Desmoxytes scutigeroides Golovatch, Geoffroy & Mauries , 2010

Liu, Weixin, Golovatch, Sergei I. & Tian, Mingyi, 2014, A review of the dragon millipede genus Desmoxytes Chamberlin, 1923 in China, with descriptions of four new species (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Paradoxosomatidae), ZooKeys 448, pp. 9-26 : 16

Taxon classification Animalia Polydesmida Paradoxosomatidae

Desmoxytes scutigeroides Golovatch, Geoffroy & Mauries, 2010

Desmoxytes scutigeroides Golovatch, Geoffroy & Mauriès, 2010: 58.

Desmoxytes scutigeroides - Nguyen and Sierwald 2013: 1242.

Material examined.

1 ♂, 1 ♀ (SCAU), China, Guangxi, Du’an County, Disu Town, Dading Village, cave II, 23°56.34'N, 108°0.32'E, 26.VI.2013, leg. Tian Mingyi, Lin Wei, Yin Haomin & Huang Sunbin; 1 ♂, 1 ♀, 1 ♀ fragment (SCAU), same county, Longwan Town, Nongqu Village, cave I, 23° 56.021 N, 108° 10.962 E, 459 m, 27.VI.2013, leg. Tian Mingyi, Liu Weixin, Lin Wei, Yin Haomin & Huang Sunbin.

Remarks.

This species has been described from a few caves in Huanjiang County, Guangxi, China while the new samples derive from two caves in the neighbouring Du’an County, Guangxi. The above material is in good agreement with the original description by Golovatch et al. (2010).