Six new species of dragon millipedes, genus Desmoxytes Chamberlin, 1923

AutorInnen:

Liu, WX., Golovatch, SI., Tian, MY.

Erscheinungsjahr:

2016

Vollständiger Titel:

Six new species of dragon millipedes, genus Desmoxytes Chamberlin, 1923, mostly from caves in China (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Paradoxosomatidae)

ZFMK-Autorinnen / ZFMK-Autoren:

Weixin Liu

Org. Einordnung:

Myriapoda

Publiziert in:

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.