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<mods:title>First record of the genus Touranella Attems, 1937 (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Paradoxosomatidae) from Laos, with a description of a new species</mods:title>
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<mods:namePart>Nguyen, Anh D.</mods:namePart>
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<mods:affiliation>Institute of Ecology and Biological Resources, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, 18, Hoangquocviet Road, Caugiay District, Hanoi, Vietnam &amp; Graduate University of Science and Technology, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, 18, Hoangquocviet Road, Caugiay District, Hanoi, Vietnam</mods:affiliation>
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<mods:namePart>Sierwald, Petra</mods:namePart>
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<mods:namePart>Ware, Stephanie</mods:namePart>
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<taxonomicName LSID="https://zoobank.org/09F5D34D-0F66-44F5-A53B-CE90DB8B0244" authority="Nguyen &amp; Sierwald &amp; Ware, 2023" authorityName="Nguyen &amp; Sierwald &amp; Ware" authorityYear="2023" class="Diplopoda" family="Paradoxosomatidae" genus="Touranella" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Touranella champasak" order="Polydesmida" pageId="0" pageNumber="169" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="champasak" status="sp. nov.">Touranella champasak</taxonomicName>
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<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 2" captionStartId="F2" captionText="Figure 2. Touranella champasak sp. nov., holotype A, B head, lateral and anterior views, respectively C, D segments 8 and 9, lateral and dorsal views, respectively." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.1145.98704.figure2" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/805257" pageId="0" pageNumber="169">Figs 2</figureCitation>
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 3" captionStartId="F3" captionText="Figure 3. Touranella champasak sp. nov., holotype A segments 8 and 9, ventral view B-D caudal part of body, lateral, dorsal, and ventral views, respectively. Abbreviations: epi = epiproct; par = paraproct; hyp = hypoproct." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.1145.98704.figure3" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/805258" pageId="0" pageNumber="169">, 3</figureCitation>
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 4" captionStartId="F4" captionText="Figure 4. Touranella champasak sp. nov., holotype A sternum 5, ventral view, UV light B posterior leg on segment 9, anterior view, normal light C gonopods and sternum 5, lateral view, UV light D gonopods, ventral view, UV light." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.1145.98704.figure4" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/805259" pageId="0" pageNumber="169">, 4</figureCitation>
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 5" captionStartId="F5" captionText="Figure 5. Touranella champasak sp. nov., holotype A, B right gonopod, ventral view and mesal view, respectively C, D distal part of gonopod, ventral view and mesal view, respectively. Abbreviations: co = gonocoxite; pref = gonoprefemorite; fe = gonofemorite; sph = solenophore; sl = solenomere; ca = cannula. Scale bars: 0.1 mm (A-C), 0.02 mm (D)." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.1145.98704.figure5" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/805260" pageId="0" pageNumber="169">, 5</figureCitation>
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 6" captionStartId="F6" captionText="Figure 6. Touranella champasak sp. nov., holotype A-D right gonopod, lateral, mesal, dorsal, and ventral views, respectively. Abbreviations: co = gonocoxite; pref = gonoprefemorite; fe = gonofemorite; sph = solenophore; sl = solenomere; ca = cannula. Scale bars: 1 mm." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.1145.98704.figure6" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/805261" pageId="0" pageNumber="169">, 6</figureCitation>
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="169">Material examined.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="169">
<materialsCitation collectingDate="2008-06-08" collectingDateMax="2008-06-16" collectingDateMin="2008-06-08" collectingMethod="flight intercept trap" collectorName="A. Newton, M. Thayer" country="Laos" elevation="1095" latitude="15.238133" location="Ban Thongvay" longLatPrecision="1" longitude="106.53152" municipality="Bolaven Plateau" specimenCount="1" stateProvince="Champasak Province" typeStatus="Holotype">
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<typeStatus>Holotype</typeStatus>
</emphasis>
:
<collectingCountry name="Laos">Laos</collectingCountry>
• male;
<collectingRegion country="Laos" name="Champasak">Champasak Province</collectingRegion>
,
<collectingMunicipality>Bolaven Plateau</collectingMunicipality>
,
<location LSID="urn:lsid:plazi:treatment:1F34CB1433CE572D9DB7026C09E2004D:BAF342C62EBDBAF7591CF38B37A2673F" country="Laos" latitude="15.238133" longLatPrecision="1" longitude="106.53152" municipality="Bolaven Plateau" name="Ban Thongvay" stateProvince="Champasak Province">Ban Thongvay</location>
(=Xekatam), vic. old logging road, N of village;
<geoCoordinate degrees="15" direction="north" minutes="14.288" orientation="latitude" precision="1" value="15.238133">15°14.288'N</geoCoordinate>
,
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;
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<elevation metricMagnitude="3" metricUnit="m" metricValue="1.095" unit="m" value="1095.0">1,095 m</elevation>
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elev.;
<collectingDate value="2008-06-08" valueMax="2008-06-16" valueMin="2008-06-08">8-16 June 2008</collectingDate>
;
<collectorName>A. Newton</collectorName>
&amp;
<collectorName>M. Thayer</collectorName>
leg.; selectively logged forest, FMHD#2008-037,
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, ANMT site 1231;
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.
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="169">Diagnosis.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="169">The new species can be recognized by a submoniliform body; poorly developed paraterga; sparsely setose metaterga; the presence of a highly elevated, setose, trapeziform, sternal process between male coxae 4; a strongly reduced gonofemorite devoid of a femoral process; a somewhat twisted solenophore that distally sheaths a rod-shaped solenomere; and well-developed lamina medialis and lamina lateralis.</paragraph>
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The species is most similar to
<taxonomicName authorityName="Golovatch &amp; Semenyuk" authorityYear="2018" class="Diplopoda" family="Paradoxosomatidae" genus="Touranella" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Touranella moniliformis" order="Polydesmida" pageId="0" pageNumber="169" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="moniliformis">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="169">Touranella moniliformis</emphasis>
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Golovatch &amp; Semenyuk, 2018 from Cat Tien NP (Vietnam) by having a (sub-)moniliform body, poorly developed paraterga, and sparsely setose metaterga. The two species can be distinguished by the gonopod conformation, and the presence of a gonofemoral process in
<taxonomicName lsidName="T. moniliformis" pageId="0" pageNumber="169" rank="species" species="moniliformis">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="169">T. moniliformis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(absent from the new species).
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Regarding the absence of a gonofemoral process, the new species is similar to
<taxonomicName lsidName="T. peculiaris" pageId="0" pageNumber="169" rank="species" species="peculiaris">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="169">T. peculiaris</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
Golovatch, 2009, but can be distinguished by a strongly reduced gonofemorite (vs considerably elongated in
<taxonomicName lsidName="T. peculiaris" pageId="0" pageNumber="169" rank="species" species="peculiaris">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="169">T. peculiaris</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
).
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="169">Etymology.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="169">
The species epithet, &quot;
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&quot;, is a noun in apposition and refers to the province name where the type was collected.
</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="169">Description.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="169">Holotype length ca 21.6 mm, width of midbody pro- and metazona about 1.5 mm and 1.9 mm, respectively.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="169">
Body brown and darkish brown, except several antennomeres; legs and sterna brownish yellow or yellow; posterior margins of prozonae and metazonae, anterior margins of metazonae, and transverse sulcus black; metaterga with a yellow axial band running from collum to telson (Fig.
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).
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="169">Figure 2.</emphasis>
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="169">Touranella champasak</emphasis>
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sp. nov., holotype
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="169">A, B</emphasis>
head, lateral and anterior views, respectively
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segments 8 and 9, lateral and dorsal views, respectively.
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Antenna long and slender, approximately reaching to segment 5 when extended back; antennomere 1 very short and robust (Fig.
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); antennomere 2=3=4=5=6&gt; 7 in length. Tip with four sensory cones. Antennomere 2 strongly constricted at base (Fig.
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 2" captionStartId="F2" captionText="Figure 2. Touranella champasak sp. nov., holotype A, B head, lateral and anterior views, respectively C, D segments 8 and 9, lateral and dorsal views, respectively." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.1145.98704.figure2" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/805257" pageId="0" pageNumber="169">2A, B</figureCitation>
).
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Collum smooth and shiny, suboval, with two rows of setae: 3+3 anterior and 2+2 posterior. Paraterga small, broadly rounded lobe (Fig.
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).
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Body submoniliform. Prozonae and metazonae smooth, shiny (Figs
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 2" captionStartId="F2" captionText="Figure 2. Touranella champasak sp. nov., holotype A, B head, lateral and anterior views, respectively C, D segments 8 and 9, lateral and dorsal views, respectively." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.1145.98704.figure2" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/805257" pageId="0" pageNumber="169">2A, C-D</figureCitation>
,
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 3" captionStartId="F3" captionText="Figure 3. Touranella champasak sp. nov., holotype A segments 8 and 9, ventral view B-D caudal part of body, lateral, dorsal, and ventral views, respectively. Abbreviations: epi = epiproct; par = paraproct; hyp = hypoproct." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.1145.98704.figure3" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/805258" pageId="0" pageNumber="169">3</figureCitation>
). Metatergal transverse sulcus present from segment 5, but completely developed starting on bodyring 6 (Fig.
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 2" captionStartId="F2" captionText="Figure 2. Touranella champasak sp. nov., holotype A, B head, lateral and anterior views, respectively C, D segments 8 and 9, lateral and dorsal views, respectively." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.1145.98704.figure2" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/805257" pageId="0" pageNumber="169">2D</figureCitation>
). Metaterga with traces of two setal rows: 2+2 anterior and 2+2 posterior. Pleurosternal carinae present as full crests on segments 2-4, becoming less developed on subsequent segments, completely missing on segments 18-19. Stricture between pro- and metazonae very distinct, fully striolate at bottom on both dorsal and lateral sides (Fig.
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 3" captionStartId="F3" captionText="Figure 3. Touranella champasak sp. nov., holotype A segments 8 and 9, ventral view B-D caudal part of body, lateral, dorsal, and ventral views, respectively. Abbreviations: epi = epiproct; par = paraproct; hyp = hypoproct." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.1145.98704.figure3" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/805258" pageId="0" pageNumber="169">3D</figureCitation>
). Axial line thin, distinct.
</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="169">
Paraterga (Figs
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 2" captionStartId="F2" captionText="Figure 2. Touranella champasak sp. nov., holotype A, B head, lateral and anterior views, respectively C, D segments 8 and 9, lateral and dorsal views, respectively." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.1145.98704.figure2" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/805257" pageId="0" pageNumber="169">2C, D</figureCitation>
,
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 3" captionStartId="F3" captionText="Figure 3. Touranella champasak sp. nov., holotype A segments 8 and 9, ventral view B-D caudal part of body, lateral, dorsal, and ventral views, respectively. Abbreviations: epi = epiproct; par = paraproct; hyp = hypoproct." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.1145.98704.figure3" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/805258" pageId="0" pageNumber="169">3B, C</figureCitation>
) yellowish, small as complete crests from lateral side, but more obvious on pore-bearing segments, slightly directed caudally upwards.
</paragraph>
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Epiproct (
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="169">epi</emphasis>
) (Fig.
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 3" captionStartId="F3" captionText="Figure 3. Touranella champasak sp. nov., holotype A segments 8 and 9, ventral view B-D caudal part of body, lateral, dorsal, and ventral views, respectively. Abbreviations: epi = epiproct; par = paraproct; hyp = hypoproct." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.1145.98704.figure3" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/805258" pageId="0" pageNumber="169">3B-D</figureCitation>
) long, broadly truncated, flattened dorsoventrally, lateral tubercles minute; tip with four spinnerets. Hypoproct (
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="169">hyp</emphasis>
) (Fig.
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 3" captionStartId="F3" captionText="Figure 3. Touranella champasak sp. nov., holotype A segments 8 and 9, ventral view B-D caudal part of body, lateral, dorsal, and ventral views, respectively. Abbreviations: epi = epiproct; par = paraproct; hyp = hypoproct." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.1145.98704.figure3" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/805258" pageId="0" pageNumber="169">3D</figureCitation>
) subtrapeziform, with two separated, distolateral, setiferous knobs. Paraprocts (
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="169">par</emphasis>
) sub-semicircular with two distinct setiferous knobs.
</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="169">
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="169">Figure 3.</emphasis>
<taxonomicName authorityName="Nguyen &amp; Sierwald &amp; Ware" authorityYear="2023" class="Diplopoda" family="Paradoxosomatidae" genus="Touranella" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Touranella champasak" order="Polydesmida" pageId="0" pageNumber="169" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="champasak">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="169">Touranella champasak</emphasis>
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sp. nov., holotype
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="169">A</emphasis>
segments 8 and 9, ventral view
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="169">B-D</emphasis>
caudal part of body, lateral, dorsal, and ventral views, respectively. Abbreviations: epi = epiproct; par = paraproct; hyp = hypoproct.
</paragraph>
</caption>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="169">
Legs long and slender, about 1.7-1.8 times as long as midbody height. Prefemora not swollen. Femora without modification. Tarsal brushes (Fig.
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) present on legs until segment 16.
</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="169">
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="169">Figure 4.</emphasis>
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="169">Touranella champasak</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
sp. nov., holotype
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sternum 5, ventral view, UV light
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="169">B</emphasis>
posterior leg on segment 9, anterior view, normal light
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="169">C</emphasis>
gonopods and sternum 5, lateral view, UV light
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="169">D</emphasis>
gonopods, ventral view, UV light.
</paragraph>
</caption>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="169">
Sterna (Fig.
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 3" captionStartId="F3" captionText="Figure 3. Touranella champasak sp. nov., holotype A segments 8 and 9, ventral view B-D caudal part of body, lateral, dorsal, and ventral views, respectively. Abbreviations: epi = epiproct; par = paraproct; hyp = hypoproct." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.1145.98704.figure3" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/805258" pageId="0" pageNumber="169">3A, D</figureCitation>
) with distinct cross-impression, without modifications except a highly elevated, setose trapeziform process between coxae 4 (Fig.
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 4" captionStartId="F4" captionText="Figure 4. Touranella champasak sp. nov., holotype A sternum 5, ventral view, UV light B posterior leg on segment 9, anterior view, normal light C gonopods and sternum 5, lateral view, UV light D gonopods, ventral view, UV light." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.1145.98704.figure4" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/805259" pageId="0" pageNumber="169">4A, C</figureCitation>
). This process carrying a setal brush on anterior side and two pores at base.
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Gonopods (Figs
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 4" captionStartId="F4" captionText="Figure 4. Touranella champasak sp. nov., holotype A sternum 5, ventral view, UV light B posterior leg on segment 9, anterior view, normal light C gonopods and sternum 5, lateral view, UV light D gonopods, ventral view, UV light." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.1145.98704.figure4" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/805259" pageId="0" pageNumber="169">4C, D</figureCitation>
,
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 5" captionStartId="F5" captionText="Figure 5. Touranella champasak sp. nov., holotype A, B right gonopod, ventral view and mesal view, respectively C, D distal part of gonopod, ventral view and mesal view, respectively. Abbreviations: co = gonocoxite; pref = gonoprefemorite; fe = gonofemorite; sph = solenophore; sl = solenomere; ca = cannula. Scale bars: 0.1 mm (A-C), 0.02 mm (D)." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.1145.98704.figure5" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/805260" pageId="0" pageNumber="169">5</figureCitation>
,
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 6" captionStartId="F6" captionText="Figure 6. Touranella champasak sp. nov., holotype A-D right gonopod, lateral, mesal, dorsal, and ventral views, respectively. Abbreviations: co = gonocoxite; pref = gonoprefemorite; fe = gonofemorite; sph = solenophore; sl = solenomere; ca = cannula. Scale bars: 1 mm." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.1145.98704.figure6" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/805261" pageId="0" pageNumber="169">6</figureCitation>
) simple. Coxite (
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="169">co</emphasis>
) subcylindrical, as long as about
<normalizedToken originalValue="½">1/2</normalizedToken>
telopodite, distoventral part sparsely setose. Prefemorite (
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="169">pref</emphasis>
) short, densely setose. Femorite (
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="169">fe</emphasis>
) strongly reduced, without femoral process. Postfemoral region extremely long, consisting of only solenomere (
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="169">sl</emphasis>
) and solenophore (
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="169">sph</emphasis>
). Solenomere rod-shaped, arising from prefemorite, distal part sheathed by solenophore, which is suberect, slightly twisted at distal part; lamina lateralis with an apical spine and a well-developed, rounded lobe. Tip of gonopod serrated with three distinct denticles.
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="169">Figure 5.</emphasis>
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="169">Touranella champasak</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
sp. nov., holotype
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="169">A, B</emphasis>
right gonopod, ventral view and mesal view, respectively
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="169">C, D</emphasis>
distal part of gonopod, ventral view and mesal view, respectively. Abbreviations: co = gonocoxite; pref = gonoprefemorite; fe = gonofemorite; sph = solenophore; sl = solenomere; ca = cannula. Scale bars: 0.1 mm (
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="169">A-C</emphasis>
), 0.02 mm (
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="169">D</emphasis>
).
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="169">Remarks.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="169">
Even though the distributional gap is slightly narrowed by the occurrence of this genus in Laos, more species most probably have yet to be discovered, at least in and between southern Vietnam and Nepal, including Laos, northern Thailand, and Myanmar (Fig.
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 1" captionStartId="F1" captionText="Figure 1. Distribution of the genus Touranella Attems, 1937. 1 = Touranella pilosa Golovatch, 2016, 2 = Touranella himalayaensis Golovatch, 1994, 3 = Touranella gracilis Attems, 1937, 4 = Touranella trichosa Golovatch &amp; Semenyuk, 2018, 5 = Touranella hirsuta Golovatch, 2009 and Touranella peculiaris Golovatch, 2009, 6 = Touranella cattiensis Golovatch &amp; Semenyuk, 2010 and Touranella moniliformis Golovatch &amp; Semenyuk, 2018, 7 = Touranella champasak sp. nov." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.1145.98704.figure1" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/805256" pageId="0" pageNumber="169">1</figureCitation>
).
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<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="169">Figure 6.</emphasis>
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="169">Touranella champasak</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
sp. nov., holotype
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="169">A-D</emphasis>
right gonopod, lateral, mesal, dorsal, and ventral views, respectively. Abbreviations: co = gonocoxite; pref = gonoprefemorite; fe = gonofemorite; sph = solenophore; sl = solenomere; ca = cannula. Scale bars: 1 mm.
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