Review of Dragon Millipedes (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Paradoxosomatidae) in the Fauna of Vietnam, with Descriptions of Three New Species
Author
Nguyen, Anh D.
Author
Nguyen, Manh-Ha
Author
Nguyen, Thu-Anh T.
Author
Phung, Hong-Luong T.
text
Zoological Studies
2019
2019-07-12
58
14
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31
journal article
56108
10.6620/ZS.2019.58-14
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PMC6759935
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Genus
Hylomus
Cook & Loomis, 1924
Hylomus
Cook & Loomis, 1924: 105
;
Attems 1937: 126
;
Jeekel 1968: 51
;
Jeekel 1980: 655
;
Srisonchai et al. 2018a: 15
. Synonymized with
Desmoxytes
by
Golovatch & Enghoff (1994: 46)
, but re-validated by
Srisonchai et al. (2018a)
.
© 2019 Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Type
species
:
Hylomus draco
Cook & Loomis, 1924
, by original designation.
Diagnosis
: The genus can be recognised by a combination of characters: small to large size (
12−35 mm
long); often brightly coloured; paraterga strongly to exceedingly well developed, wing-, spine- and antler-shaped; metazonal surface often more or less roughly granulate, rarely smooth; epiproct of telson sometimes modified with hypertrophied setiferous tubercles near tip; male leg femora 5/6/7/9 often inflated or humped ventrally; gonopod suberect, seldom subfalcate; solenophore and solenomere usually shortened.
Remarks
: The genus is widely distributed in southern
China
and
Vietnam
. Few species are found in
Laos
and
Thailand
. The distribution of the genus
Hylomus
in
Vietnam
is shown in figure 1.