Two remarkable new species of Penicillata (Diplopoda, Polyxenida) from Table Mountain National Park (Cape Town, South Africa)
Author
Duy-Jacquemin, Monique Nguyen
Author
Uys, Charmaine
Author
Geoffroy, Jean-Jacques
text
ZooKeys
2011
156
85
103
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.156.2211
journal article
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.156.2211
1313-2970-156-85
Genus
Propolyxenus Silvestri, 1948
Propolyxenus
Silvestri, 1948
Propolyxenus
Silvestri, 1948: Nguyen
Duy-Jacquemin
and Geoffroy 2003: 100.
Propolyxenus
Silvestri, 1948:
Short and Huynh 2010
: 13.
Remarks.
The genus is typical of the subfamily
Polyxeninae
, due to the structure of the telson, but shows more than 2 transverse rows of barbate trichomes on each tergite.