Orthomorpha tuberculifera, Likhitrakarn, Natdanai, Golovatch, Sergei I. & Panha, Somsak, 2011

Likhitrakarn, Natdanai, Golovatch, Sergei I. & Panha, Somsak, 2011, Revision of the Southeast Asian millipede genus Orthomorpha Bollman, 1893, with the proposal of a new genus (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Paradoxosomatidae), ZooKeys 131, pp. 1-161 : 23-24

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.131.1921

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scientific name

Orthomorpha tuberculifera
status

sp. n., variety from Khao Wong Phrachan Temple

Orthomorpha tuberculifera sp. n., variety from Khao Wong Phrachan Temple Figs 1618

Description.

Length 22-30 mm (♂), 24-31 mm (♀), width of midbody pro- and metazona 2.6-2.9 and 3.9-4.2 mm (♂), 2.8-3.3 and 4.0-4.3 mm (♀), respectively. Colour pattern same as in the type series of Orthomorpha tuberculifera sp. n., but coloration of alcohol material darker, blackish.

All other characters as in the typical Orthomorpha tuberculifera sp. n. (Figs 16-18), except as follows.

Venter and legs sometimes as pallid as paraterga and epiproct. Paraterga slightly less prominent, narrower (Fig. 16A, C & F). Pattern of setigerous tubercles in caudal row on metatergum 17 sometimes as 4+3, on metatergum 18 as 4+4. Paraterga 2 sometimes with four small indentations on one side, with three ones on the other. Surface below paraterga microgranulate and faintly rugulose.