Antipustia, 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 : 14

Genus Antipustia gen. nov.

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Type species

Antipustia hoteldolichoiuli gen. et sp. nov.

Other included species

None.

Diagnosis

Differs from other genera of Prionopetalini by the combination of an angled gonopod coxa with a stout lateral spine and a stout, U-shaped metaplical spine, a moderately extended torsotope, a post-torsal spine, a taeniate telomere, a slender solenomere as long as the telomere and mostly concealed within it, and a strongly striated limbus partially divided into shallow lobes.

Etymology

The genus name (gender feminine) is an anagram of Patinatius and refers to the striate limbus which somewhat resembles that of the genus Patinatius Attems, 1926 ( Kraus 1966: figs 215, 219, 223, 226, 229, 237).

Remarks

In the key to genera of “ Odontopyginae ” of Kraus (1966), the new genus runs to Patinatiopsis , but differs in having a post-torsal spine and a less compact telomere. If the other alternative of the limbus character in couplet 7 of this key is chosen, the new genus runs all the way through the remaining key to Odontopyge or Patinatius , cf. Enghoff (2016a). The extended torsotope is shared with Calyptomastix Hoffman & Howell, 2012 , but in the latter genus, the torsotope extension is more pronounced, and the solenomere is completely hidden with a compact telomere. Many characters, including the structure of the limbus, are also shared with Aptyctosmilax gen. nov., but in the latter genus, the gonopod coxa is not angled and has no lateral spine, the telomere is much longer and forms a complete coil, and there is a very long basal solenomeral spine which is absent in Antipustia gen. nov. (or maybe replaced by the short, stout basal telomeral spine).