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
20167
10.5852/ejt.2022.803.1691
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Genus
Praludivera
gen. nov.
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Type
species
Praludivera paralellamella
gen. et sp. nov.
Other included species
None.
Diagnosis
Differs from other genera of
Prionopetalini
by the combination of the mesal margin of the proplica running all the way to the coxal tip which is forming a distal opening, a simple, distally striate solenomere slightly shorter than the telomere, and a telomere with a set of parallel lamellae on the internal surface.
Etymology
The genus name (gender feminine) is an anagram of
Raduliverpa
Frederiksen & Enghoff, 2015
and refers to the similarities with this genus, especially in characters of the solenomere tip.
Remarks
This genus is not very well characterized vis-à-vis several other genera including
Raduliverpa
and
Rhamphidarpoides
Kraus, 1960
, although the two characters here taken to be diagnostic of
Praludivera
gen. nov.
, viz, the extended proplica, the distally open coxa and the telomeral lamellae, are indeed exceptional. In the key to genera of “
Odontopyginae
” of
Kraus (1966)
,
P. paralellamella
gen. et sp. nov.
runs to the last couplet where it fits with neither alternative, viz
Patinatius
Attems, 1928
, and
Odontopyge
sensu Kraus
(see
Enghoff 2016a
concerning the latter genus).