Kronopolites formosanus (Verhoeff, 1939)

Likhitrakarn, Natdanai, Golovatch, Sergei I. & Panha, Somsak, 2015, Review of the millipede genus Kronopolites Attems, 1914 (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Paradoxosomatidae), with the description of a new species from Laos, ZooKeys 472, pp. 27-41 : 29

Taxon classification Animalia Polydesmida Paradoxosomatidae

Kronopolites formosanus (Verhoeff, 1939)

Kronopolites (Parakansupus) formosanus Verhoeff 1939: 273 (D).

Kronopolites formosanus - Attems 1940: 540 (D); Takashima 1950: 38 (R); Chamberlin and Wang 1953: 5 (R); Wang 1964: 69 (M); Takakuwa 1954: 31 (D); Hoffman 1963: 585 (D); Jeekel 1968: 71 (M); Golovatch 1983b: 298 (M); 2009: 121 (D); Chen et al. 2006: 259 (D); Nguyen and Sierwald 2013: 1287 (M).

Kronopolites ralphi Wang 1957: 106 (D), synonymized by Hoffman (1963: 585).

Kronopolites ralphi - Wang 1958: 342 (R); 1964: 69 (M).

Remarks.

This species had been erroneously listed as a synonym of Kronopolites swinhoei by Wang and Mauriès (1996: 86) and by Korsós (2004: 23) until these mistakes were corrected by Chen et al. (2006). In fact, Kronopolites formosanus is endemic to northern Taiwan ( Verhoeff 1939, Chamberlin and Wang 1953, Wang 1957), occurring below 1000 m a.s.l.: FuShan Botanical Garden, 726 m a.s.l., Ulai, Taipei County; Yang Ming Shan National Park, ca. 750 m a.s.l., near YuYouRen Tomb, Taipei City, Taiwan ( Chen et al. 2006).