Dawydoffia siphonocryptida, Wesener & Moritz & Akkari, 2023

Wesener, Thomas, Moritz, Leif & Akkari, Nesrine, 2023, Integrative redescription of the sucking millipede genus Dawydoffia Attems, 1953 with a description of a new species and a transfer to the family Hirudisomatidae (Diplopoda, Polyzoniida), Zootaxa 5263 (3), pp. 411-429 : 422-423

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5263.3.6

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:2952C656-9F88-4EF1-B435-2EA07F86DF5C

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7804377

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/29675F45-FFA8-FFFD-FF5A-6A2EFA8FF988

treatment provided by

Plazi

scientific name

Dawydoffia siphonocryptida
status

sp. nov.

Dawydoffia siphonocryptida View in CoL new species

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Etymology: The first author’s first thought was, when observing this species, that it belongs to the Siphonocryptida, whose members resemble this species in their habitus. Noun in apposition.

Material examined:

Holotype: 1 ♁, SMF, broken and utilized for SEM and genetic sampling. Laos, Luang Prabang Prov., SE Luang Prabang, Nam Khan, Xien Ngeun Dist., Ban Keng Koung , 372 m, 19°40'96.3'' N, 102°18'44.2'' E, disturbed forest, valley, waterfall, forest soil, pitfall trap, leg. P. Jäger 21– 28.2.2008.

Paratypes: 1 ♀, SMF, same data as holotype, but coll. by Winkler extraction, leg. P. Jäger, 23.2.2008 ; 1 ♀, SMF, Laos, Luang Prabang Prov., SE Luang Prabang, Nam Khan , between Ban Khon Why and Xieng Ngeun, Houay Tham, 363 m, 19°44'51.2'' N, 102°13'15.4'' E, along stream, leaf litter at rocks, daytime, sieving, leg. P. Jäger, 24.3.2007 GoogleMaps ; 1 ♀, ZFMK MYR 12266 About ZFMK , same data as previous GoogleMaps .

Diagnosis:

D siphonocryptida n. sp. differs from D. kalonota in the coloration: body white, with black stripe starting at tergite 3 (body red-brown, with conspicuous black-brown stripe running from collum to anal segment in D. kalonota ). It also differs from D. kalonota in the number of conical protuberances on the second sternite (4 versus 2) and in the posterior gonopod, with podomere 2 being the largest, as long as (but wider then) podomeres 3 and 4 combined (in D. kalonota with podomere 3 being larger than 2, cylindrical, as long as 4 and 5 combined).

SMF

Forschungsinstitut und Natur-Museum Senckenberg

ZFMK

Zoologisches Forschungsmuseum Alexander Koenig

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