Aquattuor fasciatus ( Attems, 1896 )

Enghoff, Henrik, 2020, A mountain of millipedes VIII. The genus Aquattuor Frederiksen, 2013 revisited - a new species from the Udzungwa Mts, Tanzania, another from the Nguru Mts, and introduction of the first pair of male legs as a source of taxonomic characters (Diplopoda, Spirostreptida, Odontopygidae), European Journal of Taxonomy 626, pp. 1-32 : 12-14

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5852/ejt.2020.626

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:D91881D6-55D8-48FC-A383-069BC643A91E

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3808354

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/5C11879E-FFBD-FFD7-FD87-EFB3FB281065

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Valdenar

scientific name

Aquattuor fasciatus ( Attems, 1896 )
status

 

Aquattuor fasciatus ( Attems, 1896) View in CoL

Figs 1 View Fig , 3 View Fig A–C

Odontopyge fasciata Attems, 1896: 40 View in CoL .

Prionopetalum fasciatum View in CoL – Attems 1914: 210. — Brolemann 1920: 123. — Kraus 1960: 86. — VandenSpiegel & Pierrard 2009: 152. — Enghoff et al. 2016: 69.

Aquattuor aff. claudiahempae View in CoL – Enghoff & Frederiksen 2015: 19 View Cited Treatment .

Aquattuor fasciatus View in CoL – Enghoff 2016b: 14 View Cited Treatment .

Diagnosis

Diameter 1.55–1.91 mm, 51–53 (55?) podous rings. Shares a short (as broad as long, or slightly longer) gonopodal palette with A. claudiahempae , A. fasciatus , A. stereosathe , A. submajor and A. udzungwensis . Differs from these species, except A. claudiahempae , by the combination of fully developed telopodites on the first pair of male legs, the gonopodal telomere describing a ca 270° curve, curving almost in one plane only, by lacking a spinose lid-like flap on the basal telomeral lamella, and by having a distinct meso-basal lobe of the gonopod palette. Very similar to, and perhaps not distinct from A. claudiahempae , differs by being mostly larger (male diameter> 1.5 mm) and by having the prefemoral processes of the first pair of male legs stouter, subtriangular.

Material studied (total: 1 ♂)

TANZANIA • 1 ♂; Zanzibar, the sultan’s palace; 16 Jun. 1979; M. Stoltze leg.; NHMD 621641 .

Descriptive notes

First pair of male legs ( Fig. 3 View Fig A–C) each with a single, relatively stout, triangular prefemoral process; prefemoral processes stouter than those of the otherwise very similar A. claudiahempae ; setae of telopodite distal to prefemur similar in length to those of normal walking legs.

See remarks under A. claudiahempae .

Distribution

Recorded from Zanzibar (type locality), Pwani Region, Bagamoyo Distr., Vula Mountain, Pongwe ( VandenSpiegel & Pierrard, 2009, as Prionopetalum fasciatum ) and from Morogoro Region, Kilosa District, Rubeho Mts, 900 m a.s.l. ( Enghoff & Frederiksen 2015, as A. aff. claudiahempae ).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Diplopoda

Order

Spirostreptida

Family

Odontopygidae

Genus

Aquattuor

Loc

Aquattuor fasciatus ( Attems, 1896 )

Enghoff, Henrik 2020
2020
Loc

Aquattuor fasciatus

Enghoff H. 2016: 14
2016
Loc

Aquattuor aff. claudiahempae

Enghoff H. & Frederiksen S. B. 2015: 19
2015
Loc

Prionopetalum fasciatum

Enghoff H. & Hoffman R. L. & Howell K. M. 2016: 69
VandenSpiegel D. & Pierrard G. 2009: 152
Kraus O. 1960: 86
Brolemann H. W. 1920: 123
Attems C. G. 1914: 210
1914
Loc

Odontopyge fasciata

Attems C. G. 1896: 40
1896
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