Hemisphaeroparia spiniger Golovatch, Nzoko Fiemapong, Tamesse, Mauries & VandenSpiegel, 2018

Golovatch, Sergei I., Fiemapong, Armand Richard Nzoko & VandenSpiegel, Didier, 2019, Trichopolydesmidae from Cameroon, 2: A species-level reclassification of Afrotropical trichopolydesmids (Diplopoda, Polydesmida), with two new species and two new records from Cameroon, and two new species from the Nimba Mountains, Guinea, ZooKeys 891, pp. 31-59 : 31

Hemisphaeroparia spiniger Golovatch, Nzoko Fiemapong, Tamesse, Mauries & VandenSpiegel, 2018 Figs 8 , 9

Hemisphaeroparia spiniger Golovatch et al., 2018: 64 (original description).

New material.

1 ♂ (MRAC 22860), 1 ♂ (SEM, MRAC 22861), Cameroon, Center Region, Mafou and Afamba Division, Mfou, cocoa plantation, 3°48 ’49.6” N, 11°40 ’49.6” E, 24.VII.2019, A.R. Nzoko Fiemapong leg.

Remarks.

The new samples fully agree with the original description ( Golovatch et al. 2018) and are again illustrated to confirm the species’ identity ( Figs 8 , 9 ), including the remarkably enlarged spiracles 1.

The new locality, Mfou, lies quite close to the type one, campus of University Yaounde 1, both in the Central Region of Cameroon. Moreover, because both known localities/habitats represent artificial palm or cocoa plantations, H. spiniger could have been introduced there from some native woodlands still to be revealed or already vanished.

Figures

Figure 8. Hemisphaeroparia spiniger Golovatch, Nzoko Fiemapong, Tamesse, Mauries & VandenSpiegel, 2018, SEM micrographs of ♂ from Mfou A, D, G anterior part of body, lateral, dorsal and ventral views, respectively B, E, I midbody segments, lateral, dorsal and ventral views, respectively C, F, J posterior part of body, lateral, dorsal and ventral views, respectively H, L enlarged spiracles near coxae 2, ventral view K cross-section of a midbody segment, caudal view M fine tergal structure with setae, dorsal view N tergal seta, enlarged. Scale bars: 0.1 mm (A-G, I-K), 0.05 mm (H, M), 0.02 mm (L), 0.01 mm (N).

Figure 9. Hemisphaeroparia spiniger Golovatch, Nzoko Fiemapong, Tamesse, Mauries & VandenSpiegel, 2018, gonopods of ♂♂ from Mfou A both gonopods in situ, ventral view B, C right gonopod, caudolateral and subcaudal views, respectively D left gonopod, mesal view. Scale bars: 0.1 mm (D), 0.05 mm (A-C).