291 lines
26 KiB
XML
291 lines
26 KiB
XML
<document ID-DOI="http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.760.24837" ID-GBIF-Dataset="761cf655-f721-4cb0-9814-e3b3e8b3a3f3" ID-PMC="PMC5986853" ID-Pensoft-Pub="1313-2970-760-55" ID-PubMed="29872363" ID-ZBK="6DD92B71C8194BF7A1355EE43E799946" ModsDocAuthor="" ModsDocDate="2018" ModsDocID="1313-2970-760-55" ModsDocOrigin="ZooKeys 760" ModsDocTitle="Two new species of the millipede family Cambalopsidae from Myanmar (Diplopoda, Spirostreptida)" checkinTime="1527525296613" checkinUser="pensoft" docAuthor="Likhitrakarn, Natdanai, Golovatch, Sergei I., Srisonchai, Ruttapon, Franck Brehier,, Lin, Aung, Sutcharit, Chirasak & Panha, Somsak" docDate="2018" docId="B70F8F94FB088FFAB2EF0517B5651666" docLanguage="en" docName="ZooKeys 760: 55-71" docOrigin="ZooKeys 760" docSource="http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.760.24837" docTitle="Plusioglyphiulus digitiformis Likhitrakarn, Golovatch, Srisonchai, Brehier, Lin, Sutcharit & Panha, 2018, sp. n." docType="treatment" docUuid="0F9B6EEB-4144-48BE-B71E-F4422E7AFA13" docUuidSource="ZooBank" docVersion="5" lastPageNumber="55" masterDocId="B959FFA2556FFE7EFFE8FFB3FFFDFFAB" masterDocTitle="Two new species of the millipede family Cambalopsidae from Myanmar (Diplopoda, Spirostreptida)" masterLastPageNumber="71" masterPageNumber="55" pageNumber="55" updateTime="1668165823934" updateUser="ExternalLinkService">
|
||
<mods:mods xmlns:mods="http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3">
|
||
<mods:titleInfo>
|
||
<mods:title>Two new species of the millipede family Cambalopsidae from Myanmar (Diplopoda, Spirostreptida)</mods:title>
|
||
</mods:titleInfo>
|
||
<mods:name type="personal">
|
||
<mods:role>
|
||
<mods:roleTerm>Author</mods:roleTerm>
|
||
</mods:role>
|
||
<mods:namePart>Likhitrakarn, Natdanai</mods:namePart>
|
||
</mods:name>
|
||
<mods:name type="personal">
|
||
<mods:role>
|
||
<mods:roleTerm>Author</mods:roleTerm>
|
||
</mods:role>
|
||
<mods:namePart>Golovatch, Sergei I.</mods:namePart>
|
||
</mods:name>
|
||
<mods:name type="personal">
|
||
<mods:role>
|
||
<mods:roleTerm>Author</mods:roleTerm>
|
||
</mods:role>
|
||
<mods:namePart>Srisonchai, Ruttapon</mods:namePart>
|
||
</mods:name>
|
||
<mods:name type="personal">
|
||
<mods:role>
|
||
<mods:roleTerm>Author</mods:roleTerm>
|
||
</mods:role>
|
||
<mods:namePart>Franck Brehier,</mods:namePart>
|
||
</mods:name>
|
||
<mods:name type="personal">
|
||
<mods:role>
|
||
<mods:roleTerm>Author</mods:roleTerm>
|
||
</mods:role>
|
||
<mods:namePart>Lin, Aung</mods:namePart>
|
||
</mods:name>
|
||
<mods:name type="personal">
|
||
<mods:role>
|
||
<mods:roleTerm>Author</mods:roleTerm>
|
||
</mods:role>
|
||
<mods:namePart>Sutcharit, Chirasak</mods:namePart>
|
||
</mods:name>
|
||
<mods:name type="personal">
|
||
<mods:role>
|
||
<mods:roleTerm>Author</mods:roleTerm>
|
||
</mods:role>
|
||
<mods:namePart>Panha, Somsak</mods:namePart>
|
||
</mods:name>
|
||
<mods:typeOfResource>text</mods:typeOfResource>
|
||
<mods:relatedItem type="host">
|
||
<mods:titleInfo>
|
||
<mods:title>ZooKeys</mods:title>
|
||
</mods:titleInfo>
|
||
<mods:part>
|
||
<mods:date>2018</mods:date>
|
||
<mods:detail type="volume">
|
||
<mods:number>760</mods:number>
|
||
</mods:detail>
|
||
<mods:extent unit="page">
|
||
<mods:start>55</mods:start>
|
||
<mods:end>71</mods:end>
|
||
</mods:extent>
|
||
</mods:part>
|
||
</mods:relatedItem>
|
||
<mods:location>
|
||
<mods:url>http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.760.24837</mods:url>
|
||
</mods:location>
|
||
<mods:classification>journal article</mods:classification>
|
||
<mods:identifier type="DOI">http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.760.24837</mods:identifier>
|
||
<mods:identifier type="Pensoft-Pub">1313-2970-760-55</mods:identifier>
|
||
<mods:identifier type="ZBK">6DD92B71C8194BF7A1355EE43E799946</mods:identifier>
|
||
<mods:identifier type="ZooBank">6DD92B71C8194BF7A1355EE43E799946</mods:identifier>
|
||
</mods:mods>
|
||
<treatment ID-GBIF-Taxon="144148327" LSID="urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:0F9B6EEB-4144-48BE-B71E-F4422E7AFA13" httpUri="http://treatment.plazi.org/id/B70F8F94FB088FFAB2EF0517B5651666" lastPageNumber="55" pageId="0" pageNumber="55">
|
||
<subSubSection pageId="0" pageNumber="55" type="nomenclature">
|
||
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="55">
|
||
<taxonomicName LSID="http://zoobank.org/0F9B6EEB-4144-48BE-B71E-F4422E7AFA13" class="Diplopoda" family="Glyphiulidae" genus="Plusioglyphiulus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Plusioglyphiulus digitiformis" order="Spirostreptida" pageId="0" pageNumber="55" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="digitiformis">Plusioglyphiulus digitiformis</taxonomicName>
|
||
<taxonomicNameLabel pageId="0" pageNumber="55">sp. n.</taxonomicNameLabel>
|
||
Figs 1, 2, 3, 4
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subSubSection>
|
||
<subSubSection pageId="0" pageNumber="55" type="holotype">
|
||
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="55">Holotype</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="55">
|
||
♂ (CUMZ), Myanmar, Shan State, Taunggyi, Hopong, Parpant area, cave,
|
||
<geoCoordinate direction="north" orientation="latitude" precision="15" value="20.725">20°43'30"N</geoCoordinate>
|
||
,
|
||
<geoCoordinate direction="east" orientation="longitude" precision="15" value="97.134445">97°08'04"E</geoCoordinate>
|
||
, 23.09.2015, leg. C. Sutcharit and R. Srisonchai.
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subSubSection>
|
||
<subSubSection pageId="0" pageNumber="55" type="paratypes">
|
||
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="55">Paratypes.</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="55">
|
||
7 ♂, 18 ♀ (CUMZ), same data as holotype. 2 ♂, 1 ♀ (MNHN, MY15-16/09), Shan State, Jatwet Gu (Linwe Depression Cave #2), limestone,
|
||
<geoCoordinate direction="north" orientation="latitude" precision="15" value="21.227777">21°13'40"N</geoCoordinate>
|
||
,
|
||
<geoCoordinate direction="east" orientation="longitude" precision="15" value="96.55667">96°33'24"E</geoCoordinate>
|
||
, 29.11.2015; 1 ♀ (MNHN, MY15-17/10 (SS06)), same State, Kyauk Khaung Cave (Stone Cave), limestone,
|
||
<geoCoordinate direction="north" orientation="latitude" precision="15" value="21.19111">21°11'28"N</geoCoordinate>
|
||
,
|
||
<geoCoordinate direction="east" orientation="longitude" precision="15" value="96.552505">96°33'09"E</geoCoordinate>
|
||
, 29.11.2015; 9 ♂, 17 ♀, 1 juv. (MNHN, MY15-18/06), same State, Mondawa Gu Cave, limestone,
|
||
<geoCoordinate direction="north" orientation="latitude" precision="15" value="20.754723">20°45'17"N</geoCoordinate>
|
||
,
|
||
<geoCoordinate direction="east" orientation="longitude" precision="15" value="97.0175">97°01'03"E</geoCoordinate>
|
||
, 01.12.2015; 7 ♀ (MNHN, SS11), same locality, 21.09.2015; 13 ♂, 15 ♀ (MNHN, MY15-20/04), same State, Parpent Cave n°1, Guano, limestone,
|
||
<geoCoordinate direction="north" orientation="latitude" precision="15" value="20.850834">20°51'03"N</geoCoordinate>
|
||
,
|
||
<geoCoordinate direction="east" orientation="longitude" precision="15" value="97.239716">97°14'23"E</geoCoordinate>
|
||
, 02.12.2015; 2 ♂, 3 ♀, 4 juv. (MNHN, SS15), same locality, 23.09.2015; 6 ♂, 17 ♀ (MNHN, MY15-21/07), same State, Parpent Cave n°2, Guano, limestone,
|
||
<geoCoordinate direction="north" orientation="latitude" precision="15" value="20.851112">20°51'04"N</geoCoordinate>
|
||
,
|
||
<geoCoordinate direction="east" orientation="longitude" precision="15" value="97.241104">97°14'28"E</geoCoordinate>
|
||
, 02.12.2015, all leg. F.
|
||
<normalizedToken originalValue="Bréhier">Brehier</normalizedToken>
|
||
.
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subSubSection>
|
||
<subSubSection pageId="0" pageNumber="55" type="materials_examined">
|
||
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="55">Other material.</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="55">
|
||
4 ♂, 14 ♀ (MNHN, MY15-14/09), 2 ♂, 3 ♀ (ZMUM), Mon State, Saddan Sin Gu Cave, limestone, tower karst,
|
||
<geoCoordinate direction="north" orientation="latitude" precision="15" value="16.52861">16°31'43"N</geoCoordinate>
|
||
,
|
||
<geoCoordinate direction="east" orientation="longitude" precision="15" value="97.717224">97°43'02"E</geoCoordinate>
|
||
, 26.11.2015; 1 juv. (MNHN, MY15-15/07), same State, Nathack Gu Cave (Two Level Cave), limestone, tower karst,
|
||
<geoCoordinate direction="north" orientation="latitude" precision="1" value="16.525972">16°31'33.5"N</geoCoordinate>
|
||
,
|
||
<geoCoordinate direction="east" orientation="longitude" precision="1" value="97.713554">97°42'48.8"E</geoCoordinate>
|
||
, 26.11.2015, all leg. F.
|
||
<normalizedToken originalValue="Bréhier">Brehier</normalizedToken>
|
||
.
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subSubSection>
|
||
<subSubSection pageId="0" pageNumber="55" type="etymology">
|
||
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="55">Etymology.</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="55">To emphasize the finger-shaped apicomesal coxoternal processes (acp) of the anterior gonopodal coxosternum; adjective.</paragraph>
|
||
</subSubSection>
|
||
<subSubSection pageId="0" pageNumber="55" type="diagnosis">
|
||
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="55">Diagnosis.</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="55">
|
||
This new species is apparently most similar to
|
||
<taxonomicName lsidName="P. antiquior" pageId="0" pageNumber="55" rank="species" species="antiquior">P. antiquior</taxonomicName>
|
||
Golovatch, Geoffroy,
|
||
<normalizedToken originalValue="Mauriès">Mauries</normalizedToken>
|
||
& VandenSpiegel, 2011, from a cave in Kanchanaburi Province, Thailand (
|
||
<bibRefCitation author="Golovatch, SI" journalOrPublisher="Zootaxa" pageId="0" pageNumber="55" pagination="1 - 63" title="The millipede genus Plusioglyphiulus Silvestri, 1923 in Thailand (Diplopoda, Spirostreptida, Cambalopsidae)." volume="2940" year="2011">Golovatch et al. 2011</bibRefCitation>
|
||
), in sharing the special the carinotaxic formulae of the collum and postcollum rings (Fig. 2
|
||
<normalizedToken originalValue="A–C">A-C</normalizedToken>
|
||
, H, I, N, O), ♂ legs 1 with a short central hook (Figs 3A, B, 4C), ♂ legs 2 with modestly enlarged telopodites (Figs 3D, 4D), coupled with the simple plate-like anterior gonopods (Figs 3G, H, 4G), the complex posterior gonopods in which the coxites are densely setose paramedially and each supplied with an evident fovea, and the telopodites are evident and digitiform (Figs 3K, L, 4H, I). However, the new species differs from
|
||
<taxonomicName lsidName="P. antiquior" pageId="0" pageNumber="55" rank="species" species="antiquior">P. antiquior</taxonomicName>
|
||
in the more clearly divided crests on metaterga, the lateral ones being somewhat higher, coupled with the 3-segmented telopodites of ♂ legs 1, the anterior gonopodal coxosternum showing higher and nearly straight apicomesal coxoternal processes (acp) and very evident basolateral coxosternal processes (bcp), as well as the higher and acuminate anterior coxal processes (ap) of the posterior gonopods, the
|
||
<normalizedToken originalValue="latter’s">latter's</normalizedToken>
|
||
telopodite (te) demonstrating an apical fovea that bears a group of microsetae at the bottom (Figs 3K, L, 4H, I).
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subSubSection>
|
||
<subSubSection pageId="0" pageNumber="55" type="description">
|
||
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="55">Description.</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="55">Length of holotype ca. 18 mm; adult paratypes 12-27 (♂) or 13-29 mm (♀); midbody segments circular in cross-section (Fig. 2K), width in holotype 0.9 mm; paratypes 0.8-1.0 (♂, ♀).</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="55">Colouration of live animals light red-brown (Fig. 1) with lighter anterior and posterior parts of body; antennae, venter and legs light yellowish; coloration in alcohol, after two years of preservation, uniformly light red brownish to dark castaneous brown, dorsal crests and porosteles usually dark brownish. Antennae and venter yellow brownish to brownish. Ommatidia brown to blackish.</paragraph>
|
||
<caption pageId="0" pageNumber="55">
|
||
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="55">
|
||
Figure 1.
|
||
<taxonomicName class="Diplopoda" family="Cambalopsidae" genus="Plusioglyphiulus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Plusioglyphiulus digitiformis" order="Spirostreptida" pageId="0" pageNumber="55" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="digitiformis">Plusioglyphiulus digitiformis</taxonomicName>
|
||
sp. n., A, B, ♀ paratype from Parpant area, live animal. Pictures by R. Srisonchai, not to scale.
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</caption>
|
||
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="55">
|
||
Adult body with 46p+3a+T (holotype); paratypes with 37
|
||
<normalizedToken originalValue="–60p+1–">-60p+1-</normalizedToken>
|
||
4a+T (♂) or 36
|
||
<normalizedToken originalValue="–66p+1–">-66p+1-</normalizedToken>
|
||
4a+T (♀). Eye patches transversely ovoid, with 3+(1-2) blackish, rather flat ommatidia in 1-2 longitudinal rows. Antennae short and clavate (Figs 1, 2A, 2B, 2D, 2E, 4A), extending behind ring 4 laterally, antennomeres 5 and 6 each with a small apicodorsal field or corolla of bacilliform sensilla (Figs 2E, 4A). Gnathochilarium oligotrichous, each lamella lingualis with 3-4 setae; mentum undivided (Fig. 4B).
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="55">
|
||
In width, collum = midbody rings (close to 13th to 15th)> head = ring 4> 10> 9> 8> 7> 6> 4 = 5> 2> 3; body abruptly tapering towards telson on a few posteriormost rings (Fig. 2
|
||
<normalizedToken originalValue="N–P">N-P</normalizedToken>
|
||
). Postcollar constriction evident due to only a moderately enlarged collum (Fig. 2B, C).
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<caption pageId="0" pageNumber="55">
|
||
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="55">
|
||
Figure 2.
|
||
<taxonomicName class="Diplopoda" family="Cambalopsidae" genus="Plusioglyphiulus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Plusioglyphiulus digitiformis" order="Spirostreptida" pageId="0" pageNumber="55" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="digitiformis">Plusioglyphiulus digitiformis</taxonomicName>
|
||
sp. n.,
|
||
<normalizedToken originalValue="A–C">A-C</normalizedToken>
|
||
, F,
|
||
<normalizedToken originalValue="H–J">H-J</normalizedToken>
|
||
, L, M ♀ paratype from Parpant area D, E, G, K,
|
||
<normalizedToken originalValue="N–P">N-P</normalizedToken>
|
||
♂ paratype from Parpant area. A, B anterior part of body, lateral and dorsal views, respectively C collum and body ring 2, dorsal view D head, ventral view E anterior part of antenna, lateral view F second body crest, dorsal view G bacilliform sensilla on antennomere 5, lateral view H, I midbody rings, lateral and dorsal views, respectively J porostele, lateral view K cross-section of a midbody segment L midbody crests, dorsal view M midbody prozona, dorsal view
|
||
<normalizedToken originalValue="N–P">N-P</normalizedToken>
|
||
posterior part of body, lateral, dorsal and ventral views, respectively.
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</caption>
|
||
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="55">
|
||
Collum with 6+6 longitudinal crests starting from anterior edge, carinotaxic formula of collum, 1+2p+3+4p/t+5p/t+pp+/ma (Fig. 2
|
||
<normalizedToken originalValue="A–C">A-C</normalizedToken>
|
||
).
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="55">
|
||
Following metaterga similarly strongly crested (Figs 1, 2
|
||
<normalizedToken originalValue="A–C">A-C</normalizedToken>
|
||
, H, I, L, N, O), especially so from ring 5 onwards, whence porosteles commence, these tubercles clearly reduced on legless segments where ozopores are missing (Fig. 2N). Porosteles large, high, conical, round, directed caudolaterad, wider than high (Fig. 2J); ozoporiferous crests distinctly divided into two about midway, their anterior halves being higher (Fig. 2A, B, C, H, I, L, N, O). Carinotaxic formulae of metaterga 2-4, 2+2/2+M+2/2+2 (Fig. 2A, B); usual formula of following metaterga, 2/2+I/i+3/3+I/i+2/2 (Fig. 2A, B, H, I, L, N, O); all crests and tubercles low.
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="55">Tegument delicately alveolate-areolate (Fig. 2B, H, I, L, M, N, O), dull throughout. Fine longitudinal striations in front of stricture between pro- and metazonae, remaining surface of prozonae very delicately shagreened (Fig. 2F, L). Metatergal setae absent. Segments 2 and 3 each with long pleural flaps.</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="55">Limbus extremely finely and more or less regularly denticulate.</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="55">
|
||
Epiproct (Fig. 2
|
||
<normalizedToken originalValue="N–P">N-P</normalizedToken>
|
||
) broadly rounded apically, with 1+1 paramedian tubercles at midway. Paraprocts rather clearly flattened, each with a faint premarginal sulcus medially (Fig. 2P). Hypoproct emarginated at caudal margin (Fig. 2P)
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="55">Ventral flaps behind gonopod aperture on ♂ segment 7 barely distinguishable as low swellings, forming no marked transverse ridge.</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="55">Legs nearly as long as body diameter (Fig. 2K), claw at base with a strong accessory claw almost half as long as claw itself (Fig. 4F).</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="55">♂ legs 1 with an unusually short, central hook and relatively strongly reduced, 3-segmented telopodites (Figs 3A, B, 4C), each with a small and sharp claw (Fig. 3C).</paragraph>
|
||
<caption pageId="0" pageNumber="55">
|
||
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="55">
|
||
Figure 3.
|
||
<taxonomicName class="Diplopoda" family="Cambalopsidae" genus="Plusioglyphiulus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Plusioglyphiulus digitiformis" order="Spirostreptida" pageId="0" pageNumber="55" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="digitiformis">Plusioglyphiulus digitiformis</taxonomicName>
|
||
sp. n., ♂ paratype from Parpant area. A, B ♂ legs 1, caudal and anterior views, respectively C claw of ♂ leg 1, anterior view D ♂ legs 2, caudal view E, F ♂ legs 3, anterior and caudal views, respectively G, H anterior gonopods, anterior and caudal views, respectively I microsetae on top of coxal processes of anterior gonopods, caudal view K, L posterior gonopods, caudal and anterior views, respectively J tip of telopodite of posterior gonopod, caudal view M setose lobe on telopodite of posterior gonopod, anterior view.
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</caption>
|
||
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="55">♂ legs 2 clearly enlarged, with high and large coxae; telopodites hirsute on anterior face; penes broad, oblong-subtrapeziform, fused at base, each with 3-4 strong setae distolaterally (Figs 3D, 4D).</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="55">♂ legs 3 modified in having coxae especially slender and elongate, but with somewhat shortened telopodites (Figs 3E, F, 4E).</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="55">
|
||
Anterior gonopods (Figs 3
|
||
<normalizedToken originalValue="G–I">G-I</normalizedToken>
|
||
, 4G) with a typical shield-like coxosternum, the latter modestly setose on caudal face and provided with a concave notch separating a pair of high, nearly straight, terminally rounded, apicomesal, coxosternal processes (acp) and a much lower basolateral coxosternal processes (bcp), these being rounded at tip; telopodite (te) typical, rather stout, movable, 1-segmented, lateral in position, with several strong apical setae and a field of small microsetae at base, slightly longer than adjacent bcp.
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="55">
|
||
Posterior gonopods (Figs 3
|
||
<normalizedToken originalValue="J–M">J-M</normalizedToken>
|
||
, 4H, I) highly compact, contiguous basally until about midheight; each with a densely setose paramedian coxal process (pp) (Fig. 3M) and with two higher central pieces: anterior coxal process (ap) elongate, distally represented by an acuminate lamina; caudal coxal process (cp) subtriangular, membranous, rounded at tip; each telopodite (te) vase-shaped, with a compact group of coniform microsetae placed at bottom of an apical fovea (Fig. 3J), with another, parabasal field of microsetae on anterior face (Figs 3L, 4H, I).
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<caption pageId="0" pageNumber="55">
|
||
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="55">
|
||
Figure 4.
|
||
<taxonomicName class="Diplopoda" family="Cambalopsidae" genus="Plusioglyphiulus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Plusioglyphiulus digitiformis" order="Spirostreptida" pageId="0" pageNumber="55" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="digitiformis">Plusioglyphiulus digitiformis</taxonomicName>
|
||
sp. n., A, B ♂ paratype from Mondawa Gu Cave
|
||
<normalizedToken originalValue="C–H">C-H</normalizedToken>
|
||
♂ paratype from Parpent Cave n°2. A antenna, lateral view B gnathochilarium, ventral view C legs 1, anterior view D legs 2, caudal view E legs 3, caudal view F midbody leg, anterior view G anterior gonopods, caudal view H, I posterior gonopods, caudal and anterior views, respectively. Abbreviations: acp apiconmesal coxoternal process bcp basolateral coxosternal process te telopodites ap anterior coxal processes cp caual coxal processes pp paramedian coxal processes. Scale bars: 0.2 mm.
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</caption>
|
||
</subSubSection>
|
||
<subSubSection pageId="0" pageNumber="55" type="remarks">
|
||
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="55">Remarks.</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="55">
|
||
The genus
|
||
<taxonomicName class="Diplopoda" family="Cambalopsidae" genus="Plusioglyphiulus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Plusioglyphiulus" order="Spirostreptida" pageId="0" pageNumber="55" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Plusioglyphiulus</taxonomicName>
|
||
Silvestri, 1923 has recently been reviewed (
|
||
<bibRefCitation author="Golovatch, SI" journalOrPublisher="Zoosystema" pageId="0" pageNumber="55" pagination="71 - 116" title="Review of the millipede genus Plusioglyphiulus Silvestri, 1923, with descriptions of new species from Southeast Asia (Diplopoda, Spirostreptida, Cambalopsidae)." url="http://dx.doi.org/10.5252/z2009n1a5" volume="31" year="2009">Golovatch et al. 2009</bibRefCitation>
|
||
,
|
||
<bibRefCitation author="Golovatch, SI" journalOrPublisher="Zootaxa" pageId="0" pageNumber="55" pagination="1 - 63" title="The millipede genus Plusioglyphiulus Silvestri, 1923 in Thailand (Diplopoda, Spirostreptida, Cambalopsidae)." volume="2940" year="2011">2011</bibRefCitation>
|
||
) and shown to comprise 27 species ranging from northern Thailand and Laos in the west to Borneo in the east and southeast. This new species is the first
|
||
<taxonomicName class="Diplopoda" family="Cambalopsidae" genus="Plusioglyphiulus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Plusioglyphiulus" order="Spirostreptida" pageId="0" pageNumber="55" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Plusioglyphiulus</taxonomicName>
|
||
to be recorded from Myanmar. Based on the pigmented body and eye patches, and like most if not all other cave-dwelling congeners known to date,
|
||
<taxonomicName lsidName="P. digitiformis" pageId="0" pageNumber="55" rank="species" species="digitiformis">P. digitiformis</taxonomicName>
|
||
sp. n. seems to be hardly more than a troglophile.
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="55">
|
||
Most species of this genus show particularly enlarged colla with the tergal crests both on the collum and following segments being clearly divided transversely into three parts. Only two species,
|
||
<taxonomicName lsidName="P. antiquior" pageId="0" pageNumber="55" rank="species" species="antiquior">P. antiquior</taxonomicName>
|
||
and
|
||
<taxonomicName lsidName="P. panhai" pageId="0" pageNumber="55" rank="species" species="panhai">P. panhai</taxonomicName>
|
||
Golovatch, Geoffroy,
|
||
<normalizedToken originalValue="Mauriès">Mauries</normalizedToken>
|
||
& VandenSpiegel, 2011, both from caves in Thailand and both found quite close to the frontier to Myanmar, are remarkable in still showing the pattern of carinotaxy observed in the genus
|
||
<taxonomicName class="Diplopoda" family="Cambalopsidae" genus="Glyphiulus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Glyphiulus" order="Spirostreptida" pageId="0" pageNumber="55" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Glyphiulus</taxonomicName>
|
||
Gervais, 1847 (
|
||
<bibRefCitation author="Golovatch, SI" journalOrPublisher="Zootaxa" pageId="0" pageNumber="55" pagination="1 - 63" title="The millipede genus Plusioglyphiulus Silvestri, 1923 in Thailand (Diplopoda, Spirostreptida, Cambalopsidae)." volume="2940" year="2011">Golovatch et al. 2011</bibRefCitation>
|
||
).
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="55">
|
||
In particular, while their gonopods are relatively complex and unequivocally the same as in typical
|
||
<taxonomicName class="Diplopoda" family="Cambalopsidae" genus="Plusioglyphiulus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Plusioglyphiulus" order="Spirostreptida" pageId="0" pageNumber="55" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Plusioglyphiulus</taxonomicName>
|
||
, the carinotaxic pattern is simple and typical of
|
||
<taxonomicName class="Diplopoda" family="Cambalopsidae" genus="Glyphiulus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Glyphiulus" order="Spirostreptida" pageId="0" pageNumber="55" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Glyphiulus</taxonomicName>
|
||
, i.e., the crests on their colla and following metaterga are divided transversely into two, not three, parts. In this respect,
|
||
<taxonomicName lsidName="P. digitiformis" pageId="0" pageNumber="55" rank="species" species="digitiformis">P. digitiformis</taxonomicName>
|
||
sp. n. clearly joins the above duet, showing the closest similarities, both morphologically and geographically, to
|
||
<taxonomicName lsidName="P. antiquior" pageId="0" pageNumber="55" rank="species" species="antiquior">P. antiquior</taxonomicName>
|
||
.
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="55">Non-type material shows all characters of the type series, but their localities lie very far from the others (ca. 470 km) (Fig. 8). We hope that future molecular studies will answer the question of the conspecificity (or not) of all above populations.</paragraph>
|
||
<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="55">
|
||
Interestingly, the famous Burmese amber, 99-100 Mya, appears to contain a typical
|
||
<taxonomicName class="Diplopoda" family="Cambalopsidae" genus="Plusioglyphiulus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Plusioglyphiulus" order="Spirostreptida" pageId="0" pageNumber="55" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Plusioglyphiulus</taxonomicName>
|
||
yet to be described (Wesener in litt.). This is evidence both of the very old age of this genus and its long presence in situ.
|
||
</paragraph>
|
||
</subSubSection>
|
||
</treatment>
|
||
</document> |