The millipede genus Pandirodesmus Silvestri, 1932 in Trinidad and Tobago, Caribbean, with the description of P. jaggernauthi sp. nov. from Trinidad (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Chelodesmidae, Pandirodesmini)
Author
Vandenspiegel, Didier
Biological Collection and Data Management Unit, Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren, Belgium.
Author
Golovatch, Sergei I.
Institute for Problems of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninsky prospekt 33, Moscow, 119071 Russia.
Author
Rutherford, Mike G.
The Hunterian, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland.
text
Zootaxa
2022
2022-03-01
5104
4
567
576
journal article
20371
10.11646/zootaxa.5104.4.6
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1175-5326
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Key to species of
Pandirodesmus
1(2) Male unknown, adult female larger: length ca
13 mm
, width
2.1 mm
.
Guyana
.............................
P. disparipes
2(1) Adult males and females smaller: length up to
10 mm
. width up to
1.4 mm
.
Trinidad and Tobago
...................... 3
3(4) Gonopodal telopodite with a longer and more strongly curved primary branch (pb), a smaller prefemoral process (pfp) with fewer “folds”, and a longer and slimmer secondary branch (sb) (
Figs 4A, C, F
).
Trinidad
.....……………
P. jaggernauthi
sp. nov.
4(3) Gonopodal telopodite with a shorter and less strongly curved primary branch (pb), a larger prefemoral process (pfp) with more numerous “folds”, and a shorter and more stout secondary branch (sb) (
Figs 2A, B, C, E
).
Tobago
.......... …
P. rutherfordi