The pill millipedes of Vietnam: a key to genera and descriptions of five new species (Diplopoda: Glomerida: Glomeridae)
Author
Nguyen, Anh D.
Author
Sierwald, Petra
Author
Marek, Paul E.
text
Raffles Bulletin of Zoology
2019
2019-04-16
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journal article
10.26107/RBZ-2019-0020
2345-7600
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Rhopalomeris variegata
Golovatch & Semenyuk, 2016
Rhopalomeris variegata
Golovatch & Semenyuk, 2016
. Russian Entomological Journal 25(4): 411, figs. 1–7; HT male (ZMUM p3485), PT
3 females
(ZMUM p3486) from
Gia Lai Province
,
Highlands
of
Vietnam
.
Rhopalomeris variegata
: –
Golovatch, 2017
. Russian Entomological Journal 26(2): 200, figs. 19–33;
2 males
,
4 females
(
ZMUM
),
Kon Tum Province
,
Kon Plong District
, tropical rain forest
.
Vietnamese glomerid species are assigned to five genera:
Annameris
,
Hyleoglomeris
,
Hyperglomeris
,
Peplomeris
, and
Rhopalomeris
. While currently close to 100 species of
Hyleoglomeris
range from the Balkans to
Indonesia
, members of the genera
Annameris
(2 species),
Hyperglomeris
(7 species), and
Peplomeris
(2 species) are known only from
Vietnam
. The three species in the genus
Rhopalomeris
range from
Malaysia
to northern
Vietnam
. Three Vietnamese glomerid species are known from females only:
R. tonkinensis
,
A. robusta
, and
H. triangulifera
. Eight species described in the last century (by Verhoeff, Attems, and Silvestri) are known from their
type
specimen only, and have never been re-collected. Species distributions for these glomerids are unexplored. For the 12 more recently described species, only
Peplomeris magna
has been recollected twice (see below) in the same geographic region as the original
type
material. Thus, the current distribution patterns are strongly biased and reflect the limited collecting effort. Due to the lack of specimens for most Vietnamese glomerid species, morphological intra-specific variability cannot be ascertained. Furthermore, the
type
specimens of the species described by Silvestri, Verhoeff, and Attems have never been examined during more recent work on the group, allowing at most tentative synonymy suggestions (for
H. electa
and
H. maior
). Providing a basis for future research with comparative material, numerous illustrations of somatic characters, as well as telopods and vulval features are given here for
P. magna
, and
Hyleoglomeris lobus
,
new species
.