Revision of the endemic Taiwanese millipede genus Aponedyopus Verhoeff, 1939, with descriptions of two new species (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Paradoxosomatidae)

By

Chen, Chao-Chun
Golovatch, Sergei
Chang, Hsueh-Wen
Chen, Shyh-Hwang

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2010

Original Publication

ZooKeys

Volume

72

Pages

1-21

Subjects

Millipede, Aponedyopus, taxonomy, new species, dis

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia, Bulgaria Pensoft Publishers

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.72.743

 

Abstract

The millipede genus Aponedyopus is endemic to Taiwan and contains three species. All previously known congeners are considered to represent one species: A. montanus Verhoeff, 1939 (the type species), including A. reesi (Wang, 1957) and A. maculatus Takakuwa, 1942, syn. n. Two further species are described as new: A. similis sp. n. and A. latilobatus sp. n. The genus is re-diagnosed, all of its three species are keyed, and their distributions mapped.