First description of a male Melaphe apamea Hoffman & Lohmander, 1968 from Turkey (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Xystodesmidae)

By

Korsós, Zoltán
Golovatch, Sergei

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2025-5-16

Original Publication

Biodiversity data journal

Volume

13

Pages

1--8

Subjects

male specimen , millipede , Turkey

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia Pensoft Publishers [2013]-

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.13.e156970

 

Abstract

The male of Melaphe apamea Hoffman &amp; Lohmander, 1968 is described and illustrated for the first time, based on a single specimen collected by a Hungarian expedition to Turkey in 1980.<br> The specimen is kept in the Myriapoda Collection of the Hungarian Natural History Museum (Hungarian National Museum Public Collection Centre), Budapest.