Mountains of millipedes. The family Odontopygidae in the Eastern Arc Mountains of Tanzania (Diplopoda, Spirostreptida)
Author
Enghoff, Henrik
FB09A817-000D-43C3-BCC4-2BC1E5373635
Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Universitetsparken 15, DK- 2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark.
henghoff@snm.ku.dk
text
European Journal of Taxonomy
2022
2022-03-14
803
1
136
http://dx.doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2022.803.1691
journal article
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Genus
Uncodrama
gen. nov.
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Type
species
Uncodrama coronata
gen. et sp. nov.
Other provisionally included species
Uncodrama medjensis
(
Chamberlin, 1927
)
comb. nov.
ex
Hapthysanus
Attems, 1909.
Congo
.
Uncodrama tumidens
(Karsch, 1881)
comb. nov.
ex.
Spirostreptus
(
Odontopyge
). S.
Sudan
.
Diagnosis
Differs from other genera of
Prionopetalini
by the combination of a subrectangular distal lobe on the proplica, a wide mesal opening between pro- and metaplica (gonocoel), a simple whiplike solenomere and a simple, ‘twisted boat’-shaped telomere with a distal, complicated antlerlike lobe.
Etymology
The genus name (gender feminine) is an anagram of
Damacornu
Enghoff, 2018, another genus with an antlerlike structure on the gonopod telopodite.
Remarks
In Kraus’ (1966) key to genera of “
Odontopyginae
”,
Uncodrama coronata
gen. et sp. nov.
runs all the way through to
Odontopyge
, a name which was mis-applied until
Hoffman (1991)
clarified the situation.
Enghoff (2016a)
further addressed the “
Odontopyge
problem”. Of the “orphaned” nominal
Odontopyge
species
listed by
Enghoff (2016a)
, one may provisionally be re-allocated to
Uncodrama
gen. nov.
, viz,
O. medjensis
(
Chamberlin, 1927
)
, judged from the original description (
Chamberlin 1927
, as
Haplothysanus
m.
) and the re-description by
Kraus (1960)
. The same applies, with even more reservation, to
O. tumidens
(Karsch, 1881)
, based on the re-description by
Attems (1914)
.