Review of Dragon Millipedes (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Paradoxosomatidae) in the Fauna of Vietnam, with Descriptions of Three New Species
Author
Nguyen, Anh D.
Author
Nguyen, Manh-Ha
Author
Nguyen, Thu-Anh T.
Author
Phung, Hong-Luong T.
text
Zoological Studies
2019
2019-07-12
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journal article
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Hylomus specialis
(
Nguyen, Golovatch &
Anichkin, 2005)
(
Figs. 1
,
14
)
Desmoxytes specialis
Nguyen, Golovatch & Anichkin, 2005: 254−255
, figs. 14−19.
Hylomus specialis
:
Srisonchai et al. 2018a: 11
.
Material examined
:
1 male
(IEBR-29)
Kon Tum Province
, Ngoc Linh Mt., primary forest,
2,000 m
,
25 March 2004
, coll. Anh D. Nguyen;
1 male
(IEBR-41) same locality, secondary forest,
1,800 m
,
11 April 2004
, coll. Anh D. Nguyen;
2 males
,
1 female
(IEBR-67) same locality, primary forest,
1,700
−1,900
m
,
21 March − 9 April 2006
, coll. Anh D. Nguyen.
Diagnosis
: The species can be distinguished from its congeners by its darkish brown colouration; antenna being long; metaterga having two transverse rows of spines; paraterga being spine-shaped, long and increasingly pointed, with two additional spines at base caudolaterally; gonopod solenophore and solenomere being very long; spine z modest; femorite slightly curved (
Fig. 14
).
Previous records
:
Kon Tum Province
(Ngoc Linh Mt.) (
Nguyen et al. 2005
).
Distribution
: Only known from the Highland of
Vietnam
.