| Publication Type: | Journal Article |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Authors: | A. D. Nguyen, Nguyen, S. G., Eguchi, K. |
| Journal: | Zootaxa |
| Volume: | 4927 |
| Issue: | 2 |
| Pagination: | 257-264 |
| Date Published: | 12/02/2021 |
| ISSN: | 1175-5326 |
| Keywords: | COI, generic distance, new species, phylogeny, Taxonomy, Vietnam |
| Abstract: | A new pill millipede, Rhopalomeris nagao sp. nov., is described from Vietnam. It is recognized by the following combination of characters: antennal tip with numerous sensory cones; telopods with short prefemoral and femoral trichosteles, with long, straight and acute tuberculiform femoral process, and with shorter lobuliform tibial process; syncoxial lobe being slightly concave medially, syncoxial horns being longer than lobe. A fragment of the cytochrome c oxidase subunit I (COI) gene is also provided for the new species. The K2P genetic distance of the COI between the new species and other Vietnamese glomeridans is from 10.7% to 16.9%. Two genera, Hyperglomeris and Hyleoglomeris, are considered to be non-monophyletic, but more data and samples will be needed for confirmation. |
| URL: | https://www.biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.4927.2.5 |
| DOI: | 10.11646/zootaxa.4927.2.5 |
| Citation Key: | 1051 |
| Refereed Designation: | Refereed |