National Sun Yat-Sen University, 70 Lien-Hai Road, Kaohsiung 804, Taiwan, ROC
Myriapoda Millipede chordeumatidans new record new species taxonomy key distribution Taiwan

Abstract

The family Metopidiotrichidae and the genus Metopidiothrix Attems, 1907 are formally new to the fauna of Taiwan, due to the discovery of Metopidiothrix taiwanensis sp. nov. The fauna of Chordeumatida of Taiwan is reviewed and keyed, at present containing 13 unquestioned species from three genera and three families. Three further species, one genus and one family are dubious either as taxa or as elements of the Taiwanese fauna, or both. Palaearctic elements, such as Diplomaragnidae and Niponiosomatidae, appear to strongly dominate over austral/tropical ones (Metopidiotrichidae).

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