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A new micropolydesmoid millipede of the genus Eutrichodesmus Silvestri, 1910 from Cambodia, with a key to species in mainland Southeast Asia (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Haplodesmidae)

Authors :
Ruttapon Srisonchai
Natdanai Likhitrakarn
Chirasak Sutcharit
Ekgachai Jeratthitikul
Warut Siriwut
Phanara Thrach
Samol Chhuoy
Peng Bun Ngor
Somsak Panha
Source :
ZooKeys, Vol 996, Iss , Pp 59-91 (2020)
Publication Year :
2020
Publisher :
Pensoft Publishers, 2020.

Abstract

The micropolydesmoid millipede family Haplodesmidae is here recorded from Cambodia for the first time through the discovery of the first, new species of the genus Eutrichodesmus Silvestri, 1910: E. cambodiensis sp. nov. This new species is described from two limestone habitats in Kampot Province, based on abundant material. It is easily distinguished from all related congeners by the following combination of characters: body greyish-brown; limbus roundly lobulate; solenomere partially divided from acropodite by a digitiform lobe, but without hairpad. Brief remarks on the previously-proposed “pecularis-group” are provided and a second group, the “demangei-group”, is established and discussed on the basis of morphological evidence, updating the number of recognised species groups of Eutrichodesmus to two. Detailed morphological illustrations, photographs and a distribution map, as well as remarks on its habitat and mating behaviour of the new species are presented. Furthermore, the current distributions of all 55 presently-known species of Eutrichodesmus are provided and a key to all 23 species that occur in mainland Southeast Asia is given.

Subjects

Subjects :
Zoology
QL1-991

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
13132970
Volume :
996
Issue :
59-91
Database :
Directory of Open Access Journals
Journal :
ZooKeys
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
edsdoj.be0f319350c44142a02638f0e17bf34a
Document Type :
article
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.996.57411