2012
DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.185.3082
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Abstract: The large Southeast Asian genus Desmoxytes is slightly rediagnosed. A number of troglomorphic, most likely troglobitic, species occur in southern China. A key is provided to all 10 Desmoxytes spp. currently known from China, including three new presumed troglobites: Desmoxytes eupterygota sp. n. from Hunan Province, as well as Desmoxytes spinissima sp. n. and Desmoxytes lui sp. n. from Guangxi Province. “Desmoxytes” philippina Nguyen Duc & Sierwald, 2010, from the Philippines, is formally removed from Desmoxyt… Show more

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“…Desmoxytes Chamberlin, 1923 is a large, common, rather well defined, southeast Asian genus of the basically oriental millipede tribe Orthomorphini, subfamily Paradoxosomatinae, family Paradoxosomatidae (Golovatch et al 2012). The genus is one of the very few among paradoxosomatid millipedes which not only harbours troglobitic species, but also bears its own vernacular name, the “dragon millipedes”, labeled so to emphasize the unusually prominent, wing-, spine- or antler-shaped paraterga.…”
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“…Desmoxytes Chamberlin, 1923 is a large, common, rather well defined, southeast Asian genus of the basically oriental millipede tribe Orthomorphini, subfamily Paradoxosomatinae, family Paradoxosomatidae (Golovatch et al 2012). The genus is one of the very few among paradoxosomatid millipedes which not only harbours troglobitic species, but also bears its own vernacular name, the “dragon millipedes”, labeled so to emphasize the unusually prominent, wing-, spine- or antler-shaped paraterga.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The genus is one of the very few among paradoxosomatid millipedes which not only harbours troglobitic species, but also bears its own vernacular name, the “dragon millipedes”, labeled so to emphasize the unusually prominent, wing-, spine- or antler-shaped paraterga. At the moment, Desmoxytes is represented by 29 species, usually aposematic, brightly coloured and surface-active, ranging from southern China in the north, through Indochina, down to approximately the middle of Malay Peninsula within both Thailand and Malaysia in the south (Golovatch et al 2012). Only one species, Desmoxytes planata Pocock, 1895, has attained a vast, nearly pantropical distribution through human agency (Nguyen and Sierwald 2013).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
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