Review of the Southeast Asian millipede genus Antheromorpha Jeekel, 1968 (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Paradoxosomatidae)
Author
Likhitrakarn, Natdanai
Author
Golovatch, Sergei I.
Author
Panha, Somsak
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.571.7566
journal article
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.571.7566
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Taxon classification Animalia Polydesmida Paradoxosomatidae
Antheromorpha pardalis (Pocock, 1895)
Figs 3D, E, 21
Orthomorpha
pardalis
Pocock, 1895: 815 (D).
Orthomorpha pardalis
-
Attems 1898
: 327 (D);
1914
: 192 (D);
1930
: 132 (D);
1936
: 205 (M);
1937
: 94 (M).
" Orthomorpha " pardalis
-
Jeekel 1963
: 269 (M).
Antheromorpha pardalis
-
Jeekel 1968
: 57 (M);
Jeekel 1980
: 82 (D);
Nguyen and Sierwald 2013
: 1235 (M).
Remark.
This species was described and still remains known only from a single ♀, the holotype which comes from Palon in Pegu, Myanmar (
Pocock 1895
) and is kept in the Genova Museum, Italy (
Jeekel 1980
). The species is similar to
Antheromorpha miranda
(Pocock, 1895), but has a different colour pattern of the metaterga, the latter showing yellowish paramedian spots in front of the transverse sulcus (versus yellowish paramedian stripes), coupled with the sulcus starting with segment 2 (versus segment 5). Since the colour pattern is one of the most important taxonomic characters for species discrimination in the genus,
Antheromorpha pardalis
for the time being is regarded as a separate species. However, only the discovery of topotypical ♂ specimens can provide decisive information concerning the identity of this species (
Jeekel 1980
).