Trigoniulus corallinus ( Gervais, 1847 )

Likhitrakarn, Natdanai, Jirapatrasilp, Parin, Golovatch, Sergei I. & Panha, Somsak, 2017, A checklist of the millipedes (Diplopoda) of Myanmar, with an updated list of Leonardo Fea’s collecting localities, Zootaxa 4350 (1), pp. 1-46 : 14

42. Trigoniulus corallinus ( Gervais, 1847)

Iulus corallinus Gervais in Eydoux and Souleyet, 1841: 275 (D).

Iulus corallinus Gervais, 1847: 171 (D).

Spirobolus rugosus Voges, 1878: 181 (D), synonymized by Shelley and Lehtinen (1999: 1389).

Spirobolus phranus— Pocock, 1889: 298 (D, R), synonymized by Shelley and Lehtinen (1999: 1389).

Spirobolus goësi — Pocock, 1893: 393 (R, M), synonymized by Shelley and Lehtinen (1999: 1389).

Trigoniulus goësi — Pocock, 1896: 352 (M).

Trigoniulus lumbricinus — Golovatch and Korsós, 1990: 32 (D, R).

Trigoniulus corallinus — Shelley and Lehtinen, 1999: 1389 (L, M); Jeekel, 2002: 35 (M); Jeekel, 2001c: 72 (L); Enghoff et al., 2004: 35 (R); Enghoff, 2005: 90 (R); Likhitrakarn et al., 2015a: 179 (R).

New material: 3 males, 1 female ( CUMZ), Myanmar, Mandalay Region, Mandalay District, Apache Cement Factory , 20˚52′03″N, 96˚23′30″E, 358 m a.s.l., 0 7.10.2016, leg. C. Sutcharit, W. Siriwut and R. Srisonchai.

Records from Myanmar: North Chin Hills; Sagaing Division (Sagaing Region) ( Shelley and Lehtinen 1999); Rangoon ( Voges 1878; Golovatch and Korsós 1990); Pyinmana, north of Tungoo; Tharrawaw on Irrawaddy; Rangoon; Moulmein; southern Tenasserim; Great Coco Island, Andamans; (Teike Kyee) Taikkyi (Pegu); Malewoon ( Pocock 1893); King Island; Owen Island ( Pocock 1889). The male lectotype of Iulus corallinus and one female and two juvenile paralectotypes, all from the Mauritius Island, Indian Ocean, are kept in the Paris Museum ( Shelley and Lehtinen 1999).

Remarks. This is a pantropical anthropochore species very common even on remote islands ( Shelley and Lehtinen 1999; Jeekel 2001c). It seems to be native to Southeast Asia, most likely interior Myanmar and Thailand ( Shelley and Lehtinen 1999). Authorship and date of the original description has recently been discussed in Jeekel, 2002.