@article {1356, title = {Taxonomic review of the millipede genus Haematotropis Jeekel, 2000 (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Aphelidesmidae, Aphelidesminae) with descriptions of thirteen new species}, journal = {Zootaxa}, volume = {5064}, year = {2021}, month = {08/11/2021}, pages = {1-71}, type = {Monograph}, abstract = {

The northern South American genus Haematotropis Jeekel, 2000 is shown to presently encompass 21 species, all duly redescribed, illustrated, keyed, and mapped, including 13 new species: H. amazonica sp. nov. (Amazonas, Brazil), H. aripuanensis sp. nov. (Mato Grosso, Brazil), H. callyi sp. nov. (French Guiana), H. dentata sp. nov. (Maranh\ão, Brazil), H. disjunctoides sp. nov. (Par\á, Brazil), H. goeldii sp. nov. (Par\á, Brazil), H. jurutiensis sp. nov. (Par\á, Brazil), H. driki sp. nov. (Amazonas, Brazil), H. melgacensis sp. nov. (Par\á, Brazil), H. mosaica sp. nov. (Par\á, Brazil), H. paraensis sp. nov. (Par\á, Brazil), H. poranga sp. nov. (Par\á, Brazil) and H. tysoni sp. nov. (Amazonas, Brazil). New characters are used in all descriptions and redescriptions. Aphelidesmus guianensis Chamberlin, 1923, the type species of Ochrotropis Jeekel, 2000, is a new junior synonym of Aphelidesmus divergens Chamberlin, 1918, comb. nov. ex Ochrotropis in Haematotropis.

}, keywords = {Aphelidesmus, key, map, Myriapoda, Neotropical Regi{\'o}n, Taxonomy}, issn = {1175-5326}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5064.1.1}, url = {https://mapress.com/zt/article/view/zootaxa.5064.1.1}, author = {Almeida, Tha{\'\i}s and Bueno-Villegas, Juli{\'a}n and Rafael, Jos{\'e}} } @article {1333, title = {The millipede family Diplomaragnidae Attems, 1907 in the Asian part of Russia, with the descriptions of two new genera and seven new species (Diplopoda, Chordeumatida)}, journal = {Zootaxa}, volume = {5060}, year = {2021}, month = {28/10/2021}, pages = {1-44}, abstract = {

The family Diplomaragnidae Attems, 1907 of the Asian part of Russia is reviewed and shown to comprise 11 genera and 60 species + 1 dubious species. Two genera and seven species are described here as new to science: Alineuma gen. nov., with type species A. rodionovi sp. nov. and Litovkia gen. nov., with the type species L. anisimovka sp. nov., Diplomaragna budilovi sp. nov., Diplomaragna dentifer sp. nov., Pacifiosoma shabalini sp. nov., Pacifiosoma acutum sp. nov., Pacifiosoma triangulatum sp. nov. Pacifiosoma asperum Mikhaljova, 2016 is recorded from the Primorsky Krai for the first time. Five genera are endemic to the Asian part of Russia. At the species level, the rate of endemism amounts to 91.7\%. A key is given to all species of Diplomaragnidae presently known from Siberia and the Russian Far East. The distributions of the region\’s diplomaragnids are discussed. Taxonomic remarks are provided for many species. \ 

}, keywords = {distribution, key, millipede, new genus, new species, Russian Far East, Siberia, Taxonomy}, issn = {1175-5334, 1175-5326}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5060.1.1}, url = {https://mapress.com/zt/article/view/zootaxa.5060.1.1}, author = {Mikhaljova, Elena V.} } @article {1150, title = {A contribution to the centipede fauna of Venezuela (Chilopoda: Scolopendromorpha)}, journal = {Zootaxa}, volume = {3821}, year = {2014}, month = {20/06/2014}, pages = {151-192}, abstract = {

The descriptions of twelve Venezuelan Scolopendromorpha, a list of species, identification key and detailed list of localities are presented. Cryptops (C.) venezuelae Chamberlin, 1939, known only from the holotype has been re-described and Scolopendra conjungens Muralewicz, 1913 reduced to a junior synonym of Scolopendra angulata Newport, 1844 syn. nov.

}, keywords = {key, list of species, new synapomorphy, new synonym, re-descriptions, Scolopendromorpha, Venezuela}, issn = {1175-5326}, doi = {10.11646/zootaxa.3821.2.1}, url = {https://www.biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.3821.2.1}, author = {Schileyko, Arkady A.} } @article {921, title = {New data on the scutigeromorph and scolopendromorph centipedes (Chilopoda: Scutigeromorpha: Scutigeridae; Scolopendromorpha: Scolopendridae, Cryptopidae) from Kazakhstan}, journal = {Arthropoda Selecta}, volume = {29}, year = {2020}, month = {19/06/2020}, pages = {173-184}, abstract = {

The scutigeromorph fauna of Kazakhstan comprises at least three species in three genera in one family, while the scolopendromorph one consists of three species in two genera in two families. The family Cryptopidae, the genus Cryptops, and the species C. doriae Pocock, 1891 and C. hortensis (Donovan, 1810) are new to the Kazakhstan list, while C. doriae in also new to the entire Palaearctic. Scolopendra canidens Newport, 1844 is new to Kazakhstan\’s Kyzylorda and Turkestan regions, while Scutigera coleoptrata (Linnaeus, 1758) to the Akmola Region. Some morphological characters of scolopendromorph species are discussed and illustrated. An identification key to the scutigeromorph and scolopendromorph centipedes of Kazakhstan is given. All records are mapped.

}, keywords = {Central Asia, key, new faunistic records, ключ, новые фаунистические находки, Центральная Азия}, issn = {0136-006X}, doi = {10.15298/arthsel.29.2.02}, url = {https://kmkjournals.com/journals/AS/AS_Index_Volumes/AS_29/AS_29_2_173_184}, author = {Yurii V. Dyachkov} } @article {893, title = {A mountain of millipedes IX: Species of the family Gomphodesmidae from the Udzungwa Mountains, Tanzania (Diplopoda, Polydesmida)}, journal = {European Journal of Taxonomy}, year = {2020}, month = {29/06/2020}, pages = {1-35}, abstract = {

A new genus and six new species of the family Gomphodesmidae from the Udzungwa Mts are described, including Pogoro alopias Rosenmejer \& Enghoff sp. nov., Pogoro siren Rosenmejer \& Enghoff sp. nov., Pogoropsis prolixopes Rosenmejer \& Enghoff gen. et sp. nov., Emphysemastix frampt Olsen \& Enghoff sp. nov., Agrophogonus hamulus Olsen \& Enghoff sp. nov., and Agrophogonus pusillokiellandi Olsen \& Enghoff sp. nov. Emphysemastix dracarys Olsen \& Enghoff sp. nov. from Iringa city is described. Descriptive notes are given for Pogoro scharffi Hoffman, 2005, and Agrophogonus mwanihana Hoffmann, 2005. General gomphodesmid gonopod morphology is described and illustrated. A key to Udzungwa gomphodesmids is presented, as well as revised keys to all species of Emphysemastix and Agrophogonus. All gomphodesmid species from the Udzungwa Mts are mapped.

}, keywords = {Eastern Arc Mountains, key, new species, Taxonomy}, issn = {2118-9773}, doi = {10.5852/ejt.2020.675}, url = {https://europeanjournaloftaxonomy.eu/index.php/ejt/article/view/1005}, author = {Olsen, Sissel Anna and Rosenmejer, Trine and Enghoff, Henrik} } @article {882, title = {Heth pivari n. sp. (Nematoda: Ransomnematoidea: Hethidae) from the indigenous North American millipede Narceus gordanus (Spirobolida: Spirobolidae), with keys for worldwide Heth spp.}, journal = {Zootaxa}, volume = {4861}, year = {2020}, month = {20/10/2020}, pages = {486-514}, abstract = {

Forty-four specimens of the millipede Narceus gordanus Chamberlin, 1943 (Spirobolida: Spirobolidae) were collected from Alachua, Citrus, Hernando, and Marion counties in peninsular Florida. Morphometric data were recorded for each. Nematodes were dissected from the intestine of each individual and sorted into morphotaxa. Heth pivari n. sp. (Oxyuridomorpha: Ransomnematoidea: Hethidae) was found in 33 (75\%) of dissected N. gordanus and examined with brightfield, differential interference contrast, phase contrast and scanning electron microscopies. LSU rDNA sequences of representative males and females of H. pivari n. sp. were analyzed and compared to sequences of nematodes in the infraorder Rhigonematomorpha. Heth mauriesi, an introduced species, also was sequenced. Females of H. pivari n. sp. differ from those of other Heth spp. in having smooth, button-like somatic and cervical papillae and shallow, shield-like cervical collars. Males have slit-like or narrowed, rather than circular, stomal openings. Heth pivari n. sp. is the first species of this genus found in an indigenous millipede north of Mexico. Keys based on female cervical ornamentation are provided to differentiate the 52 known Heth spp.

}, keywords = {28S rDNA, biogeography, commensalism, Diplopoda, Heth mauriesi, key, molecular analysis, Nematoda, Taxonomy}, issn = {1175-5326}, doi = {10.11646/zootaxa.4861.4.2}, url = {https://www.biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.4861.4.2}, author = {Phillips, Gary and Moulton, John K. and Bernard, Ernest C.} } @article {879, title = {New data on the fauna of China, part II: the millipede genus Nepalmatoiulus Mauri{\`e}s, 1983 (Diplopoda, Julidae) in continental China and Taiwan, with descriptions of seven new species}, journal = {Zootaxa}, volume = {4852}, year = {2020}, month = {14/09/2020}, pages = {101-124}, abstract = {

Nepalmatoiulus is currently represented in continental China and Taiwan by twenty-five species. Seven new species of the genus are described from the China: Nepalmatoiulus lanpingensis sp. nov., Nepalmatoiulus uncinatus sp. nov., Nepalmatoiulus emarginatus sp. nov., Nepalmatoiulus deqenensis sp. nov., Nepalmatoiulus parvulus sp. nov., Nepalmatoiulus acutidentatus sp. nov., Nepalmatoiulus hexiensis sp. nov. Additional material for Nepalmatoiulus tianbaoshanensis Mikhaljova, 2020 is given. A key is given to all Nepalmatoiulus presently known from continental China and Taiwan Island. The distributions of Chinese and Taiwanese Nepalmatoiulus species are discussed. Taxonomic remarks are provided for nearly all new species.

}, keywords = {central and southern China, description, distribution, julid, key, new species, Taiwan, Taxonomy}, issn = {1175-5326}, doi = {10.11646/zootaxa.4852.1.5}, url = {https://www.biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.4852.1.5}, author = {Mikhaljova, Elena V.} } @article {521, title = {Colobognatha millipedes in the Caucasus (Diplopoda: Polyzoniida,~Platydesmida, Siphonocryptida).}, journal = {Zootaxa}, volume = {3972}, year = {2015}, month = {2015 Jun 11}, pages = {250-266}, abstract = {

The superorder Colobognatha is represented in the Caucasus by three genera and species, one each in the orders Polyzoniida, Platydesmida and Siphonocryptida. Hirudisoma roseum (Victor, 1839) (Hirudisomatidae, Polyzoniida) is especially widespread, ranging from S Russia, Abkhazia, Georgia (with a neotype designated and described from Kakhetia, E Georgia) and NW Azerbaijan to E Turkey, and also including H. ponticum (Lohmander, 1939) (junior subjective synonym, syn. nov.). Fioria hyrcana Golovatch, 1980 (Andrognathidae, Platydesmida) is endemic to the Hyrcanian parts of the Republic of Azerbaijan and NW Iran along the western and southern coasts of the Caspian Sea. Due to the finding of Hirudicryptus abchasicus sp. nov. (Siphonocryptidae, Siphonocryptida), from a single locality in Abkhazia, NW Caucasus, the order Siphonocryptida is new to the fauna of the region. A key to all four species of the trans-Palaearctic genus Hirudicryptus is given. All three Caucasian species of Colobognatha are described in due detail and abundantly illustrated, and their distributions mapped.

}, keywords = {Abkhazia, Azerbaijan, distribution, Georgia, Iran, key, map, neotype, new species, new synonymy, Platydesmida, Polyzoniida, Russia, Siphonocryptida, Taxonomy, Turkey}, issn = {1175-5326}, doi = {10.11646/zootaxa.3972.2.6}, author = {Sergei Ilyich Golovatch and Evsyukov, Aleksandr and Reip, Hans S} } @article {520, title = {The millipede family Polydesmidae in the Caucasus (Diplopoda: Polydesmida).}, journal = {Zootaxa}, volume = {4085}, year = {2016}, month = {2016 Mar 01}, pages = {1-51}, abstract = {

The family Polydesmidae is represented in the Caucasus by two genera and 11 species: Polydesmus abchasius Attems, 1898, P. lignaui Lohmander, 1936, P. muralewiczi Lohmander, 1936 and P. mediterraneus Daday, 1889 (all confined to the NW and W Caucasus, but of which only the former three are endemic to the region, whereas the latter species is an introduction), as well as Brachydesmus assimilis Lohmander, 1936 (endemic to most of the region, except Hyrcania), B. pigmentatus Attems, 1951 (= B. pereliae Golovatch, 1976, syn. n.) (subendemic to Hyrcania), B. superus Latzel, 1884 (a cosmopolitan introduction), B. furcatus Lohmander, 1936 (= B. furcatus exiguus Strasser, 1970, syn. n.) (endemic to the NW Caucasus), B. kalischewskyi Lignau, 1915 (= B. karawajewi Lohmander, 1928, = B. ferrugineus Lohmander, 1936, = B. talyschanus Lohmander, 1936, = B. bidentatus Golovatch, 1976, all syn. n.) (a highly polymorphous and widespread species, apparently in a stage of active speciation, subendemic to the entire region), B. kvavadzei sp. n., from Ajaria, Georgia, and B. simplex sp. n., from Abkhazia and Sochi, Krasnodar Province, Russia. All known Caucasian species of Polydesmidae are described in due detail, abundantly illustrated and keyed, and their distributions mapped.

}, keywords = {Abkhazia, Azerbaijan, distribution, Georgia, Iran, key, map, new species, new synonymy, Polydesmidae, polymorphism, Russia, Taxonomy, Turkey}, issn = {1175-5334}, doi = {10.11646/zootaxa.4085.1.1}, author = {Sergei Ilyich Golovatch and Evsyukov, Aleksandr and Reip, Hans} } @article {390, title = {The first representatives of the millipede family Glomeridellidae (Diplopoda, Glomerida) recorded from China and Indochina}, journal = {ZooKeys}, volume = {954}, year = {2020}, month = {29/07/2020}, pages = {1-15}, abstract = {

A new species of glomeridellid millipede is described from Guizhou Province, southern China: Tonkinomeris huzhengkuni sp. nov. This new epigean species differs very clearly in many structural details, being sufficiently distinct morphologically and disjunct geographically from T. napoensis Nguyen, Sierwald \& Marek, 2019, the type and sole species of Tonkinomeris Nguyen, Sierwald \& Marek, 2019, which was described recently from northern Vietnam. The genus Tonkinomeris is formally relegated from Glomeridae and assigned to the family Glomeridellidae, which has hitherto been considered strictly Euro-Mediterranean in distribution and is thus new to the diplopod faunas of China and Indochina. Tonkinomeris is re-diagnosed and shown to have perhaps the basalmost position in the family Glomeridellidae. Its relationships are discussed, both morphological and zoogeographical, within and outside the Glomeridellidae, which can now be considered as relict and basically Oriental in origin. Because of the still highly limited array of DNA-barcoding sequences of the COI mitochondrial gene available in the GenBank, the first molecular phylogenetic analysis of Glomerida attempted here shows our phylogram to be too deficient to consider meaningful.

}, keywords = {DNA barcode, Evolution, Glomeridella, key, molecular phylogram, new diagnosis, new species, new transfer, Tonkinomeris, Typhloglomeris, Vietnam, zoogeography}, issn = {1313-2989}, doi = {10.3897/zookeys.954.54694}, url = {https://zookeys.pensoft.net/article/54694/}, author = {Liu, Weixin and Sergei Ilyich Golovatch} } @article {359, title = {Two new species of the millipede genus Plusioglyphiulus Silvestri, 1923 from Cambodia (Diplopoda, Spirostreptida)}, journal = {ZooKeys}, volume = {938}, year = {2020}, month = {04/06/2020}, pages = {137-151}, abstract = {

Two new species of Plusioglyphiulus are described from southern Cambodia. Plusioglyphiulus biserratus sp. nov. is clearly distinguished from all congeners by the shape of the telopodites of the posterior gonopods which are distinctly serrate laterally and by the anterior gonopods showing only a pair of single, smooth and curved coxosternal processes. Plusioglyphiulus khmer sp. nov. is distinguished by having most crests on the collum being complete and male legs 1 showing long, prominent, one-segmented telopodites, coupled with the oblong-subtrapeziform, membranous, posterior gonopods with a small bifid process at about a third of the telopodite length. Notes on the variation of Plusioglyphiulus boutini Mauri\ès, 1970 are also given, including a colour photograph of fresh, live material. A key to all four species of Plusioglyphiulus currently known to occur in Cambodia is also presented.

}, keywords = {Cave, diplopod, forest, Indochina, key}, issn = {1313-2989}, doi = {10.3897/zookeys.938.51234}, url = {https://zookeys.pensoft.net/article/51234/}, author = {Likhitrakarn, Natdanai and Sergei Ilyich Golovatch and Thach, Phanara and Chhuoy, Samol and Ngor, Peng Bun and Srisonchai, Ruttapon and Sutcharit, Chirasak and Panha, Somsak} } @article {347, title = {Two new species of the genus Symphylella (Symphyla, Scolopendrellidae) from Tibet, China}, journal = {ZooKeys}, volume = {845}, year = {2019}, month = {15/05/2019}, pages = {99-117}, abstract = {

The Symphyla of Tibet are studied for the first time. Symphylella macropora sp. n. and Symphylella zhongi sp. n. from southeastern Tibet are described and illustrated. Symphylella macropora sp. n. is characterized by large, elongated oval openings of the T\öm\ösv\áry organ with its inner margins covered by minute irregular teeth, rudimentary spined sensory organs present on the dorsal side of most antennal segments, and cerci with numerous long and slightly curved setae. Symphylella zhongi sp. n. is characterized by a globular T\öm\ösv\áry organ with a small and roundish opening, mushroom-shaped sensory organs present on apical antennal segments, and by having tergal processes longer than their basal width with ovoid swollen ends. The newly described species are compared to the morphologically closest congeners: S. javanensis, S. asiatica, S. multisetosa, and S. simplex. A key for 43 species of the genus is also provided.

}, keywords = {chaetotaxy, key, Myriapoda, sensory organ, Taxonomy, T{\"o}m{\"o}sv{\'a}ry organ}, issn = {1313-2989}, doi = {10.3897/zookeys.845.33566}, url = {https://zookeys.pensoft.net/article/33566/}, author = {Jin, Ya-Li and Bu, Yun and Jiang, Yue} } @article {344, title = {The millipede tribe Leptoiulini in the Caucasus, with notes on its generic classification (Diplopoda: Julida: Julidae)}, journal = {Zootaxa}, volume = {4778}, year = {2020}, month = {05/2020}, pages = {237-280}, chapter = {237}, abstract = {

The generic classification of the Palaearctic tribe Leptoiulini is revised, with 11 genera being recognized. The main differences between the genera, all presented in a tabular form, lie in the structure of the 2nd and 7th leg-pairs of the male, coupled with gonopodal conformations: the presence/absence and the degree of development of flagella on the promeres, and of the phylacum and velum on the opisthomeres. Based on abundant new material, only three genera and seven species of Leptoiulini, all keyed, mapped and properly illustrated, are shown to occur in the Caucasus: Chatoleptophyllum flexum Golovatch, 1979, Kubaniulus gracilis Lohmander, 1936, K. lativelatus sp. nov., Leptoiulus hastatus Lohmander, 1932 (= L. disparatus Lohmander, 1936, syn. n.), L. tanymorphus (Attems, 1901), L. meskhii sp. nov., and L. gonopodialis sp. nov. All species are endemic or subendemic to the region, while Kubaniulus Lohmander, 1936 represents the only genus in the tribe which is restricted to the Caucasus, in particular, the western and central parts of the Caucasus Major. The distributions are mainly allopatric, but a few pairs of species are para- or even sympatric.

}, keywords = {Caucasus Major, Caucasus Minor, distribution patterns, faunistics, generic reclassification, key, new species}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4778.2.2}, url = {https://www.biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.4778.2.2}, author = {Evsyukov, Aleksandr P. and Sergei Ilyich Golovatch and Reip, Hans and Van den Spiegel, D.} } @article {294, title = {The millipede genus Globanus Attems, 1914, endemic to S{\~a}o Tom{\'e} and Pr{\'\i}ncipe, with the description of a new species (Diplopoda, Spirostreptida, Spirostreptidae)}, journal = {ZooKeys}, volume = {930}, year = {2020}, month = {28/04/2020}, pages = {61-74}, abstract = {

During a soil zoological expedition to S\ão Tom\é and Pr\íncipe in 2010 by the California Academy of Sciences, millipedes of the genus Globanus were collected. Samples of G. marginescaber (Karsch, 1884) and G. integer (Karsch, 1884) were recovered in addition to those containing a new species. Globanus drewesi sp. nov. is described and additional records, illustrations, and descriptive notes are given for the other two species. A key to all three species of the genus is provided, and a distribution map is presented. The monotypic genus Lobogonus Demange, 1971, which includes L. trilobatus Demange, 1971, from Sierra Leone, mainland western Africa, is revalidated and removed from synonymy under Globanus. Lobogonus is illustrated from a type specimen.

}, keywords = {Africa, Diplopoda, Gulf of Guinea, key, Lobogonus, Taxonomy}, issn = {1313-2989}, doi = {10.3897/zookeys.930.49236}, url = {https://zookeys.pensoft.net/article/49236/}, author = {VandenSpiegel, Didier and Shelley, Rowland M. and Sergei Ilyich Golovatch} } @article {214, title = {Occurrence of Millotellina (Myriapoda, Symphyla) in China with the description of two new species}, journal = {Zootaxa}, volume = {4691}, year = {2019}, month = {31/10/2019}, pages = {215-224}, abstract = {

The genus Millotellina is recorded from China for the first time. Two new species, Millotellina centralis sp. n. and Millotellina bambusinus sp. n., from Guangxi Province of Southwest China are described and illustrated. Millotellina centralis sp. n. is characterized by the presence of single median ventral processes posterior to the coxal sacs of legs 4\–10, half-way between successive pairs of legs and located in the center, and a thick frontal seta on the first leg. Millotellina bambusinus sp. n. is characterized by the single median ventral processes inserted between the coxal sacs of legs 5\–10, palp of the first maxilla with three pointed branches, and cerci narrowed abruptly in the distal part. An updated key to the species of the genus is also provided.

}, keywords = {Guangxi Province, key, median ventral processes, Myriapoda, new species, Soil fauna}, issn = {1175-5326}, doi = {10.11646/zootaxa.4691.3.2}, url = {https://www.biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.4691.3.2}, author = {Jin, Ya-Li and Bu, Yun} }