A revision of the millipede family Paracortinidae (Diplopoda, Callipodida)
Author
Akkari, Nesrine
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5019-4833
Naturhistorisches Museum Wien, Burgring 7, 1010 Wien, Austria
nes.akkari@gmail.com
Author
Macek, Oliver
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8146-5373
Naturhistorisches Museum Wien, Burgring 7, 1010 Wien, Austria
Author
Stoev, Pavel
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5702-5677
National Museum of Natural History at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Tsar Osvoboditel Blvd. 1, 1000 Sofia, Bulgaria & Pensoft Publishers, Prof. G. Zlatarski Str. 12, Sofia, Bulgaria
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Paracortina leptoclada Wang & Zhang, 1993
Fig. 28
Paracortina leptoclada
Wang & Zhang, 1993: 376-377, figs 1-5;
Stoev and Geoffroy 2004
: 99, 103, key;
Liu and Tian 2015
: 139, key.
Diagnosis.
Most similar to
P. thallina
, with an expanded distal part of the telopodite bearing a large rounded lateral lamella and a hook-shaped process pointing anterodistad. Different in the shape and orientation of the distal lamella, laterally positioned and folded 180 degrees and a shorter mesal coxal process.
Descriptive notes.
Male holotype 55 mm long, 2.3 mm wide, general colour brown, 55 podous +2 apodous PTs, coxa of leg pairs 1 and 7 with two processes (
Wang and Zhang 1993
;
Wang 1996
), head with a large projection on the vertex (
Wang 1996
).
Male sexual characters.
(based on
Wang and Zhang 1993
: fig. 19) Leg-pair 7 with two processes on coxa.
Gonopods
.
Parallel and slightly diverging. Each gonopod with two uniformly setose, clavate prefemoroidal processes (
pf1
and
pf2
), one large falcate coxal process narrowing at mid-length and apically projecting in a pointed tip, reaching the distal part of the telopodite. Telopodite (
T
) with a stout stem, distally expanding in a larger process projecting in a broad lateral folded lamella and a thin curved mesal process pointing anterodistad, apically bifurcated to accommodate the solenomere (
s
) and parasolenomere (
ps
).
Distribution.
Shangrila County, Yunnan, China (Fig.
28
).
Comments.
Species known only from its original description.