Polydesmus haroi Mauries & Vicente, 1977

Djursvoll, Per, 2019, Two new species of Polydesmus Latreille, 1802 / 1803 from northern Spain with reinstatements of two species, and a key to the Iberian Polydesmus species (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Polydesmidae), ZooKeys 888, pp. 51-65 : 51

Polydesmus haroi Mauries & Vicente, 1977 Fig. 20

Polydesmus haroi Mauriès & Vicente, 1977: 530.

Polydesmus (Hormobrachium) haroi Vicente, 1979: 23.

Propolydesmus haroi ( Mauriès & Vicente, 1977): Enghoff and Golovatch (2003: 82), Kime and Enghoff (2011: 69), Djursvoll and Melic (2015: 8).

Notes.

The species was figured and described in detail by Mauriès and Vicente (1977) based on material collected at Lago de Sanabria in Zamora province, with the main characters being the gonopod with two main gonopodal branches, exomere and endomere, and the seminal groove and solenophore-pulvillus extended onto endomere. These two characters differ from Propolydesmus but are in accordance with and support a phylogenetic relationship with the genus Polydesmus Latreille, 1802/03, and its type species Polydesmus complanatus Linnaeus, 1761.

It has similarities with P. asturiensis sp. nov. and P. biscayensis sp. nov. but differ in having a shorter exomere, the solenophore-pulvillus placed dorsally on the endomere and directed towards the exomere ( Fig. 20 ), a wider space between the endomere and exomere, and in having a larger body size (length 17 mm). Propolydesmus haroi is here transferred back to Polydesmus .

Figures

Figures 17 - 20. 17 Propolydesmus laevidentatus (Loksa, 1967), from Madeira, right gonopod, medial view (ZMBN-ENT-PDESMID- 342) 18 Propolydesmus laevidentatus (Loksa, 1967), from Madeira, right gonopod, lateral view (ZMBN-ENT-PDESMID- 342) 19 P. racovitzai (Brolemann, 1910) right gonopod, lateral view (MNCN 20.07 / 1435) 20 P. haroi (Mauries & Vicente, 1977) gonopod, redrawn after Mauries and Vicente (1977).