Orthomorpha paviei Broelemann , 1896

Likhitrakarn, Natdanai, Golovatch, Sergei I. & Panha, Somsak, 2011, Revision of the Southeast Asian millipede genus Orthomorpha Bollman, 1893, with the proposal of a new genus (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Paradoxosomatidae), ZooKeys 131, pp. 1-161 : 41-42

Orthomorpha paviei Broelemann, 1896

Orthomorpha Paviei Brölemann 1896: 332 (D).

Orthomorpha Paviei - Brölemann 1904: 8 (D); Attems 1898: 339 (M).

?Prionopeltis Paviei - Attems 1914: 204 (M).

Pratinus paviei - Attems 1937: 122 (M).

Orthomorpha paviei - Jeekel 1963: 265 (M); 1964: 359 (M); 1968: 56 (M); Golovatch 1998: 42 (D); Enghoff et al. 2004: 38 (M); Enghoff 2005: 97 (M).

Remarks.

This species has long been acknowledged as being quite disjunct due to the gonopod showing a parabasally twisted femorite, while the tip is rather deeply bifid, somewhat intermediate between that of typical Antheromorpha Jeekel, 1968 and Orthomorpha (see Brölemann 1904). However, both ( Jeekel (1963, 1964, 1968) and Golovatch (1998) included it in Orthomorpha . We still are inclined to treat Orthomorpha paviei as a distinct species of Orthomorpha , showing the gonopod tip supplied with a remarkable spine strongly resembling that in Orthomorphoides species (see below).

Species with a trifid gonopod tip, with a terminal, a middle and a subterminal denticle or lobule