@article {1784, title = {Redescription of the giant Southeast Asian millipede Spirobolus macrurus Pocock, 1893 and its assignment to the new genus Macrurobolus gen. nov. (Diplopoda, Spirobolida, Pachybolidae)}, journal = {ZooKeys}, volume = {1087}, year = {2022}, month = {22/02/2022}, pages = {1-18}, type = {Research Article}, abstract = {

A new genus of the millipede family Pachybolidae from Southeast Asia is described: Macrurobolus gen. nov., with Spirobolus macrurus Pocock, 1893 as type species. This latter species is DNA barcoded (COI) and redescribed based on male morphological characters, which hitherto were unknown. The new genus differs from other pachybolid genera by having (1) the preanal ring process long and protruding beyond the anal valves and (2) the anterior gonopod telopodite distally abruptly narrowed, forming an extremely long, slender, elevated process curved caudad. Given that Macrurobolus gen. nov. is a monotypic genus, it is aphyletic and thus requires further taxonomic revision.

}, keywords = {Aphyly, Myanmar, Taxonomy, Thailand}, issn = {1313-2970, 1313-2989}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1087.71280}, url = {https://zookeys.pensoft.net/article/71280/}, author = {Pimvichai, Piyatida and Enghoff, Henrik and Backeljau, Thierry} } @article {923, title = {On the collections of Indo-Australian Spirobolida (Diplopoda) kept in the Zoological Museum of the Moscow State University, Russia. 1. A new species of Arisemolus Hoffman, 1980 from Papua New Guinea}, journal = {Arthropoda Selecta}, volume = {29}, year = {2020}, month = {30/09/2020}, pages = {309-315}, abstract = {

Abstract: Arisemolus kurtschevae sp.n. is described as the first species of the genus to be reported from mainland (and inland) Papua New Guinea. The new species differs from all three other accepted congeners that range from the Mariana and Caroline islands in Micronesia, through the Bismarck Archipelago and Vanuatu in Melanesia, to western New Guinea, Indonesia, primarily by certain details of gonopodal structure, in particular the considerably longer/higher sternite of the anterior gonopods and the shape of the distal part of the posterior gonopods. New illustrations are provided for both A. tamicus (Attems, 1914) (the type species) and A. ralumensis obscuratus (Attems, 1914), the latter being formally synonymized with A. ralumensis ralumensis, syn.n. Lectotype designation is made for A. tamicus.

РЕЗЮМЕ. Описан новый вид Arisemolus kurtschevae sp.n., первый представитель рода из материковой (и внутренней) части Папуа \– Новой Гвинеи. Новый вид отличается от остальных трех принятых видов и распространенных от Марианских и Каролинских островов в Микронезии, архипелагов Бисмарка и Вануату в Меланезии до западной части Новой Гвинеи (Индонезия), прежде всего, определенными деталями строения гоноподов, в особенности значительно более длинным/высоким стернитом передних гоноподов и формой дистальной части задних гоноподов. Представлены новые иллюстрации как для A. tamicus (Attems, 1914) (типовой вид), так и для A. ralumensis obscuratus (Attems, 1914), притом последний подвид формально сведен в синонимы к A. ralumensis ralumensis, syn.n. Для A. tamicus установлен лектотип.

}, keywords = {millipede, New Guinea, new species, Pachybolidae, Taxonomy, двупарноногие многоножки, Новая Гвинея, новый вид, таксономия}, issn = {0136-006X}, doi = {10.15298/arthsel.29.3.02}, url = {https://kmkjournals.com/journals/AS/AS_Index_Volumes/AS_29/AS_29_3_309_315}, author = {Sergei Ilyich Golovatch and Mauri{\`e}s, Jean-Paul and Akkari, Nesrine} } @article {898, title = {Pachybolini {\textendash} a tribe of giant Afrotropical millipedes: arguments for monophyly and the description of a new genus from Madagascar (Diplopoda: Spirobolida: Pachybolidae)}, journal = {Invertebrate Systematics}, volume = {22}, year = {2008}, month = {18/03/2008}, pages = {37-53}, abstract = {

Madabolus, gen. nov. is described to accommodate M. maximus, sp. nov. (type species) from several localities in western Madagascar. A phylogenetic analysis of 26 spirobolidan taxa, based on morphological characters, places Madabolus, gen. nov. with the Afrotropical genera Pelmatojulus de Saussure, 1860; Pachybolus Cook, 1897; Hadrobolus Cook, 1897 and Epibolus Cook, 1897. The tribe Pachybolini is proposed to include Madabolus, gen. nov. and the four abovementioned genera. Putative autapomorphies of Pachybolini are: a closed incisura lateralis; setae of gnathochilarial lamella lingualis apical; vulva kidney- or crescent-shaped, with valves meeting in a sinuous fissure and crest protruding. Within Pachybolini, Pelmatojulus (West Africa) stands out by virtue of an increased number of apical antennal sensory cones, with great probability an apomorphy. Madabolus, gen. nov. and east African genera of the tribe share another potential synapomorphy, namely, an increased number of setae on the gnathochilarial lamellae linguales. Other Malagasy genera of Pachybolidae do not seem to be related to Afrotropical genera.

}, keywords = {biogeography, Madabolus, morphology, phylogeny, Taxonomy}, issn = {1445-5226}, doi = {10.1071/IS07008}, url = {http://www.publish.csiro.au/?paper=IS07008}, author = {Wesener, Thomas and Enghoff, Henrik and W{\"a}gele, Johann-Wolfgang} }