Epanerchodus soror Geoffroy & Golovatch, 2004

Liu, Weixin & Golovatch, Sergei, 2018, The millipede genus Epanerchodus Attems, 1901 in continental China, with descriptions of seven new cavernicolous species (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Polydesmidae), Zootaxa 4459 (1), pp. 53-84 : 75

Epanerchodus soror Geoffroy & Golovatch, 2004

Figs 20–21 .

Epanerchodus soror Geoffroy and Golovatch, 2004: 23 , figs 9–15.

Epanerchodus soror— Golovatch, 2014a: 275, 286.

Material examined: 1 male, 18 females ( SCAU) from China, Yunnan Province, Zhenxiong County, Hama Dong Cave, 23.VI.2015, colls: Mingyi Tian , Weixin Liu , Xinhui Wang and Mingruo Tang.

Notes: This species has been described from several caves in Zhenxiong County, Yunnan Province. The new material was collected from another cave in the same county. The new material agrees closely with the original description ( Geoffroy and Golovatch 2004), but the gonopodal endomere is more strongly curved ( Fig. 21 ) vs. suberect in the earlier documented material.

Figures

FIGURE 20. Epanerchodus soror Geoffroy and Golovatch, 2004, male from Hama Dong Cave. A–C: habitus, ventral, subdorsal and lateral views. Scale bar: 0.2 mm.

FIGURE 21. Epanerchodus soror Geoffroy and Golovatch, 2004, male from Hama Dong Cave. A: left gonopod, mesal view. B: left gonopod, lateral view. Abbreviations: en = endomere; p = process.