A review of the millipedes (Diplopoda) of Namibia, with identification keys and descriptions of two new genera and five new species
Author
Vohland, Katrin
Author
Hamer, Michelle
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African Invertebrates
2013
2013-06-30
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Chaleponcus hereronius
(Attems, 1922)
Odontopyge hereronia
: Attems 1922: 101–103
, figs 2a–d; 1928: 391.
Chaleponcus hereronius
: Kraus 1960: 25
; Schubart 1966: 123; Hamer 1998: 58.
Diagnosis: Gonopod telocoxite broadly widened, with apical region folded as a “lappet” (Attems 1928), which forms a median triangular process apically.A low triangular process on lateral margin of telocoxite.
Description:
Size
: Width 4.2–4.5 mm; 60 segments.
Colour
: In life black, antenna yellow-brown, darkening distally, legs yellow-brown.
Head
: 5 or 6 supralabral pits, epicranial and interocular suture distinct.
Collum
: Only very slightly anteriorly projected and with 1–2 complete folds.
Paraprocts
: With distinct dorsal spines.
Legs
: All legs with pads.
Gonopods
: As in diagnosis.
Material
examined:
NAMIBIA
:
1♂
1♀
Usakos
[
22°00'11"S
15°34'59"E
,
866 m
], 1911, Michaelsen (
NHMW 2622
)
.
Distribution: The species is only known from the
type
locality, Usakos, which is close to Swakopmund in the
Erongo region
(
Fig. 75
).
Remark: Unfortunately, the gonopods were prepared in a manner that makes it impossible to redraw them to show the diagnostic characters.