Annamina mikhaljovae, Golovatch, Sergei I., Geoffroy, Jean-Jacques & Akkari, Nesrine, 2017

Golovatch, Sergei I., Geoffroy, Jean-Jacques & Akkari, Nesrine, 2017, Revision of the Vietnamese millipede genus Annamina Attems, 1937, with descriptions of three new species (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Paradoxosomatidae), ZooKeys 669, pp. 1-18 : 4-6

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https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.669.12561

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scientific name

Annamina mikhaljovae
status

sp. n.

Annamina mikhaljovae View in CoL sp. n. Figs 10, 11

Type material.

Holotype ♂, ZMUM ρ 3551, Vietnam, Kon Tum Prov., Kon Plong Distr., N14°43.450', E108°18.882', 1000-1260 m a.s.l., tropical forest, on log, V.2015, leg. I.I. Semenyuk.

Name.

Honours Elena Mikhaljova, a prominent specialist in the systematics of Asian Diplopoda.

Diagnosis.

Differs from other species of the genus primarily by the presence of a small ventral lobule and a large mesal lobe on the gonopod femorite, coupled with, much like in A. irinae sp. n., a small, simple, mesal process, a similarly short, but spiniform, clearly serrate lateral process and a prominent, lobe-shaped, apical process in the postfemoral portion of the gonopod. See also Key below.

Description.

Measurements (mm): Length ca 22 mm, width of midbody pro- and metazonae 1.8 and 2.7 mm, respectively. Coloration uniformly light brownish to yellow-brown, only antennomeres 6 and 7 contrasting dark brown; tegument largely thin and translucent (Fig. 10).

All characters (see Figs 10, 11) as in A. xanthoptera , except as follows.

In width, collum = 3 = 4 <segment 2 <head <5-16 (♂); thereafter body gradually tapering towards telson. Caudolateral corner of paraterga subrectangular until segment 8, thereafter increasingly well drawn caudad, but always remaining narrowly rounded, clearly projecting behind rear tergal margin only on segments 17-19 (Fig. 10).

Gonopods (Figs 10D, 11) much as in A. irinae sp. n.; femorite (fe) with a distinct, papillate, parabasal, mesal lobe (ml), a small, subtriangular, midway, hyaline, ventral lobe (vl); postfemoral part lying beyond a distinct sulcus (su) with a short flagelliform solenomere (sl), a similarly short, slender, slightly curved, mesal process (mp), a short tooth (t) (= solenophore) subtending the basal portion of sl, a prominent, membranous, distally faintly serrate, lobe-shaped, laterad curved, acuminate, apical process (a), and a shorter, spiniform, slearly serrate, lateral process (lp).