Review of the Spirobolida on Madagascar, with descriptions of twelve new genera, including three genera of ' fire millipedes' (Diplopoda)
Author
Wesener, Thomas
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Field Museum of Natural History, 1400 S. Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, IL 60605, U. S. A. & Zoologisches Forschungsmuseum Alexander Koenig, Museumsmeile Bonn, Adenauerallee 160, D- 53113 Bonn, Germany. & B 54 D 3623309
Author
Enghoff, Henrik
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Natural History Museum of Denmark, Universitetsparken 15, DK- 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
Author
Sierwald, Petra
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Field Museum of Natural History, 1400 S. Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, IL 60605, U. S. A.
text
ZooKeys
2009
2009-09-04
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journal article
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Hylekobolus anjanaharibe
Wesener
,
sp. n.
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8C8A83C0-DF66-4BAB-84A6-4EAC4B12050F
Material
examined:
1 ♂
,
1 ♀
Holotype
:
1 ♂
(
52 mm
long), BLF CAS 8152,
Madagascar
,
Province
Toamasina
,
Montagne d’Anjanaharibe
,
19.5 km
27° NNE Ambinanitelo
, montane rainforest,
1100 m
,
15°10’42” S
,
049°38’06” E
, leg.
Fisher
,
Griswold
et al.,
12–16.III.2003
Paratype
:
1 ♀
, BLF CAS 8152, same data as holotype
.
Differential
diagnosis:
the posterior gonopods of
H. anjanaharibe
sp. n.
are very wide, unique for
Hylekobolus
. The apical membranous area (
y
) is greatly enlarged, forming two large lobes (
Fig. 66B
).
Description
.
Measurements
: male with 50 rings, circa
52 mm
long,
3.8 mm
wide. Female (with eggs) with 50 rings,
54 mm
long,
4.2 mm
wide.
Coloration:
faded in alcohol. Central part of collum, anterior parts of rings, head and anal valves dark green, appendages, posterior margin of rings and preanal process light brown.
Eyes
with 32–34 ocelli.
Figure 66.
Hylekobolus anjanaharibe
sp. n.
, male holotype.
A
anterior gonopod, anterior view
B
right posterior gonopod, anterior view
C
anterior gonopod, posterior view
D
right posterior gonopod, posterior view. Apo = apodeme; Cx = coxite; St = sternite; T = telopodite. Not to same scale.
Anterior gonopod
sternite wide, with a well-rounded tip (
Fig. 66A
). Mesal coxite process slender and elongated (
Fig. 66A
). Apical process of telopodite large and wellrounded. Retrorse margin wide, slightly projecting above telopodite (
Fig. 66C
); margin basally of process not projecting (
Fig. 66C
).
Posterior gonopods
telopodite always straight (
Fig. 66D
). telopodite of posterior gonopod only 1.5 times longer than wide (
Fig. 66B
). Projection absent from lateral margin (
w
,
Fig. 66B
), but area and tip completely covered by a whitish membranous area. Apical process (
x
) absent (
Fig. 66B
). Membranous lobe (
y
) bilobed, very large, covering whole tip (
Fig. 66B
). Projection of sperm canal (
z
) long and slender (
Fig. 66D
).
Distribution
and ecology
:
H. anjanaharibe
sp. n.
is currently only known from Anjanaharibe, a mountain in north
Madagascar
(
Fig. 54
).
Etymology
:
anjanaharibe
, noun in apposition, refers to the
type
locality, Anjanaharibe.