@article {935, title = {Three new cavernicolous species and three new records of the millipede genus Pacidesmus from southern China (Diplopoda: Polydesmida: Polydesmidae)}, journal = {The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology Supplement}, volume = {35}, year = {2020}, month = {31/03/2020}, pages = {78-87}, abstract = {

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.

}, keywords = {Cave, new record, new species, Pacidesmus, southern China, subterranean biology}, issn = {021-2445}, doi = {10.26107/RBZ-2020-0040}, url = {https://lkcnhm.nus.edu.sg/app/uploads/2020/03/s35rbz78-87.pdf}, author = {Liu, Weixin and Sergei Ilyich Golovatch} } @article {888, title = {A molecular-based phylogeny of the millipede genus Sphaerobelum Verhoeff, 1924, with the first record of the genus from mainland China (Diplopoda: Sphaerotheriida: Zephroniidae)}, journal = {Annales de la Soci{\'e}t{\'e} entomologique de France (N.S.)}, volume = {56}, year = {2020}, month = {09/09/2020}, pages = {341-348}, abstract = {

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.

Phylog\énie mol\éculaire du genre de mille-pattes Sphaerobelum Verhoeff, 1924, avec la premi\ère mention du genre en Chine continentale (Diplopoda: Sphaerotheriida: Zephroniidae)

R\ésum\é: Une nouvelle esp\èce de mille-pattes g\éant de la province du Guizhou (sud de la Chine), est d\écrite et illustr\ée: Sphaerobelum huzhengkuni n. sp. Il s\’agit du premier signalement du genre Sphaerobelum en Chine. Une analyse phylog\én\étique mol\éculaire de ce genre est \également fournie sur la base de la portion du g\ène mitochondrial COI du code-barres ADN.

}, keywords = {China, DNA barcode, new species, Sphaerobelum}, issn = {0037-9271}, doi = {10.1080/00379271.2020.1811153}, url = {https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00379271.2020.1811153}, author = {Zhao, Yi and Yu, Jinyong and Liu, Weixin} } @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 {288, title = {Diversity, distribution patterns, and fauno-genesis of the millipedes (Diplopoda) of mainland China}, journal = {ZooKeys}, volume = {930}, year = {2020}, month = {28/04/2020}, pages = {153 - 198}, abstract = {

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.

}, keywords = {continental China, Diplopod fauna, zoogeography}, issn = {1313-2989}, doi = {10.3897/zookeys.930.47513}, url = {https://zookeys.pensoft.net/article/47513/}, author = {Sergei Ilyich Golovatch and Liu, Weixin} } @article {213, title = {Two new species and a new record of polydesmoid millipedes from Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, eastern China (Diplopoda, Polydesmida)}, journal = {Zootaxa}, volume = {4722}, year = {2020}, month = {10/01/2020}, pages = {41-49}, abstract = {

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..

}, keywords = {Epanerchodus, Myriapoda, new record, new species, Niponia, Taxonomy}, issn = {1175-5326}, doi = {10.11646/zootaxa.4722.1.3}, url = {https://www.biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.4722.1.3}, author = {Liu, Weixin and Huo, Qingbo} }