Chaleponcus soerensenae, Enghoff, 2022

Enghoff, Henrik, 2022, Mountains of millipedes. The family Odontopygidae in the Eastern Arc Mountains of Tanzania (Diplopoda, Spirostreptida), European Journal of Taxonomy 803, pp. 1-136 : 54-57

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5852/ejt.2022.803.1691

publication LSID

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6373820

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/26C4F108-3B05-41CC-97B5-065209EC6CA9

taxon LSID

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scientific name

Chaleponcus soerensenae
status

sp. nov.

Chaleponcus soerensenae View in CoL sp. nov.

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Figs 34–36 View Fig View Fig View Fig

Diagnosis

Differs from all other species of Chaleponcus except C. schioetzae sp. nov. by the large metaplical palette. Differs from C. schioetzae sp. nov. by having a latero-posterior coxal spine.

Etymology

After Line Sørensen, Danish zoologist, author of a Tanzanian millipede species ( Sørensen 1997) and collector of several of the odotopygids described in the present paper.

Material examined (total 1 ♂)

Holotype TANZANIA • ♂; Morogoro Region, Morogoro District; Ruvu FR ; 06°53′–07°02′ S, 37°49′–37°54′ E; 200–400 m a.s.l.; Sep. 2000; Nike Doggart leg.; lowland forest; Uluguru Mountains Biodiversity Conservation Project; NHMD 621735 . GoogleMaps

Description (male)

SIZE. Length 50 mm, diameter 3.3 mm, 56 podous rings, no apodous rings in front of telson.

COLOUR. After 18 years in alcohol somewhat faded. Head, collum and antennae black, except white antennomeres 6–7. Legs pale yellowish. Body rings: prozonites pale yellow, anterior ⅔ of metazonites black, posterior ⅓ amber. Telson black. No traces of dorsal light stripe.

SUPRALABRAL SETAE. Indistinct.

MANDIBULAR STIPES. Distal margin of stipes almost straight, only very shallowly bilobed.

ANAL VALVES. With strong dorsal spine/hook, no ventral ‘corner’, free margins raised, each with three sessile setae.

LIMBUS ( Fig. 35F View Fig ). Weakly striate, with cellular structure, margin completely straight, no lobes.

LEGS. Postfemoral and tibial pads well-developed from leg-pair 4 until ca ring 15, then becoming smaller and eventually disappearing.

FIRST PAIR OF LEGS ( Fig. 34A–C View Fig ). Prefemoral lobes relatively long, slender-triangular in ventral view. Four to five coxosternal setae (CXS) close to lateral margin of coxosternum, well separated from prefemoral lobes. Prefemora with two long mesapical setae (APS), a few shorter setae (ss) just basal to APS and a scattering of peglike sensilla (LPS) over most of ventral side of lobe Femora apparently more densely setose than in most other odontopygids.

STERNUM 9 ( Fig. 34D View Fig ). Pentagonal with parallel side margins (‘house-shaped’). GONOPOD COXA ( Fig. 35A–E View Fig ). With a slender shaft with a slightly convex lateral margin; apically strongly expanded, roughly triangular; with a short latero-posterior spine (lcs) a little distal to mid-length. Proplica (PP) with straight mesal margin, ending in small proplical lobe (PPL). Metaplica (MP) basally with a poorly delimited flange (MF), apically with a very large mesal palette (mpa) with irregularly undulate margin, in posterior view with rounded-triangular lobe (ml).

GONOPOD TELOPODITE ( Fig. 36 View Fig ). Arculus 90°. Torsotope (TT) moderately compact, no post-torsal spine. Post-torsal narrowing (PN) not very pronounded. Solenomere (SLM) very long, much longer than telomere, whiplike, with several coils, tip simple, without a proximal spine. Telomere (TM) basally narrow, shortly after separation from solenomere expanded into very complicated folded sheet with a small basal, triangular lobe (tml1) on anterior side, a simple apical (ventral) lobe (tml3) overlying a smaller, simple lobe (tml2), and a large distal, irregularly circular domed lobe (tml4) with a broad, rounded distal (ventral) incision.

Distribution and habitat

Known only from lowland forest in the Ruvu FR in the Uluguru Mts, altitude 200–400 m a.s.l.

Remarks

See under C. schioetzae sp. nov.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Diplopoda

Order

Spirostreptida

Family

Odontopygidae

SubFamily

Archepyginae

Tribe

Prionopetalini

Genus

Chaleponcus

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