Chaleponcus tintin, Enghoff, 2014

Enghoff, Henrik, 2014, A mountain of millipedes I: An endemic species-group of the genus Chaleponcus Attems, 1914, from the Udzungwa Mountains, Tanzania (Diplopoda, Spirostreptida, Odontopygidae), European Journal of Taxonomy 100, pp. 1-75 : 65-67

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5852/ejt.2014.100

publication LSID

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3861201

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/E350A221-3166-45FA-B897-F5A36A31A900

taxon LSID

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scientific name

Chaleponcus tintin
status

sp. nov.

Chaleponcus tintin View in CoL sp. nov.

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Figs 9 View Fig , 31 View Fig , 34 View Fig

Diagnosis

Small. Distinguished from all other species in the C. dabagaensis group by the hook-like tip of the gonopod coxa ( Fig. 9 View Fig ). Gonopod coxa without a lateral process; metaplical shelf-spine long.

Etymology

The name is a noun in apposition and refers to a cartoon character developed by the Belgian author Hergé because of the (somewhat remote) resemblance of the shape of the gonopod cucullus to Tintin’s hairstyle.

Material studied (total: 1 ♂)

Holotype

TANZANIA: ♂, Iringa District, Udzungwa Mts, Chervemba, Mufu forest , Ndundulu forest , Udekwa village , 2100 m, montane evergreen forest, in dead wood, 6 Sep. 1991, Louis Hansen leg. ( ZMUC).

Type locality

TANZANIA: Iringa District, Udzungwa Mts, Chervemba, Mufu forest, Ndundulu forest, Udekwa village, 2100 m, montane evergreen forest.

Description (male)

DIAMETER. 1.6 mm, 41 podous rings.

COLOUR. After 23 years in alcohol almost uniform pale brownish, with traces of a pale dorsal band.

ANAL VALVES. Each with a strong dorsal spine and a very small ventral one; marginal rim raised, setiferous tubercles inconspicuous, not on ‘ravelins’.

LIMBUS. With triangular lobes; lobes slightly longer than wide, striate on outer surface.

TARSAL SETATION. Normal

GONOPOD COXA ( Figs 9 View Fig , 31 View Fig ). About 3 × as high as wide. Lateral margin straight, apically curving mesad at right angles, cucullus (cu) produced in characteristic laterad-curving hook. Metaplical flange ending in triangular process (mfp). Metaplical shelf (ms) small and simple; metaplical shelf-spine (mss) short, thin, sinuous, pointing mesad.

GONOPOD TELOPODITE ( Fig. 31 View Fig ). Solenomere with a very small proximal spine (ps). Telomere with two

branches:

• a relatively small, subrectangular anterior lamella (al),

• a more elaborate posterior lamella (pl) with strongly spiny margins and with a basal branch (plb) ending in long spine; pl including plb curving anteriad and best visible in anterior view.

Distribution and habitat

The unique holotype was found in Udzungwa Mts, Chervemba, Mufu forest, Ndundulu forest, Udekwa village.Altitude: 2100 m asl (the highest accurate record of the C. dabagaensis group). Habitat: montane evergreen forest, in dead wood.

Coexisting species

No further species of the C. dabagaensis group is known from Ndundulu forest. However, C. basiliscus sp. nov., C. circumvallatus sp. nov., C. gracilior sp. nov., C. ibis sp. nov. and C. netus sp. nov. also occur in West Kilombero FR to which Ndundulu forest belongs.

ZMUC

Denmark, Kobenhavn [= Copenhagen], University of Copenhagen, Zoological Museum

ZMUC

Zoological Museum, University of Copenhagen

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