Skip to main content Skip to main navigation menu Skip to site footer
Responsive image
Issue: Vol. 5536 No. 3: 5 Nov. 2024
Type: Article
Published: 2024-11-05
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5536.3.8
Page range: 483-491
Abstract views: 20
PDF downloaded: 1

The millipede genus Skleroprotopus Attems, 1901 (Diplopoda, Julida, Mongoliulidae) in China, with description of a new species

Federal Scientific Center of the East Asia Terrestrial Biodiversity; Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Vladivostok 690022; Russia.
Federal Scientific Center of the East Asia Terrestrial Biodiversity; Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Vladivostok 690022; Russia.
Institute for Biological Problems of the North; Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Magadan 685000; Russia.; Altai State University; Barnaul; RF-656049; Russia
Myriapoda taxonomy distribution key Northeast and Northern China

Abstract

The genus Skleroprotopus Attems, 1901 is represented in China by five species, all keyed and mapped, including Skleroprotopus securifer Mikhaljova sp. nov. Taxonomic and distributional remarks are provided for all of the species.

 

References

  1. Attems, C. (1901) Myriopoden. In: Horváth, G. (Ed.), Zoologische Ergebnisse der dritten asiatischen Forschungsreise des Grafen Zichy. Vol. 2. Hornyánszky, Budapest and Hiersemann, Leipzig, pp. 275–310.
  2. Golovatch, S.I. (1979) A new genus for the USSR of the superfamily Parajuloidea (Diplopoda). Entomologicheskoe obozrenie, 58 (4), 904–908. [In Russian]
  3. Golovatch, S.I. (1980) A contribution to the millipede fauna of Korea (Diplopoda). Folia Entomologica Hungarica, 41 (1), 49–58.
  4. Golovatch, S.I. & Liu, W.X. (2020) Diversity, distribution patterns, and fauno-genesis of the millipedes (Diplopoda) of mainland China. In: Korsós, Z. & Dányi, L. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Myriapodology, Budapest, Hungary. ZooKeys, 930, 153–198. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.930.47513
  5. Lim, K.Y. & Mikhaljova, E.V. (2000) A new species of the millipede genus Skleroprotopus Attems, 1901 (Diplopoda: Julida: Mongoliulidae) from Korea. Arthropoda Selecta, 9 (2), 119–122.
  6. Mikhaljova, E.V. (2019) Identities of the millipede genera Skleroprotopus Attems, 1901 and Ansiulus Takakuwa, 1940 (Diplopoda: Julida: Mongoliulidae), with emphasis on the postembryonic development of Skleroprotopus coreanus (Pocock, 1895). Zootaxa, 4551 (5), 501–529. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4551.5.1
  7. Mikhaljova, E.V. & Korsós, Z. (2003) Millipedes (Diplopoda) from Korea, the Russian Far East, and China in the collection of the Hungarian Natural History Museum. Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae, 49 (3), 215–242.
  8. Mikhaljova, E.V. & Lim, K.-Y. (2000) Millipede fauna (Diplopoda) of South Korea. Korean Journal of Systematic Zoology, 16 (2), 147–157.
  9. Mikhaljova, E.V. & Lim, K.-Y. (2001) New millipedes from Korea, with notes on the identity of Epanerchodus koreanus Verhoeff, 1937 (Diplopoda). Arthropoda Selecta, 10 (1), 19–26.
  10. Miyosi, Y. (1957a) Beiträge zur Kenntnis japanischer Myriopoden 19. Aufsatz: Über eine neue Gattung und zwei neue Arten von Diplopoden. Zoological Magazine, 66 (1), 29–33.
  11. Miyosi, Y. (1957b) Beiträge zur Kenntnis japanischer Myriopoden 22. Aufsatz: Über zwei neue Arten von Diplopoda. Zoological Magazine, 66 (10), 403–406.
  12. Murakami, Y. & Paik, K.Y. (1968) Results of the speleological survey in South Korea 1966. XI. Cave-dwelling myriapods from the southern part of Korea. Bulletin of the National Science Museum, 11 (4), 363–384.
  13. Pocock, R.I. (1895) Report upon the Chilopoda and Diplopoda obtained by P.W. Bassett-Smith, Esq., Surgeon R.N., and J.J. walker, Esq., R.N., during the cruise in the Chinese Seas of H.M.S. “Penguin”, Commander w.U. Moore commanding. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 6, 15, 346–372. https://doi.org/10.1080/00222939508677895
  14. Pocock, R.I. (1903) Remarks upon the morphology and systematics of certain chilognathous diplopods. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 7, 12, 515–532. https://doi.org/10.1080/00222930308678889
  15. Shinohara, K. (1960) Three New Species of Juloidea (Diplopoda) from Chichibu. Bulletin of the Chichibu Museum Natural History, 10, 23–30.
  16. Takakuwa, Y. (1940a) Über Skleroprotopus-Arten (Chilopoda). Annotationes Zoologicae Japonenses, 19 (1), 19–22.
  17. Takakuwa, Y. (1940b) Weitere Skleroprotopus-Arten (Diplopoda). Annotationes Zoologicae Japonenses, 19 (4), 289–293.
  18. Takakuwa, Y. (1940c) Über eine neue Diplopodengattung aus Japan. Transactions of the Sapporo Natural History Society, 16 (3), 117–119.
  19. Takakuwa, Y. (1942) Zur Kenntnis der japanischen Diplopoden. Annotationes Zoologicae Japonenses, 21 (1), 39–47.
  20. Takakuwa, Y. & Takashima, H. (1949) Myriapods collected in Shansi, North China. Acta Arachnologica, 9 (314), 51–69. https://doi.org/10.2476/asjaa.11.51
  21. Vagalinski, B., Meng, K., Bachvarova, D. & Stoev, P. (2018) A redescription of the poorly known cave millipede Skleroprotopus membranipedalis Zhang, 1985 (Diplopoda, Julida, Mongoliulidae), with an overview of the genus Skleroprotopus Attems, 1901. Subterranean Biology, 26, 55–66. https://doi.org/10.3897/subtbiol.26.26225
  22. Verhoeff, K.W. (1939) Skleroprotopus in japanischer Höhle. Mitteilungen über Höhlen-und Karstforschung, 1939, 8–16.
  23. Wang, D.Q. & Mauriès, J.P. (1996) Review and perspective of study on myriapodology of China. In: Geoffroy, J.J., Mauriès, J.P. & Nguyen, D.-J.M. (Eds.), Acta Myriapodologica. Mémoires du Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Paris, 169, 81–99.
  24. Zhang, C.Z. (1985) A new species of millipeds of the genus Skleroprotopus in Stone Buddha Cave, Fangshang County, Beijing. In: Karst geomorphology and speleology. Science Press, Beijing, pp. 154–156. [In Chinese]