Parafontaria erythrosom

Tanabe, T., 2002, Revision of the millipede genus Parafontaria VerhoeV, 1936 (Diplopoda, Xystodesmidae), Journal of Natural History 36 (18), pp. 2139-2183 : 2150-2151

Parafontaria erythrosom a ( Takakuwa, 1942)

(gures 2, 6A, B, 10A, B, 13A, 15A, 18, 19)

Japonaria erythrosoma Takakuwa, 1942: 40 , gure 3, type (s) (YM, not examined) destroyed in re in 1945 by air raid on Matsuyama-shi, type locality: Kawaji, Fujiwara-machi, Shioya-gun, Tochigi Prefecture; Takakuwa, 1954: 81, gures 86, 87; Miyosi, 1959: 85, pl. 4, gure 67.

Parafontaria erythrosoma: Murakami, 1993: 99 .

Diagnosis. Similar to P. ishiii but separable from that species by the details of the distal part of the gonopods (gure 10A–D).

Male (based on male from Ôaraiisozaki-jinja Shrine, Ôarai-machi, Ibaraki Prefecture). Gonopodal characters as follows (gures 6A, B, 10A, B). Telopodite forming one and a half loops. Femur with mesal tooth, without femoral bend and lateral tooth. Tibiotarsal process bifurcate, located near tip, not completely visible in mesal view; apical process spatulate; mesal process slender; solenomerite forming small process.

Colour in life (based on same male as above). Tergites brownish orange, with brown stripes along posterior margins of metatergites and both anterior and posterior margins of collum.

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Prefecture. (E) Sono, Miyagawa-mura, Mie Prefecture. (F) Mt Kôtsu-san , Yamakawa- University Ap cho,, apical Tokushima process Prefecture; Mp, mesal. (G) process Mt Sarakura-san., Kitakyushu-shi , Fukuoka Prefecture . [

by Female (based on female from Ôaraiisozaki-jinja Shrine, Ôarai-machi, Ibaraki Downloaded surface Prefecture Cyphopodal Measurements (gure). bellows Coxae 15A) (in. and tube mm sternite, soft mean, not of (range segment sclerotized )). Males 3, slightly without (N = modi 8) at: HW ed region as 2.85 in on (gure 2.6 posterior – 13 3.0 A)., MTW 4.10 (3.7–4.5). Females (N =6): HW 3.43 (3.3–3.7), MTW 5.00 (4.7–5.4). Distribution (gure 2). Honshu: Ibaraki and Tochigi Prefectures.

Specimens examined. Ibaraki Prefecture: Ôaraiisozaki-jinja Shrine, 20 m alt., Ôarai-machi, Higashiibaraki-gun , 1 June 1987 ( TT), seven males, 25 females . Locality and collector as above, 29 July 1987 ( TT), one male . Tochigi Prefecture: Cryptomeria japonica and Chamaecyparis obtusa mixed forest, Mt Sekison-san, Ashikaga-shi , 11 September 1981 (K. Ishii), two males, one female , one 7S female. Literature record. Tochigi Prefecture: type locality .