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<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 1" captionStartId="F1" captionText="Figure 1. Photographs of living Zephronia spp. A-D Zephronia siamensis E, F Zephronia phrain. Photographs not to scale." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.1067.72369.figure1" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/604301" pageId="0" pageNumber="19">Figures 1E, F</figureCitation>
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 5" captionStartId="F5" captionText="Figure 5. Zephronia phrain A-D male specimen from Phawor Shrine, Tak Province E, F female A right antenna, ventral view B the ninth left leg, posterior view C first coxae with stigmatic plates, posterior view D coxae of second legs with gonopores, posterior view E coxae and prefemur of second legs with vulvae, posterior view F subanal plate, ventral view. Abbreviations: cx = coxa, o = operculum, pre = prefemur, syn-cx = syncoxite, st-pl = stigmatic plate." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.1067.72369.figure5" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/604305" pageId="0" pageNumber="19">; 5</figureCitation>
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 6" captionStartId="F6" captionText="Figure 6. Zephronia phrain, male specimen from Phawor Shrine, Tak Province A telopods, anterior view B anterior telopod, anterior view C posterior telopod, posterior view D right anterior and posterior telopods, ventral view. Abbreviations: cr-T = crenulated teeth, cx = coxa, ML = membranous lobe, syn-cx = syncoxite." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.1067.72369.figure6" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/604306" pageId="0" pageNumber="19">; 6</figureCitation>
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Likhitrakarn &amp; Golovatch, 2021 in
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: 19.
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="19">Material examined.</paragraph>
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leg.
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="19">Description of some characters for a population in Tak Province.</paragraph>
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: Length in male 29.0-31.0 mm (holotype 33.5 mm), female 30.0-33.0 mm; head 5.5 mm; thoracic shield 5.5-6.0 mm; anal shield 9.5-10.5 mm.
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: Width in male 16.5 mm (holotype 18.2 mm), female 16.5-17.0 mm; head 8.0-9.0 mm; thoracic shield 15.0-16.0 mm; anal shield 14.0-15.5 mm.
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<emphasis bold="true" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="19">Body height</emphasis>
: Height in male 10.0 mm (holotype 11.2 mm), female 10.0-11.0 mm; thoracic shield 9.0-10.5 mm; tergite 9.5-11.0 mm.
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<emphasis bold="true" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="19">Color</emphasis>
(Fig.
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): Specimens in life with brown or dark brown; head, antennae and collum, thoracic shield, paratergites, anal shield and legs brown or dark brown; anterior margins of thoracic shield, of tergites and of anal shield dark brown contrasting with the posterior brown ones; setose part of thoracic shield with golden sheen. Color in alcohol after six years not changed.
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(Fig.
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): Quite shiny; surface glabrous, with sparse, tiny, inconspicuous pits; tip of paratergite of midbody tergites curved, directed posteroventrad; anterior half of lateral margin covered with long and conspicuous setae.
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(Fig.
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 5" captionStartId="F5" captionText="Figure 5. Zephronia phrain A-D male specimen from Phawor Shrine, Tak Province E, F female A right antenna, ventral view B the ninth left leg, posterior view C first coxae with stigmatic plates, posterior view D coxae of second legs with gonopores, posterior view E coxae and prefemur of second legs with vulvae, posterior view F subanal plate, ventral view. Abbreviations: cx = coxa, o = operculum, pre = prefemur, syn-cx = syncoxite, st-pl = stigmatic plate." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.1067.72369.figure5" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/604305" pageId="0" pageNumber="19">5B</figureCitation>
): Leg-pairs 1 and 2 without apical spine. Leg-pair 1 with four ventral spines, leg-pair 2 with four or five ventral spines. Leg-pair 3 with seven or eight ventral spines and one or two apical spines. Leg-pair 4 with nine or ten ventral spines and two or three apical spines. Leg-pairs 5-19 with 9-11 ventral spines and 1-3 apical spines. Last two leg-pairs with eight or nine ventral spines, and one or two apical spines. In leg 9, femur ca. 1.7
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, tarsus ca. 3.4
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longer than wide. Length of tarsus&gt; femur&gt; prefemur&gt; coxa&gt; tibia ≥ postfemur. All podomeres densely setose. Coxa large, with dentate ridge marginally (coxal process). Coxal process absent in leg-pairs 1 and 2. Prefemur without teeth. Femur slightly extended mesally; mesal margin with very small, tiny, inconspicuous teeth.
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<emphasis bold="true" italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="19">Subanal plate</emphasis>
(Fig.
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 5" captionStartId="F5" captionText="Figure 5. Zephronia phrain A-D male specimen from Phawor Shrine, Tak Province E, F female A right antenna, ventral view B the ninth left leg, posterior view C first coxae with stigmatic plates, posterior view D coxae of second legs with gonopores, posterior view E coxae and prefemur of second legs with vulvae, posterior view F subanal plate, ventral view. Abbreviations: cx = coxa, o = operculum, pre = prefemur, syn-cx = syncoxite, st-pl = stigmatic plate." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.1067.72369.figure5" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/604305" pageId="0" pageNumber="19">5F</figureCitation>
): Trapeziform, undivided; central margin (tip) truncate, narrow; lateral margin straight. Densely setose.
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Head, antenna,
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organ, gnathochilarium, stigmatic plates, laterotergites, collum, thoracic shield, endotergum, anal shield, male sexual characters, anterior telopods, posterior telopods, and female sexual characters: Same as the original description in
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.
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="19">Distribution and habitats</paragraph>
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(Figs
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,
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 16" captionStartId="F16" captionText="Figure 16. Known distribution of Zephronia spp. in Thailand. Red triangle = Zephronia lannaensis; green circle = Zephronia phrain; blue triangle = Zephronia enghoffi sp. nov.; sky blue square = Zephronia golovatchi sp. nov.; purple circle = Zephronia panhai sp. nov.; yellow diamond = Zephronia siamensis Hirst, 1907; orange square = Zephronia viridisoma." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.1067.72369.figure16" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/604316" pageId="0" pageNumber="19">16</figureCitation>
). Currently known to occur in northern Thailand (Chiang Mai and Tak provinces) in dry dipterocarp forest and from limestone areas. Observations made at Phawor Shrine found that most specimens were seen creeping on rocks, with some hiding in leaf litter. Notably, the specimens were found in syntopy with the dragon millipede (
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Srisonchai, Enghoff &amp; Panha, 2018) at the same site (
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).
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="19">Remarks.</paragraph>
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Based on observations of live specimens in the field, two color patterns were found, dark green in type specimens and brown/dark brown in the others from Tak Province (Fig.
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; fig. 1C, D in
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).
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A species described by
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from Myanmar (
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, Mount Mooleyit, Kayah State),
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Pocock, 1890 occurs close to the type locality of this widespread species, but
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clearly differs from
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by being longer in body length (vs. shorter, ca. 14 mm), having a longer immovable finger or longer process of telopoditomere 2 (vs. shorter) and having a truncate/round central margin of subanal plate (vs. convex).
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Based on material described by
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, deposited in the CUMZ (holotype CUMZ-Zeph0003, paratypes CUMZ-Zeph0004).
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