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
Pachybolus tectus
Cook, 1897
Figs 58–65
,
84
Material examined:
none, and none is known to exist.
Cook (1899)
gave the
type
repository as “Hamburg Museum” from where the specimen, however, is missing (
Weidner 1960
). All we have therefore is Cook’s original description and illustrations (reproduced here as
Figs 58–65
). According to Cook, the
P. tectus
male is ca.
150 mm
long, ca.
15 mm
in diameter and has 55 ‘segments’ (which presumably means a body ring formula 54+0+T). The anterior gonopods (
Figs 61–63
) have a tall sternal projection, the coxites seem to be smoothly rounded, the telopodites overlap but have no distinct mesal process; distally they are narrowed and form a rounded process somewhat similar to that seen in
Hyperbolus
species. The posterior gonopod (
Figs 64–65
) seems to have a basal laminate process and is otherwise quite slender, without distinct processes, lamellae etc. The female is unknown.
Distribution.
Only known from
Zanzibar
(
Fig. 84
)