A revision of the Thyropygus allevatus group. Part 1: the T. opinatus subgroup (Diplopoda: Spirostreptida: Harpagophoridae)
Author
Pimvichai, Piyatida
Author
Enghoff, Henrik
Author
Panha, Somsak
text
Zootaxa
2009
2016
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journal article
10.5281/zenodo.185971
1db39382-b4f0-46fa-ae08-dd5e57e0e26b
1175-5326
185971
Thyropygus inflexus
(
Demange, 1989
)
,
n. comb.
(
Figs. 9
A–E)
Cornugonus inflexus
Demange, 1989
: 780
Material:
HOLOTYPE
male
THAILAND
, Kanchanaburi Province, Sai Yok district, 14° 6ˏ 56˝ N, 99° 8ˏ40˝ E.
16 June 1986
. L. Deharveng leg., (
MNHN
).
FIGURE 9.
Thyropygus inflexus
,
holotype, gonopods. A: anterior view, left telopodite removed. B: posterior view, left telopodite removed. C: lateral view. D: left telopodite, anterior view. E: left telopodite, posterior view.
Diagnosis:
A species of the
opinatus
subgroup. Spatulate lobe (
sl
) at the apical part of telopodite expanded, smooth and without a spine. Similar in this respect to
T. bearti
,
T. chelatus
,
T. cristagalli
,
T. brachyacanthus
,
T. loxia
and
T. bispinus
. Differs from the first five of these species by the mesal process of the anterior coxal fold (
amp
) being longer than the lateral process of anterior coxal fold (
alp
). Particularly similar to
T. bispinus
, differing from it by
alp
apically with a crest extending caudad and ending in a small spine (
Fig. 9
C, arrow),
amp
apically irregularly tuberculate, the absence of telopodite lobe (
lo
), and having a small spine (
ss
) at base of apical part, opposite the origin of tibial spine.
Description:
Adult male with 69 podous rings, no apodous rings. Length ca.
13 cm
(broken), width ca. 7.0 mm. Color in life unknown; preserved specimen with prozona, epiproct, and paraprocts whitish-brown, Head, antennae, legs, metazona, tip of epiproct, margins of paraprocts, and hypoproct brown.
Gonopods (
Figs. 9
A–E): Anterior coxal fold (
ac
) (
Fig. 9
A): lateral process (
alp
) long, slender, regularly curved, in anterior view sickle-shaped, apically with a crest extending caudad and ending in a small spine (
Fig. 9
C, arrow); mesal process (
amp
) slightly longer than lateral process (
alp
), protruding from middle of mesal margin of
ac
, apically irregularly tuberculate. Posterior coxal fold (
pc
) (
Fig. 9
B) basally with moderately high lateral paracoxites (
px
); mesal process (
pmp
) slender, directed distolaterad; lateral process (
plp
) damaged on both sides of unique specimen. Telopodite (
Figs. 9
D–E): Femoral spine (
fe
) flattened, short, lying close to top of telopodite; tibial spine (
ti
) very long, curving in horizontal plane; spatulate lobe (
sl
) basally slender, distally broadly expanded, with inner lateral margin arched; a small accessory lobe (
al
) at base of
sl
; and a small slender spine (
ss
) at base of apical part, opposite the origin of the tibial spine; palette (
pa
) simple, gutter-like, distally with about seven brownish blepharochaetae (
bp
).
Distribution
(
Fig. 20
): Described from
THAILAND
, Kanchanaburi [Kanchanabrui], without an exact locality (
Demange, 1989
). The more precise locality of the
holotype
, which is the only known specimen, is Kanchanaburi Province, Sai Yok district (L. Deharveng, personal communication).