East African giant millipedes of the tribe Pachybolini (Diplopoda, Spirobolida, Pachybolidae)
Author
Enghoff, Henrik
text
Zootaxa
2011
2753
1
41
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.276689
b6781430-d288-4cb4-b178-db6192a61dde
1175-5326
276689
Hyperbolus
new genus
Type
species:
Hyperbolus apicomplexus
n. sp.
Inlcluded species.
Hyperbolus apicomplexus
n. sp.
,
Hyperbolus morogoroensis
(
Kraus, 1958
)
,
n. comb
..
Etymology.
Name formed in analogy with many other names in the order
Spirobolida
, masculine.
Diagnosis.
A genus of East African Pachybolini characterized by
- coxal lobes on male legs 6 and 7
- one pair of ventral macrosetae on male legs from pair 5 onward - a distal complex of parallel ridges on posterior gonopod
- a free solenomerite on posterior gonopod
- distinct overlapping mesal lobes on anterior gonopod telopodites - no moveable appendix, no striated membranous lamellae, no mesal process on posterior gonopod - no long meso-distal process on anterior gonopod coxite
- apical margin of winglike expansions of second female coxae angled - an apical appendix on oral vulval valve