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
Parabolus
new genus
Type
species:
Trigoniulus dimorphus
Carl, 1909
.
Included species.
Parabolus dimorphus
(
Carl, 1909
)
,
n. comb.
,
Parabolus calceus
n. sp.
Etymology.
Name formed in analogy with many other names in the order
Spirobolida
, masculine.
Diagnosis.
A genus of East African Pachybolini characterized by
- coxal lobes on male legs 6 and 7
- one pair of ventral macrosetae on male legs from pair 5 onward
- a very long meso-distal process on anterior gonopod coxite
- a small laterobasal stout spine on terminal gonopod segment
- no moveable appendix, no striated membranous lamellae, no mesal process, no free solenomerite, no distal complex of parallel ridges on posterior gonopod
- no distinct overlapping lobes on anterior gonopod telopodites
- apical margin of winglike expansions of second female coxae angled
- an apical appendix on oral vulval valve