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<taxonomicName id="1C2F35205E1DA4337E89A80A4E3A0F5C" LSID="http://zoobank.org/99801C98-30DD-4939-B346-4D279B80273F" class="Dothideomycetes" family="Trichothyriaceae" genus="Trichopeltis" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Trichopeltis sutchariti" order="Microthyriales" pageId="5" pageNumber="128" phylum="Ascomycota" rank="species" species="sutchariti">
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sutchariti
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<taxonomicNameLabel id="F325674E684FCCE2BF503D75B765F5CB" pageId="5" pageNumber="128">sp. n.</taxonomicNameLabel>
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Figs 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
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<paragraph id="A190E2874B3D4B27BADC5E40CFD6BF34" pageId="5" pageNumber="128">Type material.</paragraph>
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Holotype ♂ (CUMZ), China, Yunnan Province, Xishuangbanna County, Mengla, 213 National Road, near Menglunzhen, Munlun village, 578 m a.s.l.,
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,
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, 25.10.2016, leg. J. Sutcharit & S. Panha.
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<paragraph id="40B59FF244859D82984BE1111D232AF6" pageId="5" pageNumber="128">Paratypes.</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="AB8DA9E50B61591BD891227B893C12E3" pageId="5" pageNumber="128">2 ♂♂, 1 ♀ (CUMZ), 1 ♀ (ZMUM), same locality, together with holotype.</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="08AE74B8843C536EDA9082FF4A746A60" pageId="5" pageNumber="128">Name.</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="EB6964CF33E9C090D4661E8676A3C98A" pageId="5" pageNumber="128">Honours Jirasak Sutcharit (CUMZ), one of the collectors.</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="7909CFE396C73BD28E959F75573FFCE4" pageId="5" pageNumber="128">Differential dagnosis.</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="F7C0BD52F0B293D0386059C6BD2D0FEA" lastPageId="6" lastPageNumber="129" pageId="5" pageNumber="128">
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This new species seems to be particularly similar to
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Liu, Golovatch & Tian, 2017 and
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<taxonomicName id="3C9C84FA8BE4F75C8E3212DD70366C7C" lsidName="T. intricatus" pageId="5" pageNumber="128" rank="species" species="intricatus">T. intricatus</taxonomicName>
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Liu, Golovatch & Tian, 2017, both from caves in southern China (
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<bibRefCitation id="1B51441D40AE080050817FD8C394B6AA" author="Liu, W" journalOrPublisher="ZooKeys" pageId="11" pageNumber="134" pagination="1 - 14" title="Three new cavernicolous species of the millipede genus Trichopeltis Pocock, 1894 (Diplopoda: Polydesmida: Cryptodesmidae) from southern China." url="https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.710.20025" volume="710" year="2017">Liu et al. 2017</bibRefCitation>
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), since they all are distinguished by the presence of abundant long setae on the lateral face of the gonopodal coxae, and by highly complex gonopodal telopodites. However,
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<taxonomicName id="FA1B8E6F68AF5610A30B8349B7F5A71C" lsidName="T. sutchariti" pageId="5" pageNumber="128" rank="species" species="sutchariti">T. sutchariti</taxonomicName>
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sp. n. differs from them,
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well from all other congeners in that its gonopodal telopodites are noticeably curved caudolaterad, and there is a strong, curved, laterally densely setose process (cxp) on each of the gonopodal coxae (Fig. 4).
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<paragraph id="44F3E19825625C9E04154C28883EE488" pageId="6" pageNumber="129">Description.</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="347BE6B6EF2372202B47BBCDA5F0C6D2" pageId="6" pageNumber="129">Length 13.9-15.2 (♂) or 14.2-14.5 mm (♀), width of midbody pro- and metazona 1.7-1.9 and 4.8-5.1 mm (♂) or 1.8-2.0 and 4.4-5.2 mm (♀), respectively.</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="2ED3CE9EEF3AFD41E51CC84156183A92" pageId="6" pageNumber="129">Colouration of live animals uniformly whitish yellow (Fig. 1A), sometimes light red-brownish mid-dorsally (Fig. 1B); head, legs and venter whitish yellow to pallid, antennae light brown, increasingly infuscate distally; colouration in alcohol, after eight months of preservation, entirely pallid, only antennae still infuscate (brown) distally.</paragraph>
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Figure 1. Habitus, live colouration of
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<taxonomicName id="6F7A6C6C4AA62ED77C7B5048D6FA7028" class="Diplopoda" family="Cryptodesmidae" genus="Trichopeltis" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Trichopeltis sutchariti" order="Polydesmida" pageId="6" pageNumber="129" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="sutchariti">Trichopeltis sutchariti</taxonomicName>
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sp. n., A ♀ paratype B ♂ holotype. Scale bar: 5 mm.
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and vertex densely pilose, epicranial suture distinct. Antennae rather short and clavate (Figs 1B, 2A, B), reaching segment 3 (♂, ♀) when stretched laterally or ventrolaterally; in length, antennomere 6> 3> (4 = 2)> 5; antennomeres 5-7 each with a compact apicodorsal group of bacilliform sensilla (Fig. 2C). Body with 20 segments (Fig. 1A, B), composed of collum plus 17 podous and one apodous ring, plus telson. In width, head << collum <segment 2 <3 <4 <5-17; thereafter body rapidly tapering towards telson (Fig. 3H).
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Figure 2.
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<taxonomicName id="A8AD74789ADD80A23FB9EA5B00472DAF" class="Diplopoda" family="Cryptodesmidae" genus="Trichopeltis" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Trichopeltis sutchariti" order="Polydesmida" pageId="6" pageNumber="129" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="sutchariti">Trichopeltis sutchariti</taxonomicName>
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sp. n., ♂ paratype. A, D anterior part of body, ventral and dorsal views, respectively B antenna, ventral view C bacilliform sensilla on antennomere 5, lateral view E prozona of segment 2, dorsal view H limbus of collum, dorsal view F midbody segment, dorsal view G cross-section of a midbody segment, caudal view I enlarged prozona and stricture between pro- and metazona of a midbody segment, dorsal view.
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Figure 3.
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<taxonomicName id="0465A4C7BE3356A22009754B28BE3755" class="Diplopoda" family="Cryptodesmidae" genus="Trichopeltis" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Trichopeltis sutchariti" order="Polydesmida" pageId="6" pageNumber="129" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="sutchariti">Trichopeltis sutchariti</taxonomicName>
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sp. n., ♂ paratype. A segments 9-12, dorsal view B paraterga of segment 10, dorsal view C anterior edge of paraterga, dorsal view D paraterga, lateral view E metaterga of segment 9, dorsal view F setigerous tuberculations on metaterga, dorsal view G spherical knobs on metaterga, dorsal view H, I posterior part of body, dorsal and ventral views, respectively J, K gonopod, ventral and sublateral views, respectively L enlarged epiproct, dorsal view M enlarged prozona, dorsal view. SEM without metallic coating.
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<paragraph id="2119777936773D2BA3DFF5A4F6F6277B" pageId="6" pageNumber="129">Tegument dull, prozonae finely shagreened (Figs 2E, I, 3M); metaterga densely tuberculate and setose (Figs 2D, E, F, 3A, B, E, H). Fore and caudolateral margins of collum, as well as anterolateral, lateral and caudal margins of following paraterga evidently crenulate-lobulate, these lobulations being slightly larger at caudal margins of paraterga (Figs 2D, 3A, H).</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="E02CA433F76DCD5313E2D646EF104961" pageId="6" pageNumber="129">Collum completely covering the head from above, regularly convex at fore margin, concave caudally, tuberculations arranged in 8-9 irregular transverse rows of evident setigerous knobs with abundant spherical granulations (Fig. 2D); caudal corner of paraterga narrowly rounded, declined ventrad, but not projecting beyond rear tergal margin (Fig. 2A).</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="49CC50898E314FC2A3A7A1F4BCD7F45D" pageId="6" pageNumber="129">Dorsum convex, postcollum paraterga flat, very broad and long, narrowly rounded laterally, evidently and regularly declivous and continuing the outline of dorsum; anterior edge straight, rib-shaped, forming a distinct shoulder, abundantly microgranulate and micropilose (Fig. 3C); tips of paraterga reaching level of venter, directed increasingly caudolaterad starting with segment 14, drawn behind rear tergal margin on segments 16-18 and strongly curved caudad on segment 19 (Fig. 3H); metatergal tuberculations arranged in 5-6 irregular transverse rows of small, round, setigerous knobs surrounded with abundant spherical granulations, these partly extending onto paraterga (Figs 2E, I, 3E, F, G); tergal setae rather short, slender and simple, mostly retained in caudal row on each metatergum (Fig. 2E), macrochaetae absent.</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="A9EF1C223791F0F85B12E8D21298E847" pageId="6" pageNumber="129">Limbus a row of simple, relatively short, tongue-shaped protuberances, abundantly microdenticulate apically (Fig. 2E, H). Ozopores invisible, pore formula untraceable. Pleurosternal carinae with complete crests only on segments 2 and 3 (♀) or with a sharp caudal tooth on segments 2 and 3, but segment 4 with a small rounded denticle (♂), thereafter absent.</paragraph>
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<pageBreakToken id="0228F3CCD568AA44573C1B7F785BE592" pageId="7" pageNumber="130" start="start">Epiproct</pageBreakToken>
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(Fig. 3H, L) conical, flattened dorsoventrally, microtuberculate, with four strong apical papillae. Hypoproct roundly subtrapeziform (Fig. 3I), 1+1 caudal setae clearly separated, borne on small, but evident knobs.
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<paragraph id="6B0CEFB475709C3BBBE877EB3E088458" pageId="7" pageNumber="130">Sterna usual, sparsely setose, without modifications, cross-impressions evident (Fig. 3I).</paragraph>
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Legs very long and slender, without modifications (Figs 2G, 3I), ca. 1.3-1.4 times as long as paratergal width (♂, ♀) (Figs 1-3); in length, femora = tarsi >> prefemora
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gt; tibiae> coxae and postfemora (Fig. 2G); gonapophyses on ♂ coxae 2 small cones; neither adenostyles nor tarsal brushes present. Gonopod aperture transversely ovoid, caudal and lateral margins thin, only slightly elevated (Fig. 2A).
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(Figs 2A, 3J, K, 4) complex. Each coxa with a conspicuous, high, curved, laterally densely setose process (cxp). Telopodite stout, clearly curved caudolaterad (Fig. 3J), approximately twice as long as coxal process, divided by a notch, but compact apically (Fig. 4).
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Figure 4.
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sp. n., ♂ holotype.
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right gonopod, subfrontal, mesal (mirror image), sublateral, subcaudal and subfrontal views, respectively. Scale bar: 0.4 mm. Del. N. Likhitrakarn.
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<paragraph id="12E885FB70F56985434C007B805C9824" pageId="9" pageNumber="132">Remarks.</paragraph>
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All five specimens were taken from a rather large population found on limestone rocks, as well as on tree trunks during the rainy season. It seems noteworthy that the surface structures illustrated in the new species, such as the sculpture of the prozonae and the shape of the limbus (Fig. 2H, I), perfectly match the findings of
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<bibRefCitation id="FE42C72382C2FBA74F797E48D26CBB8C" author="Akkari, N" journalOrPublisher="ZooKeys" pageId="9" pageNumber="132" pagination="1 - 24" title="On some surface structures of potential taxonomic importance in families of the suborders Polydesmidea and Dalodesmidea (Polydesmida, Diplopoda)." url="http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.156.2134" volume="156" year="2011">Akkari and Enghoff (2011)</bibRefCitation>
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in other genera/species of the same family.
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