Occurrence of the millipede genus Piccola Attems, 1953 in China (Diplopoda: Polydesmida: Paradoxosomatidae)

Liu, Weixin; Tian, Mingyi

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“…Firstly, the huge family Paradoxosomatidae only rarely occurs in caves, with only few presumably troglobitic species. The only exceptions are in the large genus Desmoxytes Chamberlin, 1923, which is very common both in epigean and subterranean environments across southeast Asia and China, and in the small genus Piccola Attems, 1953, with a few epigean species in Vietnam and Laos, and a single troglobitic one from Guangxi, China (Liu and Tian 2013; Golovatch 2015b). Secondly, biogeographically the situation concerning the distribution pattern of Tonkinosoma strongly resembles that not only of Piccola , but of still another millipede genus, i.e., Pacidesmus Golovatch, 1991 (Polydesmida, Polydesmidae).…”

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Occurrence of the millipede genus Tonkinosoma Jeekel, 1953 in China, with the description of the first presumed troglobitic species of this genus (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Paradoxosomatidae)

Liu¹,

Golovatch²

2018

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Occurrence of the millipede genus Tonkinosoma Jeekel, 1953 in China, with the description of the first presumed troglobitic species of this genus (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Paradoxosomatidae)

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Golovatch²

2018

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Cave millipede diversity with the description of six new species from Guangxi, China

Liu¹,

Wynne²

2019

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We synthesized the current knowledge of cave-dwelling millipede diversity from Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region (Guangxi), South China Karst, China and described six new millipede species from four caves from the Guilin area, northeastern Guangxi. Fifty-two cave-dwelling millipedes are known for the region consisting of 38 troglobionts and 14 troglophiles. Of the troglobionts, 24 are presently considered single-cave endemics. New species described here include Hyleoglomerisrukouqusp. nov. and Hyleoglomerisxuxiakeisp. nov. (Family Glomeridae), Hylomusyuanisp. nov. (Family Paradoxosomatidae), Eutrichodesmusjianjiasp. nov. (Family Haplodesmidae), Trichopeltisliangfengdongsp. nov. (Family Cryptodesmidae), and Glyphiulusmaocunsp. nov. (Family Cambalopsidae). Our work also resulted in range expansions of Pacidesmustrifidus Golovatch & Geoffroy, 2014, Blingulussinicus Zhang & Li, 1981 and Glyphiulusmelanoporus Mauriès & Nguyen Duy-Jacquemin, 1997. As with many hypogean animals in Southeast Asia, intensive human activities threaten the persistence of both cave habitats and species. We provide both assessments on the newly described species’ distributions and recommendations for future research and conservation efforts.

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Diversity, distribution patterns, and fauno-genesis of the millipedes (Diplopoda) of mainland China

Golovatch

Liu

2020

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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.

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Occurrence of the millipede genus Piccola Attems, 1953 in China (Diplopoda: Polydesmida: Paradoxosomatidae)

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Occurrence of the millipede genus Tonkinosoma Jeekel, 1953 in China, with the description of the first presumed troglobitic species of this genus (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Paradoxosomatidae)

Occurrence of the millipede genus Tonkinosoma Jeekel, 1953 in China, with the description of the first presumed troglobitic species of this genus (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Paradoxosomatidae)

Cave millipede diversity with the description of six new species from Guangxi, China

Diversity, distribution patterns, and fauno-genesis of the millipedes (Diplopoda) of mainland China

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