Callistodontopyge Hoffman & Howell, 1981

Enghoff, Henrik, 2022, Mountains of millipedes. The family Odontopygidae in the Eastern Arc Mountains of Tanzania (Diplopoda, Spirostreptida), European Journal of Taxonomy 803, pp. 1-136 : 22

Genus Callistodontopyge Hoffman & Howell, 1981

Type species

Callistodontopyge decora Hoffman & Howell, 1981 ( Tanzania) , by original designation, now a synonym of C. latifolia ( Attems, 1914) , see below.

Other included species

Four ( Hoffman 2002).

Remarks

An easily recognized genus of usually bright and contrastfully coloured species ( Fig. 12 ), also unusual among odontopygids by their comparatively compact body and by the trilobed distal margin of the male mandibular stipes ( Fig. 3B ). The five included species are distributed in Somalia, eastern Kenya and northern Tanzania ( Hoffman & Howell 1981; Hoffman 2002).

Figures

Fig. 12. Callistodontopye latifolia (Attems, 1914), two specimens (not collected) from Tanzania, small island at Kwale in Manza Bay, to show the compact body shape and bright colour pattern characteristic of thegenus Callistodontopyge. Photo Claudia Hemp.

Fig. 3. Heads of odontopygid males, arrows point to distal margin of mandibular stipes. A. Spinotarsus axelisp. nov.,holotype(NHMD621761),distalmarginof stipesconcave/bilobed,as inmostodontopygids. B. Callistodontopyge latifolia (Attems, 1914), specimen from Kiverenge FR (NHMD 621713), distal margin of stipes trilobed as characteristic of this genus. Scale bars=1 mm. Photo S.G. Selvantharan.