One new and two little-known species of the millipede family Polydesmidae from southern China (Diplopoda: Polydesmida)

Abstract

The small, basically Himalayan genus Glenniea Turk, 1945 is formally new to the fauna of China due to the discovery of G. prima sp.n., a species that lives epigeically in Guangxi Province. Epanerchodus orientalis Attems, 1901, a highly polymorphous species very common in Japan and Taiwan, is formally reported from China for the first time as well, based on a cave population in Guangxi Province. A new cave locality is also presented for E. stylotarseus Chen & Zhang, 1990, a species already known from three other caves in the same Guanling County, Guizhou Province. ÐÅÇÞÌÅ. Íåáîëüøîé, â îñíîâíîì ãèìàëàéñêèé ðîä Glenniea Turk, 1945 ôîðìàëüíî íîâûé äëÿ ôàóíû Êèòàÿ, áëàãîäàðÿ íàõîäêå G. prima sp.n., aeèâóùåé â ëåñíîé ïîäñòèëêå â ïðîâèíöèè Ãóàíñè. Epanerchodus orientalis Attems, 1901, êðàéíå ïîëèìîðôíûé âèä, î÷åíü îáû÷íûé â ßïîíèè è íà Òàéâàíå, ôîðìàëüíî òîaeå âïåðâûå çàðåãèñòðèðîâàí â Êèòàå, áëàãîäàðÿ íàõîäêå ïåùåðíîé ïîïóëÿöèè â ïðîâèíöèè Ãóàíñè. Äàíà íîâàÿ íàõîäêà â ïåùåðå âèäà E. stylotarseus Chen & Zhang, 1990, êîòîðûé äî ñèõ ïîð áûë èçâåñòåí èç äðóãèõ òðåõ ïåùåð â òîì aeå ðàéîíå Ãóàíëèí â ïðîâèíöèè Ãóé÷aeîó.

On some new or poorly-known species of the millipede family Polydesmidae from southern China (Diplopoda: Polydesmida)

“…The topotypes fully agree with the original description [Golovatch et al, 2012], but both are a little larger than the holotype: ca 8 mm long, 0.65 and 0.8 mm wide on midbody pro-and metazonae, respectively.…”

“…The large, basically Holarctic millipede family Polydesmidae is quite well represented in the fauna of continental China: so far at least 16 species of the highly prolific East and central Asian genus Epanerchodus Attems, 1901, including several presumed troglobites [Golovatch, 2014a, b], six species of the small genus Pacidesmus Golovatch, 1991, all likely troglobites, in contrast to the sole, and type, species known from a high-mountain forest in northern Thailand [Golovatch et al, 2010], a single species of the great amphi-Palaearctic genus Polydesmus Latreille, 1802 [Golovatch, 1991], and a single, epigean species of the small, basically Himalayan genus Glenniea Turk, 1945[Golovatch et al, 2012. All cavernicolous polydesmids in China are thereby confined to the karst massifs covering the southern parts of the country.…”

New records of the millipede genus Schizoturanius Verhoeff, 1931 from Asian Russia (Diplopoda: Polydesmida: Polydesmidae)

“…At the same time, S. dmitriewi is quite similar to S. clavatipes in habitus, as well as in gonopodal structure, but they never live together, being allopatric. Attems, 1904: 48;Nefediev, Nefedieva, 2008a: 117. Schizoturanius clavatipes -Lohmander, 1933: 27;Hoffman, 1975: 81, 82: figs;Lokšina, Golovatch, 1979: 384;Golovatch, 1979: 993;Mikhaljova, 1993: 31, 32: figs;2002: 206;2004: 238, 239: figs, 228: map;2013a: 221;2013b: 9;2016: 24;2017: 288, 289: figs, 290: map;Mikhaljova, Golovatch, 2001: 116;Nefediev, 2001: 85;2002c: 139;Vorobiova et al, 2002: 62;Mikhaljova, Nefediev, 2003: 81;Nefediev, Nefedieva, 2005: 178;2006: 98;2007a: 139;2007b: 161;2007c: 99;2008b: 62;2011: 100;2012a: 47;2012b: 51;2013: 87;2017: 292;Nefedieva, Nefediev, 2008: 123;Nefediev et al, 2014: 63;Nefedieva et al, 2014: 65;2015 Krivosheino District, near Novoislambul, 57.418825°N, 83.878022°E, mixed forest, 115 m a.s.l., 21.IX.2003, leg. P.N.…”

“…Gonopod terminology follows that accepted in Golovatch [2014Golovatch [ , 2015. MATERIAL RE-EXAMINED (specimens recorded by Nefediev, Nefedieva [2017] and DISTRIBUTION.…”

“…Объяснение обозначений дано в тексте. ev, 2001: 85;2002a: 41;2002b: 30;2002c: 139;2002d: 35;Mikhaljova, Nefediev, 2003: 83;Nefediev, Nefedieva, 2008a: 118. Schizoturanius tabescens Mikhaljova, 1993: 31, 32: figs;2004: 240, 241: figs, 242: map;2013a: 221;2017: 291, figs, 292: map;Vorobiova, 1999: 33;Mikhaljova, Golovatch, 2001: 116;Vorobiova et al, 2002: 62;Rybalov, 2002: 83;Rybalov, Vorobiova, 2002: 14;Mikhaljova, Marusik, 2004: 8, 7: figs;Nefediev, Nefedieva, 2005: 178;2006: 98;2007a: 139;2007b: 161;2007c: 100;2008a: 118;2008b: 62;2011: 100;2012a: 51;2012b: 47;2013: 87;2017: 292;Nefedieva, Nefediev, 2008: 123;Babenko et al, 2009: 183;Bukhkalo et al, 2014: 74;Nefedieva et al, 2014: 65;2015 . The species is also known a significant distance away from the main part of its distribution area, being recorded from the south of the Tyumen and Irkutsk areas as well (Fig.…”