Siphonotidae, Cook, 1895

Anilkumar, Pooja Avinipully, Wesener, Thomas & Moritz, Leif, 2022, First record of the order Polyzoniida from the Indian subcontinent with an integrative description of a new genus (Diplopoda, Colobognatha, Siphonotidae), Zootaxa 5182 (5), pp. 401-428 : 421

Other Siphonotidae spp. from India.

Material examined. 1 F ( ZFMK-MYR 9495 ) Pambadum Shola National Park , Munnar , Idukki District, Province Kerala, India, 10º07’35.4”N, 77º15’26.9”E, 1914 m, high altitude montane forest, hand collection, leg. A. A. Pooja, K. S. Nafin, P. P. Sudhin, 26 Mar 2019 ; 1 F ( ZFMK-MYR 9517 ), India, Province Kerala, Idukki District , Munnar , Annamudi Shola National Park, Mannavan Shola, 10º10’54.5” N, 77º11’25.8”E, 2140 m, high altitude montane forest, hand collection, leg. A. A. Pooja, K. S. Nafin, K. Ullas, 19 Nov 2019 .

Remarks. The studied material can be placed in the family Siphonotidae on the basis of the following characters: Modification on the coxae of leg pair 2; narrow, completely fused preanal ring; tarsal claw with paronychium (compare Hoffman 1977; Enghoff et al. 2015; Shear 2016). Because the material consists of female specimens, which lack sufficient gonopod characters, and no genetic data are available, we refrain from describing these specimens as a new species.