The genus Boreviulisoma Brolemann, 1928 — an Iberian-N African outlier of a mainly tropical tribe of millipedes (Diplopoda: Polydesmida: Paradoxosomatidae)
Author
Reboleira, Ana Sofia P. S.
Author
Enghoff, Henrik
text
Zootaxa
2013
3646
5
516
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journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3646.5.2
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1175-5326
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Genus
Boreviulisoma
Brolemann, 1928
Synonym
Liliputia
Attems, 1952
Included
species:
B. liouvillei
Brolemann, 1928
(the
type
species)
B. badium
(Attems, 1952)
B. barrocalense
n. sp.
Brolemann (1928) characterised his new genus
Boreviulisoma
as follows (translated from French): “This genus is very similar to
Duseviulisoma
[=
Scolodesmus
], with which it shares the gonopods. The gonopod coxae are shorter than usual in strongylosomatids [= paradoxosomatids], but the telopodite consists of the same parts; the length of the trunk [=prefemorite + femorite] is equal to that of the branches [=solenophore and solenomere]; the latter, although showing the same projections as
D. scutigerinum
Porat
, are very imperfectly divided; the efferent canal runs the well-known course, i.e., it shows an anterior torsion of 90° before entering the seminal branch [=solenomere]”.
The principal differences consist in the total absence of sternal differentiations in the male, in the dimensions of the legs which are very short and nearly similar from one end of the body to the other; and in the rugose structure of the metazona”.
We have nothing to add to Brolemann’s diagnosis of
Boreviulisoma
, except that leg length and metazonal rugosity are hardly significant characters at the genus level.