The pill millipedes of Vietnam: a key to genera and descriptions of five new species (Diplopoda: Glomerida: Glomeridae)
Author
Nguyen, Anh D.
Author
Sierwald, Petra
Author
Marek, Paul E.
text
Raffles Bulletin of Zoology
2019
2019-04-16
67
260
297
journal article
10.26107/RBZ-2019-0020
2345-7600
4575924
C1D8A501-317A-4803-AEF8-EA16DFBFF3B2
Genus
Rhopalomeris
Verhoeff, 1906
Type
species.
Rhopalomeris carnifex
(
Pocock, 1889
)
by subsequent designation.
Remarks.
The genus
Rhopalomeris
is strictly known from the mainland of southeast Asia (
Vietnam
,
Thailand
,
Malaysia
) with four described species (
Golovatch & Semenyuk, 2016
). Two have been recorded from
Vietnam
:
R. tonkinensis
Silvestri, 1917
from
Lang Son Province
, northern
Vietnam
and
R. variegata
Golovatch & Semenyuk, 2016
from
Gia Lai Province
in the Highlands of
Vietnam
. The other two species are known from
Thailand
,
Malaysia
(
R. monacha
Silvestri, 1917
) and
Myanmar
(
R. carnifex
Pocock, 1889
). The genus is characterised by antenna having numerous apical sensory cones, antennomere 6 unusually large, trichosteles present in both the prefemur and femur of telopods. An identification key to
Rhopalomeris
species was recently provided by
Golovatch & Semenyuk (2016)
.