Some new or poorly-known Zephroniidae (Diplopoda, Sphaerotheriida) from Vietnam
Author
Semenyuk, Irina
A. N. Severtsov Institute for Problems of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninsky pr. 33, Moscow 119071, Russia & Joint Russian-Vietnamese Tropical Center, Street 3 Thang 2, 3, Q 10, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Author
Golovatch, Sergei I.
A. N. Severtsov Institute for Problems of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninsky pr. 33, Moscow 119071, Russia
Author
Wesener, Thomas
Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig (ZFMK), Leibniz Institute for Animal Biodiversity, Adenauerallee 160, D- 53113, Bonn, Germany
twesener@uni-bonn.de
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.930.47742
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.930.47742
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Sphaeropoeus manca (Attems, 1936)
comb. nov.
Zephronia manca
Attems, 1936: 169;
Sundara 1970
: 127 (list);
Golovatch 1983
(list);
Enghoff et al. 2004
: 32 (list);
Jeekel 2001
: 20 (list);
Wesener 2016b
: 33 (list).
Syntypes.
♂ and ♀, NHMW 2239 (not examined).
Distribution.
Vietnam:
D'Ran
, Lam Dong Prov., near Dalat; Peak Lang Biang, Lam Dong Prov., S. Annam. India: Dhobie Jhora, Kurseong, eastern Himalayas (
Attems 1936
).
Figure 6.
Sphaerobelum pumatense
sp. nov., ♂ holotype (
A-G
) and ♀ paratype (
H
).
A, B
Left posterior telopod, anterior and posterior views, respectively
C-E
left anterior telopod, anterior, lateral and posterior views, respectively
F
left leg 9, anterior view
G
left antenna
H
left coxa and prefemur 2 with vulva, posterior view. Scale bars: 1.0 mm,
D
drawn not to scale.
Remarks.
The drawings of the telopods, as well as the extremely enlarged operculum of the ♀ vulva as depicted in the original description (
Attems 1936
) clearly show this species to be a member of the genus
Sphaeropoeus
, related to the other species mentioned below. Only a full revision of the type series, which contains syntypes from several localities in Vietnam and India, may clarify whether several species are actually hidden under the name
S. manca
. The posterior telopods and other characters are clearly different in
S. manca
compared to the two other species, as well as to
Sphaeropoeus maculatus
(Verhoeff, 1924) which is redescribed below.