01445nas a2200229 4500008004100000022001300041245015800054210006900212260001500281300001000296490000700306520069100313653000901004653001501013653001601028653001501044653001901059653002501078100001601103700003001119856006601149 2020 eng d a021-244500aThree new cavernicolous species and three new records of the millipede genus Pacidesmus from southern China (Diplopoda: Polydesmida: Polydesmidae)0 aThree new cavernicolous species and three new records of the mil c31/03/2020 a78-870 v353 a

Three new species of Pacidesmus are described from caves in southern China: P. whitteni, new species, from Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, P. trilobatus, new species, and P. uncatus, new species, the latter two from Yunnan Province. The three new species differ from the most similar congeners mainly in certain details of gonopodal structure. Additional records of P. bifidus, P. martensi and P. sinensis are also presented. The genus is thus composed of a single high-montane forest-dwelling species in northern Thailand at present, as well as another 11 species, all presumed troglobionts from southern China.

10aCave10anew record10anew species10aPacidesmus10asouthern China10asubterranean biology1 aLiu, Weixin1 aGolovatch, Sergei, Ilyich uhttps://lkcnhm.nus.edu.sg/app/uploads/2020/03/s35rbz78-87.pdf01853nas a2200217 4500008004100000022001400041245018900055210006900244260001500313300001200328490000700340520111300347653001001460653001601470653001601486653001701502100001301519700001601532700001601548856007101564 2020 eng d a0037-927100aA molecular-based phylogeny of the millipede genus Sphaerobelum Verhoeff, 1924, with the first record of the genus from mainland China (Diplopoda: Sphaerotheriida: Zephroniidae)0 amolecularbased phylogeny of the millipede genus iSphaerobelumi V c09/09/2020 a341-3480 v563 a

Summary: A new species of giant pill-millipede is described and illustrated from Guizhou Provinces, southern China: Sphaerobelum huzhengkuni n. sp. This is the first record of the genus Sphaerobelum in China. A molecular phylogenetic analysis of this genus is also provided based on DNA-barcoding of the COI mitochondrial gene.

Phylogénie moléculaire du genre de mille-pattes Sphaerobelum Verhoeff, 1924, avec la première mention du genre en Chine continentale (Diplopoda: Sphaerotheriida: Zephroniidae)

Résumé: Une nouvelle espèce de mille-pattes géant de la province du Guizhou (sud de la Chine), est décrite et illustrée: Sphaerobelum huzhengkuni n. sp. Il s’agit du premier signalement du genre Sphaerobelum en Chine. Une analyse phylogénétique moléculaire de ce genre est également fournie sur la base de la portion du gène mitochondrial COI du code-barres ADN.

10aChina10aDNA barcode10anew species10aSphaerobelum1 aZhao, Yi1 aYu, Jinyong1 aLiu, Weixin uhttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00379271.2020.181115303234nas a2200301 4500008004100000022001400041245012700055210006900182260001500251300000900266490000800275520236100283653001602644653001402660653001702674653000802691653002402699653001802723653001602741653001702757653001702774653001902791653001202810653001702822100001602839700003002855856004702885 2020 eng d a1313-298900aThe first representatives of the millipede family Glomeridellidae (Diplopoda, Glomerida) recorded from China and Indochina0 afirst representatives of the millipede family Glomeridellidae Di c29/07/2020 a1-150 v9543 a

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.

 

10aDNA barcode10aEvolution10aGlomeridella10akey10amolecular phylogram10anew diagnosis10anew species10anew transfer10aTonkinomeris10aTyphloglomeris10aVietnam10azoogeography1 aLiu, Weixin1 aGolovatch, Sergei, Ilyich uhttps://zookeys.pensoft.net/article/54694/02657nas a2200193 4500008004100000022001400041245010400055210006900159260001500228300001400243490000800257520204700265653002202312653001902334653001702353100003002370700001602400856004702416 2020 eng d a1313-298900aDiversity, distribution patterns, and fauno-genesis of the millipedes (Diplopoda) of mainland China0 aDiversity distribution patterns and faunogenesis of the milliped c28/04/2020 a153 - 1980 v9303 a

Based on all available information, 339 species from 71 genera, 26 families, and eleven orders of Diplopoda have hitherto been recorded from mainland China, the fauna thus being very rich, albeit far from completely known, comprising various zoogeographic elements and populating very different environments. Diplopods mainly occur in various woodlands, in caves, and high in the mountains. Most species (> 90 %, usually highly localised, including 160 cavernicoles), 18 genera, and one family are strictly endemic to continental China. Mapping not only the horizontal, but also the vertical distributions of Diplopoda in China shows the bulk of the fauna to be expectedly restricted to forested lowland and mountain biomes or their remnants. Yet some Chordeumatida, Callipodida, Polydesmida, Julida, and even Spirobolida seem to occur only in the subalpine to alpine environments and thus may provisionally be considered as truly high-montane. The long-acknowledged notions of China being a great biogeographic zone transitional between the Palaearctic and Oriental regions generally find good support in millipede distributions, in particular at the higher taxonomic levels (generic, familial, and ordinal). While the Palaearctic/Holarctic components expectedly dominate the fauna of the northern parts of the country, the Oriental ones prevail in its south and along the Pacific coast. Both realms are increasingly mixed and intermingled towards China’s centre. However, in addition to the above traditional views, based on distribution patterns alone, southern China seems to harbour a rather small, but highly peculiar faunal nucleus or origin centre of its own, whence Himalaya, Myanmar, Thailand, Indochina and/or Taiwan could have become populated by younger lineages. The millipede fauna of continental China is thus a tangled mixture of zoogeographic elements of various origins and ages, both relict and more advanced. The few anthropochores must have been the latest faunal “layer” to populate China.

10acontinental China10aDiplopod fauna10azoogeography1 aGolovatch, Sergei, Ilyich1 aLiu, Weixin uhttps://zookeys.pensoft.net/article/47513/01044nas a2200229 4500008004100000022001400041245013900055210006900194260001500263300001000278490000900288520033200297653001700629653001400646653001500660653001600675653001200691653001300703100001600716700001600732856006600748 2020 eng d a1175-532600aTwo new species and a new record of polydesmoid millipedes from Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, eastern China (Diplopoda, Polydesmida)0 aTwo new species and a new record of polydesmoid millipedes from  c10/01/2020 a41-490 v47223 a

The millipede, Niponia nodulosa Verhoeff, 1931 is recorded from Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, eastern China, for the first time. Two new species of the genus Epanerchodus Attems, 1901 are described from the Jiangzhe Area: Epanerchodus campus n. sp. and Epanerchodus bishou n. sp..

10aEpanerchodus10aMyriapoda10anew record10anew species10aNiponia10aTaxonomy1 aLiu, Weixin1 aHuo, Qingbo uhttps://www.biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.4722.1.3