Glyphiulus melanoporus Mauries & Nguyen Duy-Jacquemin, 1997

Liu, Weixin & Wynne, J. Judson, 2019, Cave millipede diversity with the description of six new species from Guangxi, China, Subterranean Biology 30, pp. 57-94 : 78

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/subtbiol.30.35559

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scientific name

Glyphiulus melanoporus Mauries & Nguyen Duy-Jacquemin, 1997
status

 

Glyphiulus melanoporus Mauries & Nguyen Duy-Jacquemin, 1997

Material examined.

1 male, 1 female, 1 juv. (SCAU), China, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Xiufeng District, Maomaotou Cave, [25°18'46.12"N, 110°16'12.64"E], 225 m el., deep zone, direct intuitive search, 15 November 2016, J. J. Wynne leg.

Notes.

G. melanoporus is considered a troglophile. The type locality for this species is Skeleton Cave [25°17'13"N, 110°13'26"E] ( Mauriès and Nguyen Duy-Jacquemin 1997). We collected this species from Maomaotou Cave, which represents a 21.1 km range expansion to the south of the type locality.

Habitat.

For our specimens, we collected them within the deep zone of Maomaotou Cave. Sediment where specimens were collected was compacted and wet.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Diplopoda

Order

Glomerida

Family

Glomeridae

Genus

Glyphiulus