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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10.5852/ejt.2022.803.1691
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Genus
Xystopyge
Attems, 1909
Type
species
Xystopyge lineata
Attems, 1909 (
Tanzania
)
, by original designation.
Other included species
Twenty-two, including five species described as new here, see
VandenSpiegel & Pierrard (2009)
and
Frederiksen & Enghoff (2012)
.
Diagnosis
Differs from all other odontopygid genera, with the possible exception of
Lissopyge
, (see above) by the strongly developed gonopod sternum. Differs from
Lissopyge
by having solenomere and telomere of approximately same length, vs solenomere much longer than telomere in
Lissopyge
.
Remarks
In spite of two recent reviews (
VandenSpiegel & Pierrard 2009
;
Frederiksen & Enghoff 2012
) new species of
Xystopyge
constinue to be discovered. In addition to those described here, several others have already been collected but remain unnamed so far. The known distrbituion of the genus covers eastern
Kenya
and
Tanzania
.
See above concerning the differences between
Xystopyge
and
Lissopyge
, the only genera in subfamily
Lissopyginae
.