A review of the millipedes (Diplopoda) of Namibia, with identification keys and descriptions of two new genera and five new species
Author
Vohland, Katrin
Author
Hamer, Michelle
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African Invertebrates
2013
2013-06-30
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Namibostreptus kymatorhabdus
(Attems, 1914)
Figs 56, 57
Triaenostreptus kymatorhabdus
: Attems 1914
a
: 151–152
, figs 147–149; 1922: 98; 1928: 366; Schubart
1966: 116; Hoffman 1971: 218;
Krabbe 1982: 281
; Hamer 1998: 52.
Spirostreptus kymatorhabdus
: Hoffman 2008: 173
.
Namibostreptus kymatorhabdus
:
Mwabvu
et al.
2009: 50
, fig. 8. Diagnosis: Lateral lamella produces a broad, convex-shaped lateral lobe (wider than it is long and distal to median lamella apex), which extends beyond lateral edge of median lamella (
Fig. 57
,
dp
); a smaller more distal lateral, bluntly triangular process is present (
Fig. 57
,
trp
), and a folded apical process (
Fig. 57
). Median lamella apically undulate with median acute peak (
Fig. 56
). Gonopod femoral process strongly curved (
Fig. 57
). Main part of telopodite with single loop, distal to which it abruptly narrows; apically trifurcate (
Figs 56, 57
).
Figs 56, 57.
Namibostreptus kymatorhabdus
(Attems)
, ♂: (56) oral view of gonopod; (57) aboral view of gonopod. Abbreviations: (dp) digitiform process, (fp) femoral process, (ll) lateral lamella of gonocoxite, (ml) median lamella of gonocoxite, (s) solenomere, (ste) sternite, (trp) triangular process of lateral lamella. Scale bar = 1 mm.
Description:
Size
: Width of males
9–12 mm
, 62–74 segments; length
210 mm
.
Colour
: Prozonite yellow, metazonite chestnut brown. Legs and antennae dark chestnut brown.
Collum
: Anterior corner extended into a short, rounded lateral lobe, with 3–4 complete and 2 or more incomplete folds.
Gonopods
: As for diagnosis.
Material
examined:
NAMIBIA
:
1♂
Walvis Bay
[
22°56'S
14°30'E
],
Lübbert
(
ZMHB 2043
);
1♂
Windhoek [
22°34'12"S
17°05'01"E
], Lübbert (
ZMHB 5197
)
.
Distribution: Only known from the
Walvis Bay
and Windhoek regions (
Mwabvu
et al.
2009
) (
Fig. 37
).