Eviulisoma biquintum, Enghoff, 2018

Enghoff, Henrik, 2018, A mountain of millipedes VII: The genus Eviulisoma Silvestri, 1910, in the Udzungwa Mountains, Tanzania, and related species from other Eastern Arc Mountains. With notes on Eoseviulisoma Brolemann, 1920, and Suohelisoma Hoffman, 1963 (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Paradoxosomatidae), European Journal of Taxonomy 445, pp. 1-90 : 72-74

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5852/ejt.2018.445

publication LSID

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5681630

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/0B213B4D-8455-4489-B253-13B7769E1611

taxon LSID

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scientific name

Eviulisoma biquintum
status

sp. nov.

Eviulisoma biquintum View in CoL sp. nov.

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Figs 3C View Fig. 3 , 35 View Fig. 35 , 39C View Fig. 39

Diagnosis

Differs from all other species of Eviulisoma by having two knobs on sternum 5, one between coxae 4

and one between coxae 6. Differs from most species of Eviulisoma by lacking an excavation of sternum 6.

Etymology

The name is composed of the Latin bi, meaning ʻtwoʼ, and quintum, meaning ʻfifthʼ, and refers to the two knobs on sternum 5.

Material studied (total: 3 ♂♂)

Holotype

TANZANIA: ♂, Iringa Region, Iringa District, Nyambanike Mts, Udekwa Village , Ukami Forest , 7°42′49″ S, 36°25′15″ E, Jul.–Nov. 1994, David Moyer leg. ( ZMUC). GoogleMaps

Paratypes

TANZANIA: 1 ♂, Iringa District, Mwanihana FR, Uzungwa Mts, Sanje River valley near Sanje Falls , 3000 ft a.s.l., 23 Nov. 1979, W.A. Rodgers and K.H. Bulstrode leg. (VMNH); GoogleMaps 1 ♂, Morogoro Region, Udzungwa Mts National Park , Mito Mitatu , Plot MM 1, 07°50′16.3″ S, 36°50′44.6″ E, 800 m a.s.l., 22 Mar. 2013, hand collected, T. Pape and N. Scharff leg. (ZMUC). GoogleMaps

Description (male)

SIZE. Length 19–24 mm, max. width 2.0– 2.4 mm.

COLOUR. Specimen from Mito Mitatu after 4 years in alcohol with entire body deep black, except for amber-coloured sternal regions and contrastingly white legs ( Fig. 3C View Fig. 3 ). Specimen from Udekwa Village (holotype): after 23 years in alcohol head reddish brown; antennae, collum, metazonites and telson dark brown; prozonites and legs yellowish. Specimen from Mwanihana FR overall pallid after 38 years in alcohol, only metazonites dorsally very light brownish.

ANTENNAE. Reaching back to ring 4 or 5.

BODY RINGS. Paranota represented by very indistinct keels on body ring 2 (as Fig. 4C View Fig. 4 ), otherwise completely absent. Stricture between pro- and metazonite smooth. No setae seen on post-collar metazonites (abraded?).

HYPOPROCT. Semicircular, no marginal tubercles.

LEGS. Length 1.5 × body width. Relative lengths of podomeres: tarsus (>) femur> tibia (>) prefemur (>) postfemur. Scopulae poorly developed, only on tibia and tarsus, absent from posteriormost leg pairs.

STERNUM 5. With two small median knobs, one between legs 4, one between legs 5.

STERNUM 6. Not excavated, coxae more separated than on normal body rings.

GONOPODS ( Fig. 35 View Fig. 35 ). Coxal lobe (cxl) moderate, irregular, not evenly rounded. Prefemoral part (prf) ca 0.4× as long as acropodite. Mesal acropodital process (map) long, narrow, straight sides tapering

towards tip, apically regularly rounded, dorsally concave, forming gutter for solenophore. Solenophore (sph) slender, simple, a little longer than map, apically with two slender processes.

Distribution and habitat

Known from two parts of the Udzungwa Mts: Udzungwa Mountains National Park (incl. Mwanihana FR) and Nyambanike Mts in West Kilombero Scarp FR.

Remarks

The newly collected specimen from the Udzungwa National Park is strikingly coloured – black body and white legs ( Fig. 3C View Fig. 3 ) – whereas the one from Nyambenike seems to be less remarkable in this respect. Fading with age of the specimen may explain the difference, but more specimens from each of these sites would be highly desirable in order to ascertain whether we are really dealing with only one species.

The gonopods resemble those of E. taitaorum VandenSpiegel & Golovatch, 2014 , and E. taita VandenSpiegel & Golovatch, 2014 . These two species, however, have an excavated sternum 6, and E. taitaorum lacks a lobe on sternum 5. No other species has two processes behind each other on sternum 5, according to available descriptions.

ZMUC

Zoological Museum, University of Copenhagen

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