Paracortina leptoclada Wang & Zhang, 1993

Akkari, Nesrine, Macek, Oliver & Stoev, Pavel, 2023, A revision of the millipede family Paracortinidae (Diplopoda, Callipodida), ZooKeys 1187, pp. 341-399 : 341

Paracortina leptoclada Wang & Zhang, 1993

Fig. 28

Paracortina leptoclada Wang & Zhang, 1993: 376-377, figs 1-5; Stoev and Geoffroy 2004: 99, 103, key; Liu and Tian 2015: 139, key.

Diagnosis.

Most similar to P. thallina , with an expanded distal part of the telopodite bearing a large rounded lateral lamella and a hook-shaped process pointing anterodistad. Different in the shape and orientation of the distal lamella, laterally positioned and folded 180 degrees and a shorter mesal coxal process.

Descriptive notes.

Male holotype 55 mm long, 2.3 mm wide, general colour brown, 55 podous +2 apodous PTs, coxa of leg pairs 1 and 7 with two processes ( Wang and Zhang 1993; Wang 1996), head with a large projection on the vertex ( Wang 1996).

Male sexual characters.

(based on Wang and Zhang 1993: fig. 19) Leg-pair 7 with two processes on coxa.

Gonopods. Parallel and slightly diverging. Each gonopod with two uniformly setose, clavate prefemoroidal processes (pf1 and pf2), one large falcate coxal process narrowing at mid-length and apically projecting in a pointed tip, reaching the distal part of the telopodite. Telopodite (T) with a stout stem, distally expanding in a larger process projecting in a broad lateral folded lamella and a thin curved mesal process pointing anterodistad, apically bifurcated to accommodate the solenomere (s) and parasolenomere (ps).

Distribution.

Shangrila County, Yunnan, China (Fig. 28 ).

Comments.

Species known only from its original description.

Figures

Figure 28. Distribution map of Paracortinidae in China and Vietnam.