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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ZooKeys
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2023-12-28
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1187.113473
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1187.113473
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Genus
Paracortina Wang & Zhang, 1993
Altum
=
Altum
Wang & Zhang, 1993: 381.
Relictus
=
Relictus
Wang & Zhang, 1993: 378.
Type species.
Paracortina leptoclada
Wang & Zhang, 1993.
Included species.
P. asciformis
Akkari & Stoev, sp. nov. - Lixian County, Sichuan, China.
P. carinata
(Wang & Zhang, 1993) - Shangrila County (=Zhong Dian/ Zhongdian County), Yunnan, China.
P. kabaki
Akkari & Stoev, sp. nov. - Shangrila County, Yunnan, China.
P. kyrang
Nguyen, Stoev, Nguyen & Vu, 2023 - Ky Rang Cave, Quoc Toan Commune, Quang Hoa District, Cao Bang, Vietnam.
P. leptoclada
Wang & Zhang, 1993 - Shangrila County, Yunnan, China.
P. multisegmentata
Stoev & Geoffroy, 2004 - Ngọc Lặc County, Thanh Hoa District, Vietnam.
P. serrata
(Wang & Zhang, 1993) - Deqin County, Yunnan, China.
P. stimula
(Wang & Zhang, 1993) - Shangrila County, Yunnan, China.
P. thallina
(Wang & Zhang, 1993) - Batang County, Sichuan, and Shangrila County, Yunnan, China.
P. viriosa
(Wang & Zhang, 1993) - Shangrila County, Yunnan, and Mang kang County/Markam? County, Tibet Autonomous Region, China.
P. voluta
Wang & Zhang, 1993 - Yajiang County and Yanyuan County (new record), Sichuan, China.
P. yinae
Liu & Tian, 2015 - Cave in Yanchang Village, Guangxi, China.
P. zhangi
Liu & Tian, 2015 - Cave Qiaoxia Dong, Guizhou, China.
Diagnosis.
The type genus of the family
Paracortinidae
, which differs from
Angulifemur
by having parallel stems of telopodites; from
Scotopetalum
by the presence of large anteromedian subfalcate coxal process, and from the genus
Crassipetalum
gen. nov. by the much smaller prefemoroidal process/es and a subfalcate coxal process
b
(never surpassing the telopodite).