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
text
African Invertebrates
2013
2013-06-30
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Chaleponcus niger
Attems, 1914
Figs 83, 84
Chaleponcus niger
: Attems 1914
a
: 203–204
, figs 266–271; 1928: 410; Kraus 1960: 27; Schubart 1966:
126; Hamer 1998: 58.
Diagnosis: Lateral lamella more strongly sclerotised than other parts of the telocoxite, ending in spiniform processes (
Fig. 83
).
Description:
Size
: Width of male 4.8–5.2 mm; 62–64 body segments.
Figs 83, 84.
Chaleponcus niger
Attems
, ♂: (83) gonopod, aboral view; (84) midbody leg. Abbreviations: (cx) coxa, (f) femur, (fp) femoral process, (prf) prefemur, (ptf) postfemur, (s) solenomere, (ta) tarsus, (ti) tibia. Scale bar = 1 mm.
Colour
: Black, legs and antennae yellow-brown.
Head
: Epicranial suture and interocular suture fine. 6 supralabral pits. Antenna slender, reaching hind border of 4
th
segment.
Gonopod
: Telocoxite with distal lamella, medial lamella and aborally directed lateral lamella with small teeth and a larger, arched hook (
Fig. 83
,
ll
).
Material
examined:
NAMIBIA
:
1♂
Oshikoto region
,
Tsumeb
[
19°14'53"S
17°42'38"E
,
1323 m
] (
ZMHB 5233
)
;
1♂
Otjozondjupa region
,
Waterberg
[
20°20'55"S
17°19'42"E
,
1670 m
],
xi.1972
,
H.C. Strauss
(
SMN 21738
) (
NMNW
)
.
Distribution:
Namibia
. From Windhoek north to
Omaheke
and the
Oshikoto region
.