Two new species of the millipede genus Desmoxytes Chamberlin, 1923 (Diplopoda: Polydesmida: Paradoxosomatidae) from caves in southern China

Author

Sergei I. Golovatch
Jean-Jacques Geoffroy
Jean-Paul Mauries

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Publication Date

January 2010

Abstract

Two new parapatric species of Desmoxytes are described from caves in a karst area in Guangxi Province, southern China: D. scutigeroides sp.n. and D. scolopendroides sp.n. Both are possibly troglobites, this being especially true of D. scutigeroides sp.n., in which the legs, antennae and paratergal spines are particularly long, the body is loose while the tegument often pallid. Both the species differ well from each other and the remaining, known congeners, all in Southeast Asia and southern China, chiefly by the length of the legs and antennae, as well as in certain details of tergal and male leg ornamentation, and in gonopod structure.

Keywords

Desmoxytes, New Species, Cave, China

Document Type

Article

Notes

Arthropoda Selecta, Vol. 19, no. 2 (2010).

Identifier

SFS0069627_00001

Recommended Citation

Golovatch, Sergei I.; Geoffroy, Jean-Jacques; and Mauries, Jean-Paul, "Two new species of the millipede genus Desmoxytes Chamberlin, 1923 (Diplopoda: Polydesmida: Paradoxosomatidae) from caves in southern China" (2010). KIP Articles. 5539.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/kip_articles/5539