Last. Petra Sierwald(FMNH: Field Museum of Natural History)H-Index: 18
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Johann Carl described 390 species or subspecies of millipedes during his long career at the Museum d'histoire naturelle de Geneve, studying specimens collected on his own expeditions and on those of other, mainly Swiss, naturalists. The type specimens deposited in Geneva are enumerated, and the type specimens that could be located in other collections in other museums are reported. Lectotypes are designated for 17 species: Brachyspirobolus aequatorialis (Carl, 1909), Carlopeltis alatus (Carl, 19...
#2Weixin Liu(SCAU: South China Agricultural University)H-Index: 6
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 st...
#1Anh Nguyen(VAST: Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology)H-Index: 60
#1Anh D. Nguyen(VAST: Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology)H-Index: 4
Last. Anh D. Nguyen(VAST: Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology)H-Index: 5
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ABSTRACTA second Vietnamorpha species is described from Pu Mat National Park, north-central Vietnam. The new species is distinguished by the gonopod femorite being erect and cylindrically elongate; and the solenomere being completely sheathed by the solenophore, and being only exposed at the tip. The relationship between Vietnamorpha and several sulciferinine genera was analysed using a combination of a mitochondrial gene (16S rRNA) and two nuclear genes (18S and 28S rRNA). The genus Vietnamorph...
This paper describes a new species of the millipede genus Streptogonopus Attems, 1914, Streptogonopus montanus sp. n. from Vietnam, the first record of Streptogonopus in Vietnam. The new species is characterised by the solenophore completely sheathing the solenomere, both coiled twice, and the solenophore with a small spine at its middle. The species was found at ca. 1,800-2,100 m on Ngoc Linh Mountain. This first record for the genus in the Indochina peninsula has expanded its distributional ra...
This review lists the currently known species of millepedes in Sri Lanka and discusses their current taxonomic status and distribution based on previous studies from 1865 to date. A total of 104 millipede species belonging to 44 genera, 18 families and nine orders have been recorded in Sri Lanka. Of these, 82 are known only from Sri Lanka; additionally, nine genera and one family are known only from Sri Lanka. Most of the millipede species have been recorded from two localities, namely Pundaluoy...
This contribution is devoted to new records of a few known, and to descriptions of the following 16 new, Oriental species: Anoplodesmus mag- nus sp.n., Kronopolites coriaceus sp.n., Beronodesmus minutus sp.n., B. gorkhalis sp.n., B. longispinus sp.n., B. latispinosus sp.n., B. curtispinus sp.n., B. sinuatospi- nus sp.n., B. distospinosus sp.n., Delarthrum curtiso- ma sp.n., D. gracile sp.n., D. planifemur sp.n. and D. densesetosum sp.n., all from Nepal. Beronodesmoides gen.n., a new genus of the...
Last. Somsak Panha(Chula: Chulalongkorn University)H-Index: 15
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The Southeast Asian millipede genus Enghoffosoma ranges from southern China in the north, western Myanmar in the west, and central Thailand and southern Laos in the south and east. It currently contains seven species, including five new ones, described in this paper: E. zebra sp. n., E. lanceolatum sp. n. , E. anchoriforme sp. n., E. funda sp. n. and E. bispinum sp. n. The genus is rediagnosed, a key to all known species is given, and their distributions are mapped.
The genus Orthomorpha is currently represented in Laos by nine species, including three, O. paviei Brolemann, 1896, O. communis Likhitrakarn, Golovatch & Panha, 2011 and O. cambodjana (Attems, 1953), which are new to the fauna of the country, and further three new to science: O. suberectoides sp. n., O. gladiata sp. n. and O. sutchariti sp. n.
Last. Somsak Panha(Chula: Chulalongkorn University)H-Index: 15
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At the present, the millipede fauna of Laos comprises only 34 species from 20 genera, 13 families and 7 orders. These counts certainly represent but a minor fraction of the country’s real diversity of Diplopoda even at the ordinal level, let alone at lower ones. Based on the available information from the adjacent parts of China, Thailand, Myanmar, Vietnam and/or Cambodia, the orders Polyxenida, Sphaerotheriida, Chordeumatida, Julida and Polyzoniida must occur in Laos, may be also Glomeridesmida...