New giant pill-millipedes from Thailand

AutorInnen:

Trine Rosenmejer, Henrik Enghoff, Leif Moritz, Thomas Wesener

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Vollständiger Titel:

Integrative description of new giant pill-millipedes from southern Thailand (Diplopoda, Sphaerotheriida, Zephroniidae)

ZFMK-Autorinnen / ZFMK-Autoren:

Dr. Thomas Wesener, Leif Moritz

Org. Einordnung:

Myriapoda

Publiziert in:

European Journal of Taxonomy

Publikationstyp:

Zeitschriftenaufsatz

DOI Name:

https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2021.762.1457

Keywords:

Cybertype, CT Scan, DNA Barcoding, biodiversity, soil fauna

Bibliographische Angaben:

Rosenmejer, T., Enghoff, H., Moritz, L., Wesener, T. (2021): Integrative description of new giant pill-millipedes from southern Thailand (Diplopoda, Sphaerotheriida, Zephroniidae). European Journal of Taxonomy 762: 108–132.

Abstract:

Two new species of giant pill-millipedes, Zephronia viridisoma Rosenmejer & Wesener sp. nov. and Sphaerobelum aesculus Rosenmejer & Wesener sp. nov., are described based on museum samples from southern Thailand. Zephronia viridisoma sp. nov. comes from Khao Lak, while the type locality of S. aesculus sp. nov. is on Phuket Island. Both species are described integratively, combining light microscopy, scanning electron microscopy, multi-layer photography, micro-CT scans and genetic barcoding. Genetic barcoding was successfully conducted for holotypes of both new species, which could be added to a dataset of all published sequences of the family Zephroniidae, including all described species from Thailand, Laos and Cambodia up to 2020. Genetic barcoding of the COI gene revealed another female of S. aesculus sp. nov., 160 km east of the type locality. Both new species are genetically distant from all other Zephroniidae from Thailand and surrounding countries, showing uncorrected p-distances of 16.8–23.1%. A virtual cybertype of a paratype of Z. viridisoma sp. nov. was created and made publically accessible.