Mountains of millipedes. The family Odontopygidae in the Eastern Arc Mountains of Tanzania (Diplopoda, Spirostreptida)
Author
Enghoff, Henrik
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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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10.5852/ejt.2022.803.1691
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Genus
Aquattuor
Frederiksen, 2013
Type
species
Aquattuor denticulatus
Frederiksen, 2013 (
Tanzania
)
, by original designation.
Other included species
Nine (
Enghoff 2020
).
Diagnosis
Differs from all other genera of
Odontopygidae
by the large, rectangular, detachable limbus flaps (
Frederiksen 2013b
;
Enghoff & Frederiksen 2015
;
Enghoff 2020
).
Remarks
Eight of the ten species in the genus are Eastern Arc endemics.
Aquattuor fasciatus
(
Attems, 1896
)
and
A. claudiahempae
Enghoff & Frederiksen, 2015
have been found at various Tanzanian localities outside the Eastern Arc, and may by synonymous (
Enghoff 2020
).
In the diagnosis of
A. fasciatus
Enghoff (2020)
stated: “Shares a short (as broad as long, or slightly longer) gonopodal palette with
A. claudiahempae
,
A. fasciatus
,
A. stereosathe
,
A. submajor
and
A. udzungwensis
.
” This, of course makes no sense – it should have been “Shares a short (as broad as long, or slightly longer) gonopodal palette with
A. claudiahempae
,
A. denticulatus
,
A. stereosathe
,
A. submajor
and
A. udzungwensis
.
” I am grateful to Carlos Martínez for having spotted this.