The millipede genus Anoplodesmus Pocock, 1895 in Vietnam (Diplopoda: Polydesmida: Paradoxosomatidae)
Author
Nguyen, Anh D.
text
Zootaxa
2010
2649
52
60
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.198772
e573a7e8-15c7-493f-bd65-4ab82360a4f2
1175-5326
198772
Anoplodesmus anichkini
Golovatch & Semenyuk, 2010
Figs 23–24
.
Material studied:
3 ɗɗ, 1 damaged Ψ,
Vietnam
, Tay Ninh Province, Logo-Xamat National Park (11 0 02’– 11
0 47’N
, 105 0 57’–106
0 04’E
), deciduous forest,
November 2003
, leg. Nguyen Duc Anh.
Previous record:
Vietnam
, Dong Nai Province, Cat Tien National Park (
Golovatch & Semenyuk, 2010
).
Remarks:
This species has recently been described from southern
Vietnam
(
Golovatch & Semenyuk, 2010
). The new record comes from a region lying only about 150 air-km southwest of the
type
locality.
The line drawings of gonopod structure in the original description fail to show a very long distofemoral process (
dp
), which actually is present in this species. Apparently, in the single gonopod that was illustrated, this process was broken off. The SEM images are added here (
Figs 22–23
) to correct this mistake, and to make this species more easily recognizable.
FIGURES 23–24.
Anoplodesmus anichkini
Golovatch & Semenyuk, 2010
, from Logo-Xamat National Park.
dp
= distofemoral process.
Key to
Anoplodesmus
species known from
Vietnam
(based on
ď
characters)
1. Gonopod without distofemoral retrorse spine. Solenophore (= postfemoral region) with only two distinct distal processes. Male sternite 5 with an evidently bifid lamina between coxae 4, and two projections between coxae 5........... .............................................................................................................................................................
A. borealis
sp. n.
- Gonopod with an obvious distofemoral process. Solenomere with more than two lobes. Male sternite 5 with only a lamina between coxae 4 .............................................................................................................................................. 2
2. Solenomere with three dentiform processes distally, and another two lobes parabasally on lamina medialis............... .....................................................................................................................................................................
A. anichkini
- Solenomere with two long spines and a knife-shaped lobe distally. Lamina medialis with two spines parabasally, while lamina lateralis with two smaller spines .........................................................................
A. solenophorus
sp. n.