A revision of the Thyropygus allevatus group. Part 1: the T. opinatus subgroup (Diplopoda: Spirostreptida: Harpagophoridae)
Author
Pimvichai, Piyatida
Author
Enghoff, Henrik
Author
Panha, Somsak
text
Zootaxa
2009
2016
17
50
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.185971
1db39382-b4f0-46fa-ae08-dd5e57e0e26b
1175-5326
185971
Thyropygus loxia
n. sp.
(
Figs. 17
A–D, 19D)
Material:
HOLOTYPE
male
THAILAND
, Suratthani Province, Thachana district, Tam-Yai Temple, 9° 33ˏ 31˝ N, 99° 10ˏ 26˝ E.
11 October 2008
. H. Enghoff, S. Panha, P. Pimvichai and members of Animal Systematics Research Unit leg., (
CUMZ
). –
Paratypes
:
1 female
and 2 sub-adult males, same data as
holotype
(
CUMZ
).
Etymology:
The name refers to the overlapping lateral processes of the gonopod anterior coxal folds, reminiscent of the bill in the bird genus
Loxia
(crossbills).
Diagnosis:
A species of the
opinatus
subgroup. Spatulate lobe (
sl
) at the apical part of telopodite rounded, spoon-like. Similar in this respect to
T. inflexus
,
T. bearti
,
T. chelatus
,
T. cristagalli
and
T. brachyacanthus
. Differs from all other species of the
T. opinatus
subgroup by having a longitudinal lateral crest (
Fig 17
C, arrow) on the anterior coxal fold (
ac
); by having the tip of the lateral process of anterior coxal fold (
alp
) crossing over with opposite tip, and by having the median process of posterior coxal fold (
amp
) very small.
Description:
Adult male with 69 podous rings, no apodous rings. Length ca.
10 cm
, width ca.
5.5 mm
. Adult female with 58 podous rings, no apodous rings. Length ca.
9 cm
, width ca.
6.3 mm
. Overall color of living animal (
Fig. 19
D) brown. Antennae and legs brownish orange.
Gonopods (
Figs. 17
A–E): Anterior coxal fold (
ac
) (
Figs. 17
A, C) with a lateral longitudinal crest (
Fig. 17
C, arrow); lateral process (
alp
) slender, regularly curved, tip crossing over with tip of opposite side, the two together forming a circle; mesal process (
amp
) very small, hump-like. Posterior coxal fold (
pc
) (
Fig. 17
B) basally with moderately high lateral paracoxites (
px
), distally with two processes: mesal process (
pmp
) curving caudad; lateral process (
plp
) digitiform, directed distad. Telopodite (
Figs. 16
D–E) leaving coxite between
pmp
and
plp
; femoral spine (
fe
) very long, curved,
in situ
resting curving close to
pmp
; telopodite distally to
fe
with a small round lobe (
lo
) projecting distolaterad; tibial spine (
ti
) very long, curving in horizontal plane under
fe
,
in situ
resting close to mesal part of
fe
; spatulate lobe (
sl
) basally slender, distally broadly expanded, rounded, spoon-like; palette (
pa
) simple, gutter-like, distally with about eight brownish blepharochaetae (
bp
).
Distribution
(
Fig. 20
): Known only from the
type
locality.