A mountain of millipedes VII: The genus Eviulisoma Silvestri, 1910, in the Udzungwa Mountains, Tanzania, and related species from other Eastern Arc Mountains. With notes on Eoseviulisoma Brolemann, 1920, and Suohelisoma Hoffman, 1963 (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Paradoxosomatidae)
Author
Enghoff, Henrik
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European Journal of Taxonomy
2018
2018-06-19
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The status of
Suohelisoma
Hofmann, 1964
Hoffman (1964)
erected
Suohelisoma
(monotypic for
S. ulugurense
Hoffman, 1964
) on the basis of an unbranched gonopod telopodite without “Femoralfortsätze”. Examination of the gonopod of a specimen of
S. ulugurense
(
Tanzania
, Uluguru Mts, Lupanga, W,
1900 m
a.s.l.,
1 Jul. 1981
, M. Stoltze and N. Scharff leg., ZMUC) with the SEM (
Fig. 39
) has, however, revealed a small separate sclerite at the base of the acropodite. This sclerite might be interpreted as a very small mesal acropodital process, but also as a separate ʻfemoriteʼ as seen in
E. articulatum
(
Fig. 33
). If the latter interpretation is correct,
S. ulugurense
has no mesal acropodital process.
In other characters,
S. ulugurense
agrees with
Eviulisoma
spp., notably in the presence of a strongly excavated sternum 6 and only one transverse row of setae on postcollar body rings. The sternum 6 excavation in
S. ulugurense
is, however, smaller than that of
Eviulisoma
spp. Future analyses may show that
S. ulugurense
is nothing but a highly specialized
Eviulisoma
, but for the time being
Suohelisoma
is retained as a valid, separate genus.