Aquattuor aff. claudiahempae, Enghoff & Frederiksen, 2015

Enghoff, Henrik & Frederiksen, Sara B., 2015, A mountain of millipedes II: The genus Aquattuor Frederiksen, 2013 - five new species from the Udzungwa Mountains and one from Mt. Kilimanjaro, Tanzania (Diplopoda, Spirostreptida, Odontopygidae), European Journal of Taxonomy 150, pp. 1-25 : 19

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5852/ejt.2015.150

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:D546A676-35F8-4025-8660-F123A0BA67F7

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3793775

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03A487F2-FFEB-FFAC-756B-6AB29465B6C2

treatment provided by

Carolina

scientific name

Aquattuor aff. claudiahempae
status

sp. nov.

Aquattuor aff. claudiahempae View in CoL sp. nov.

Material studied (total: 1 ♂)

TANZANIA: 1 ♂, Morogoro Region, Kilosa District, Rubeho Mts, 5 km SW of Madizini, 900 m asl, 10–24 Sep. 1983, M. Andersen leg. ( ZMUC).

Remarks

Diameter 1.68 mm, 49 podous rings. Colouration faded. Apart from its larger diameter, this specimen looks completely like A. claudiahempae sp. nov., despite the 350 km distance between the two sites (cf. Discussion).

ZMUC

Zoological Museum, University of Copenhagen

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Diplopoda

Order

Spirostreptida

Family

Odontopygidae

SubFamily

Archepyginae

Tribe

Prionopetalini

Genus

Aquattuor

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