Three new species of penicillate millipedes from the Con Dao Islands of southeast Vietnam (Diplopoda, Lophoproctidae and Polyxenidae)
Author
Huynh, Cuong
text
Zootaxa
2020
2020-04-01
4759
1
1
30
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.4759.1.1
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1175-5326
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Genus
Unixenus
Jones, 1944
Type
species:
Unixenus padmanabhai
(
Jones, 1937
)
Monoxenus
Jones, 1937: 138
;
Silvestri 1948: 216
.
Unixenus
Jones, 1944: 94
;
Nguyen Duy-Jacquemin and Condé 1967: 68
.
Other taxa included:
In
Unixenus
, there are twelve previously described species including the
type
specimen
Unixenus padmanabhai
Jones, 1937
, from
India
;
Unixenus broelemanni
Condé and Jacquemin, 1962
, from
Madagascar
;
Unixenus vuillaumei
Condé and Terver, 1963
, from the
Ivory Coast
, and eight Australian species including:
Unixenus mjoebergi
Verhoeff, 1924
;
Unixenus attemsi
Nguyen Duy-Jacquemin and Condé, 1967
;
Unixenus corticolus
Short and Huynh, 2011
;
Unixenus karajinensis
Short and Huynh, 2011
;
Unixenus barrabaensis
Short and Huynh, 2013
;
Unixenus carnarvonensis
Short and Huynh, 2013
;
Unixenus corringlensis
Short and Huynh, 2013
and
Unixenus myallensis
Short and Huynh, 2013
and most recently
Unixenus intragramineus
Huynh and Veenstra, 2018c
.
Genus diagnosis
: Each eye with eight ommatidia. Body with 10 tergites, 9 pleural projections; 13 pairs of legs. 8 antennomeres: VI longest and VIII shortest with 4 sensory cones. Antennomere VI with a setiform sensillum between two thick bacilliform sensilla, a conical sensillum located in posterior position. Labrum surface with spherical papillae gradually reducing in size toward posterior margin. Gnathochilarium lateral palp 1.5–2.5 times longer than medial palp. 20–22 sensilla on medial palp and 13 on lateral palp. Two or more tergal trichomes rows in two latero-posterior clusters either side midline, with central gap. Anterior row often uneven, intermediate rows rarely in defined rows and posterior row of trichome sockets continuous or with a medial gap. Tarsus 2 with setiform seta.