The millipede genus Anaulaciulus Pocock, 1895 in Taiwan, with descriptions of four new species (Diplopoda, Julida, Julidae)
Author
Mikhaljova, Elena V.
Author
Golovatch, Sergei I.
Author
Chang, Hsueh-Wen
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Zootaxa
2011
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journal article
45885
10.5281/zenodo.205694
fd0cd047-d39f-4ee1-9b28-d92386c1c437
1175-5326
205694
Anaulaciulus trilobus
(
Wang, 1963
)
Fusiulus trilolius
(sic!)
quemoyensis
Wang, 1963
: 91
–92, 91: figs 1–2.
Fusiulus trilobus quemoyensis
—
Korsós 1994
: 181
.
Anaulaciulus trilobus quemoyensis
—
Enghoff 1986
: 124
.
Anaulaciulus trilobus
—
Enghoff 1986
: 124
;
Korsós 1994
: 181
; 1996: 39; 2004: 15.
Remarks.
Wang (1963)
described this species as two subspecies:
Fusiulus trilolius quemoyensis
, from "Quemoy (Kin-Men)
Island
, Fukien Province" [Kingman Island, Fu-chien Province], an islet lying ca.
160 km
west of
Taiwan
, and
F. trilobus khuuae
, from "Yan Min Shan and Yin Ko", near Taipei,
Taiwan
. Neither has since been revised. Even though their original descriptions and accompanying illustrations were very far from adequate,
Enghoff (1986)
, without a study of
type
material, elevated
quemoyensis
to a full species, noting that “A nominate subspecies of
trilobus
has never been described, and
quemoyensis
must be sunk in synonymy of
trilobus
s.s.
”
Korsós (1994)
, likewise without a restudy of pertinent material, synonymized
khuuae
with
A. tonginus
.
We include this dubious species in our key below, based only on the original sketches of the gonopods. Since these sketches are far too schematic to unequivocally interpret, the incorporation of
A. trilobus
in the key must be understood as being highly provisional, pending a revision of topotype material. The same actually concerns the following species
A. trapezoidus
as well, whereas the record of
A. simplex
from an unknown locality in
Taiwan
is likely to represent still another of the numerous taxonomic and faunistic errors in Wang’s diplopodological heritage. We consider these two latter taxa in our key only for the sake of completeness.