Six new species of dragon millipedes, genus Desmoxytes Chamberlin, 1923
Erscheinungsjahr:
2016
Vollständiger Titel:
Six new species of dragon millipedes, genus Desmoxytes Chamberlin, 1923, mostly from caves in China (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Paradoxosomatidae)
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ZooKeys
Publikationstyp:
Zeitschriftenaufsatz
DOI Name:
doi: 10.3897/zookeys.577.7825
Keywords:
Desmoxytes, new species, troglobite, key, southern China
Bibliographische Angaben:
Liu WX, Golovatch SI, Tian MY (2016) Six new species of dragon millipedes, genus Desmoxytes Chamberlin, 1923, mostly from caves in China (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Paradoxosomatidae). ZooKeys 577: 1–24. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.577.7825
Abstract:
Six new species of Desmoxytes are described from southern China: D. laticollis sp. n., D. simplipoda sp. n., and D. similis sp. n., all three from caves in Guangdong Province; D. phasmoides sp. n. also from a cave, and both epigean D. spiniterga sp. n. and D. variabilis sp. n., the latter trio from Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. A modified key to all 20 Desmoxytes species currently known to occur in China is given.