Aquattuor Frederiksen, 2013

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 : 21-22

Genus Aquattuor Frederiksen, 2013

Type species

Aquattuor denticulatus Frederiksen, 2013 ( Tanzania) , by original designation.

Other included species

Nine ( Enghoff 2020).

Diagnosis

Differs from all other genera of Odontopygidae by the large, rectangular, detachable limbus flaps ( Frederiksen 2013b; Enghoff & Frederiksen 2015; Enghoff 2020).

Remarks

Eight of the ten species in the genus are Eastern Arc endemics. Aquattuor fasciatus ( Attems, 1896) and A. claudiahempae Enghoff & Frederiksen, 2015 have been found at various Tanzanian localities outside the Eastern Arc, and may by synonymous ( Enghoff 2020).

In the diagnosis of A. fasciatus Enghoff (2020) stated: “Shares a short (as broad as long, or slightly longer) gonopodal palette with A. claudiahempae , A. fasciatus , A. stereosathe , A. submajor and A. udzungwensis . ” This, of course makes no sense – it should have been “Shares a short (as broad as long, or slightly longer) gonopodal palette with A. claudiahempae , A. denticulatus , A. stereosathe , A. submajor and A. udzungwensis . ” I am grateful to Carlos Martínez for having spotted this.