Pogoropsis prolixopes Rosenmejer & Enghoff, 2020

Olsen, Sissel Anna, Rosenmejer, Trine & Enghoff, Henrik, 2020, A mountain of millipedes IX: Species of the family Gomphodesmidae from the Udzungwa Mountains, Tanzania (Diplopoda, Polydesmida), European Journal of Taxonomy 675, pp. 1-35 : 16-18

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5852/ejt.2020.675

publication LSID

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4332933

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/D35FD14F-0709-4AF2-945F-AEDA96FF91E3

taxon LSID

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Valdenar

scientific name

Pogoropsis prolixopes Rosenmejer & Enghoff
status

gen. et sp. nov.

Pogoropsis prolixopes Rosenmejer & Enghoff View in CoL gen. et sp. nov.

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Figs 2 View Fig , 5D View Fig , 12–13 View Fig View Fig

Diagnosis

As for the genus. Differs conspicuously from other Udzungwan gomphodesmids species by the very long and slender gonopod telopodite.

Etymology

The name is a Latin noun in apposition meaning “long leg/foot” and refers to the unusually long gonopods.

Material examined

Holotype

TANZANIA • ♂; Iringa region /district, West Kilombero Scarp Forest ; 07°45′34.2″ S, 36°26′37.4″ E; 1510 m a.s.l.; 7 Dec. 2000; Frontier Tanzania UMBS leg.; open woodland, plot Acacia ; NHMD 621672 . GoogleMaps

Paratypes

TANZANIA • 19 ♂♂, 2 ♀♀; same collecting data as for holotype; NHMD 621673 GoogleMaps 1 ♂, 2 ♀♀, 2 juv.; Iringa region /district, West Kilombero Scarp Forest ; 07°53′19.5″ S, 36°23′11.6″ E; 1111 m a.s.l.; 23 Nov. 2000; Frontier Tanzania UMBS leg.; montane forest, plot 17, Ukami; NHMD 621685 GoogleMaps .

Description

Males

SIZE AND SHAPE. Body length ca 32–37 mm. Maximum width 6.0– 6.7 mm. W/L ratio 20%. Height of body ring eight 4.5 mm. H/W ratio= 68%.

COLOUR ( Fig. 12A View Fig ). Uniformly yellowish/light brown

STERNAL PROCESS ON BODY RING 6 ( Fig. 5D View Fig ). Longer than wide, triangular tip.

HYPOPROCT. Suboval in shape, without median projection ( Fig. 12C View Fig ). Paramedian tubercles of normal size, not projecting beyond edge of sclerite.

GONOPOD ( Fig. 13 View Fig ). Gonocoxa without paracannular setae. Telopodite mesonodal. Nodus with few small triangular processes. Process M thin, narrow at base, and closely following postnodal telopodite. Process L absent. Postnodal teleopodite relatively long, curved dorsomesad, closely following prefemoral region. Solenomere with triangular lobe, followed by longer and more slender triangular lobe. Apex thin and curved, projecting at right angles before end of solenomere.

Distribution

Known only from the type locality and one further site in the Udzungwa Mts, West Kilombero Scarp, montane forest and open woodland ( Fig. 2 View Fig ). The two sites are ca 12 km apart and are situated in different forested areas (cf. Frontier Tanzania 2001: 26, 174).

Remarks

The shape of the sternal process on the 6 th body ring is more similar to that seen in species of the genus Ngurubates Hoffman, 2005 , than to that of species of Pogoro . In the key to genera of Gomphodesmini, Hoffman (2005) actually uses this character to distinguish between Pogoro and Ngurubates . After examining both genus descriptions, however, it became clear that Pogoropsis prolixopes gen. et sp. nov. fits into neither of these genera. Ngurubates species have subonychial pads only on legs 1–5 ( Pogoro : 1–6), and ventral tubercles on anterior legs are present ( Pogoro : absent). Almost all characteristics of the new species fit Pogoro . The only differences from the Pogoro species description are the absence of paracannular setae, the absence of gonopodal process L and in particular the very elongated, hairpinbent gonopod telopodite.

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