Pogoro alopias Rosenmejer & Enghoff, 2020

Olsen, Sissel Anna, Rosenmejer, Trine & Enghoff, Henrik, 2020, A mountain of millipedes IX: Species of the family Gomphodesmidae from the Udzungwa Mountains, Tanzania (Diplopoda, Polydesmida), European Journal of Taxonomy 675, pp. 1-35 : 11-13

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5852/ejt.2020.675

publication LSID

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4332909

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/9FC7C5B7-C5E0-4D66-8E9F-F1B75EBD1AA0

taxon LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:act:9FC7C5B7-C5E0-4D66-8E9F-F1B75EBD1AA0

treatment provided by

Valdenar

scientific name

Pogoro alopias Rosenmejer & Enghoff
status

sp. nov.

Pogoro alopias Rosenmejer & Enghoff View in CoL sp. nov.

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Figs 2 View Fig , 5G View Fig , 8–9 View Fig View Fig

Diagnosis

Differs from other species of the genus by the shape of the postnodal telopodite, which resembles a thresher shark’s tail, and by the triangular shape of the sternal process on segment 6.

Etymology

The name is a noun in apposition, referring to the thresher shark, Alopias vulpinus (Bonnaterre, 1788), and its tail in particular, the shape of which resembles the postnodal teleopodite in the new species.

Material examined

Holotype

TANZANIA • ♂; Iringa District, Udzungwa Scarp Forest Reserve, 11 km SE of Masisiwe Village, Kihanga Stream ; 08°22′05.7″ S, 35°58′41.6″ E, 1800 m a.s.l.; 17–27 May 1997; ZMUC and SI Exp. 1997; NHMD 621670 . GoogleMaps

Other material

TANZANIA • 1 ♀; same collecting data as for holotype; NHMD 621671 GoogleMaps .

Description

Male

SIZE AND SHAPE. Body length ca 53 mm. Maximum width 6.9 mm. W/L ratio 13%. Height of body ring eight 4.9 mm. H/W ratio= 72%.

COLOUR ( Fig. 8 View Fig ). Face, collum, prozona, sterna and metaterga yellow/brown, legs and antennae slightly lighter.

STERNAL PROCESS ON BODY RING 6 ( Fig. 5G View Fig ). Triangular with ‘wavy’ dark brown edge and long setae.

HYPOPROCT. Almost semicircular, with small round median projection, paramedian tubercles projecting beyond edge of sclerite.

GONOPOD ( Fig. 9 View Fig ). Gonocoxa with paracannular setae. Telopodite endonodal. Process M and L similar in shape and size, both curved laterad. Postnodal teleopodite wide at base, narrowing shortly after, relatively short, curved dorsad. With narrow triangular subapical lobe on lateral side. Solenomere of telopodite narrow and curved anteriad.

Distribution

Known only from the type locality in the Udzungwa Scarp FR ( Fig. 2 View Fig ).

ZMUC

Zoological Museum, University of Copenhagen

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Diplopoda

Order

Polydesmida

Family

Gomphodesmidae

Genus

Pogoro

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