Review of the millipede family Opisotretidae (Diplopoda, Polydesmida), with descriptions of new species
Author
Golovatch, Sergei I.
Author
Geoffroy, Jean-Jacques
Author
Stoev, Pavel
Author
Spiegel, Didier Vanden
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ZooKeys
2013
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.302.5357
journal article
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.302.5357
1313-2970-302-13
Genus
Corypholophus Attems, 1938
Corypholophus
Attems, 1938: 249.
Corypholophus
-
Attems 1940
: 190;
Murakami 1975
: 108;
Hoffman 1980
: 176, 188; 1982: 722;
Golovatch 1987
: 205;
Simonsen 1990
: 53.
Diagnosis.
A genus of
Opisotretidae
with 19 (♂) or 20 (♀) body segments. ♂ vertex with or without modifications. Metaterga with 2 or 3 regular, transverse rows of bacilliform setae. Frontolateral margin of midbody paraterga devoid of shoulders. Ozopore lying close to caudal margin of
paratergite's
caudolateral corner.
Gonopod telopodite slender, unipartite, slightly hollow on caudal face only distally; basal frontoventral process (p) either present or absent; distal part devoid of ornamentations (spines, bacilli or setae), lobes or prominent processes, at most microdenticulate near both a small accessory seminal chamber and a hairy pulvillus (Figs 2B, 3).
Type
species:
Corypholophus minutus
Attems, 1938, by original designation.
Remarks. This genus also includes
Corypholophus ryukyuensis
from the Ryukyus, Japan (and Taiwan?). The differences between these two species are depicted in Fig. 2B and Fig. 3.