Sphaeropoeus manca (Attems, 1936) Semenyuk & Golovatch & Wesener, 2020

Semenyuk, Irina, Golovatch, Sergei I. & Wesener, Thomas, 2020, Some new or poorly-known Zephroniidae (Diplopoda, Sphaerotheriida) from Vietnam, ZooKeys 930, pp. 37-60 : 37

Sphaeropoeus manca (Attems, 1936) comb. nov.

Zephronia manca Attems, 1936: 169; Sundara 1970: 127 (list); Golovatch 1983 (list); Enghoff et al. 2004: 32 (list); Jeekel 2001: 20 (list); Wesener 2016b: 33 (list).

Syntypes.

♂ and ♀, NHMW 2239 (not examined).

Distribution.

Vietnam: D’Ran, Lam Dong Prov., near Dalat; Peak Lang Biang, Lam Dong Prov., S. Annam. India: Dhobie Jhora, Kurseong, eastern Himalayas ( Attems 1936).

Remarks.

The drawings of the telopods, as well as the extremely enlarged operculum of the ♀ vulva as depicted in the original description ( Attems 1936) clearly show this species to be a member of the genus Sphaeropoeus , related to the other species mentioned below. Only a full revision of the type series, which contains syntypes from several localities in Vietnam and India, may clarify whether several species are actually hidden under the name S. manca . The posterior telopods and other characters are clearly different in S. manca compared to the two other species, as well as to Sphaeropoeus maculatus (Verhoeff, 1924) which is redescribed below.