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A new species of Paracortina from a Vietnamese cave, with remarkable secondary sexual characters in males (Callipodida, Paracortinidae)

Authors :
Anh D. Nguyen
Pavel Stoev
Lien T. P. Nguyen
Tam T. Vu
Source :
ZooKeys 1149: 181-195
Publication Year :
2023
Publisher :
Pensoft Publishers, 2023.

Abstract

A new millipede species, Paracortina kyrangsp. nov., is described from a cave in Cao Bang Province, northern Vietnam. The new species is diagnosed by having an extraordinarily long projection on the head of males, reduced eyes, a gonocoxite with two processes, a long and slender gonotelopodite with two long, clavate prefemoroidal processes densely covered with long macrosetae apically, and with a distal, reverse, short spine on mesal side, and a rather sinuous distal part of the telopodite. This is the third species of the genus that is known from Vietnam. A brief comparison of some secondary sexual characters is made.

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
13132970 and 13132989
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
ZooKeys
Accession number :
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