Genus, Silvestri, 1896

Enghoff, Henrik, 2022, A mountain of millipedes X: Species of Pyrgodesmidae and Cryptodesmidae in the Udzungwa Mountains, Tanzania (Diplopoda, Polydesmida), European Journal of Taxonomy 845, pp. 66-100 : 84

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5852/ejt.2022.845.1955

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:CC9F793D-5AD6-4D7C-A25C-7B2C58CAB4C0

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7271380

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03AA87BF-FFBB-C96F-FD23-FC778A834B0A

treatment provided by

Felipe

scientific name

Genus
status

 

Genus View in CoL ? species?

Material examined

TANZANIA • 1 ♀; Morogoro Region, Udzungwa Mountains Natl Park, Mito Mitatu ; 07°50′29.1″ S, 36°51′33.0″ E; 1006 m a.s.l.; 26 Sep. 2014; J. Malumbres-Olarte leg.; Plot 14, pitfall trap; NHMD 621847 GoogleMaps .

Descriptive notes

SIZE. Female: Length 5.8 mm; maximal body width (across metazona) 0.80 mm; 18 podous + 1 apodous ring + telson.

OTHER CHARACTERS. A “stylodesmiform” pyrgodesmid sensu Mauriès & Maurin (1981), with deep-set horizontal, non-lobed paraterga and rows of large tubercles/crests on metazonae; not incrusted.

Remarks

In the absence of a male this specimen cannot even be referred to a genus. Cryptocorypha geminiramus sp. nov. was found in the same pitfall trap.

GBIF Dataset (for parent article) Darwin Core Archive (for parent article) View in SIBiLS Plain XML RDF