Epanerchodus parvus, Liu & Golovatch, 2018
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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4459.1.2 |
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5973776 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/9005EB48-4235-8E58-48DA-FAE80203FA09 |
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Epanerchodus parvus |
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sp. nov. |
Epanerchodus parvus View in CoL , new species
Figs 10–11 View FIGURE 10 View FIGURE 11 .
Material examined: Holotype male ( SCAU eGZ7-1) from China, Guizhou Province, Qiandongnan Autonomous Prefecture, Cenggong County, Pingzhuang Town , Wanfuchangcheng Dong Cave , 29.VI.2014, colls: Mingyi Tian , Weixin Liu , Haomin Yin , Sunbin Huang and Xinhui Wang . Paratypes: 8 males, 20 females ( SCAU eGZ7-2), same data as the holotype .
Diagnosis: Adult males of E. parvus n. sp. are distinct from other Epanerchodus species based on the following combination of characters: (1) body small (ca 13–16 mm); (2) collum broader than head ( Fig. 10A View FIGURE 10 ); (3) gonopodal clivus broadly triangular; (4) endomere at base with a small, digitiform, lateral process (p), while its tip beak-shaped and denticulate near apex ( Fig. 11 View FIGURE 11 ).
The former character is similar to that observed in E. gladiatus n. sp., E. chutou n. sp. (both from caves in Guizhou, China) and E. fuscus (from Yunnan, China). However, E. parvus n. sp. is distinguished not only in gonopodal structural details, but also by the narrower body: widths of pro- and metazonae 0.8–1.0 and 1.3–1.5 mm vs. clearly broader in E. gladiatus n. sp., E. chutou n. sp. and E. fuscus : widths of pro- and metazonae 1.2–1.3 and 2.5–3.0, 1–1.2 and 2.0, and 2.3 and 4.0 mm, respectively.
Description: Based on type specimens. Lengths of body ca 13.5–15.5 mm (males) or 15–17 mm (females), widths of pro- and metazonae 0.8–1.0 and 1.3–1.5 mm (males) or 1.01–1.2 and 1.7–1.8 mm (females). Coloration: in alcohol generally pallid. Mouthparts and gonopodal telopodites light yellowish. Body: Adults with 20 rings. Width: collum <head = rings 2–3 <4 <5–15, thereafter body gradually tapering towards telson. Head: clypeus densely pilose, vertex sparsely setose, epicranial suture conspicuous ( Fig. 10B View FIGURE 10 ). Antennae long, reaching behind posterior margin of ring 3 when extended posteriorly, slightly clavate ( Figs. 10A, B, G View FIGURE 10 ). Exoskeleton: Collum fanshaped, with a lateral incision on each side ( Fig. 10A View FIGURE 10 ). Paraterga narrow ( Fig. 10 View FIGURE 10 ), midbody paraterga extend metatergite to ca 1.5x width of prozonite. Paraterga on collum and rings 2–4 clearly upturned dorsally above a faintly convex dorsum, other paraterga flat. From ring 10 on, caudolateral corners of paraterga increasingly acuteangled, sharper and pointed on rings 15–19 ( Fig. 10D View FIGURE 10 ). Integument shining, translucent, prozonae very delicately alveolate. Limbus regularly denticulate. Constriction between pro- and metazonae narrow, shallow and smooth. Metatergal sculpture faint, with three irregular transverse rows of setigerous, polygonal bosses. Sulcus between front and middle rows of setae a little deeper than that between middle and caudal rows. Tergal setae invisible. Three or four faint setigerous incisions at lateral margins of poreless and pore-bearing rings, respectively. Pore formula normal: 5, 7, 9, 10, 12, 13, 15–19, ozopores evident, dorsal, clearly set off from lateral margin and located between last and penultimate marginal incisions. Epiproct short, conical, pre-apical lateral papillae small. Hypoproct subtrapeziform, with two setigerous papillae. Pleurosternal carinae small, present only on ring 2. Sterna sparsely setose, cross-shaped impressions shallow. Legs long and slender ( Fig. 10 View FIGURE 10 ), about 2.0–2.2 times as long as body ring height in both sexes, without sphaerotrichomes or sternal cones, prefemora not bulging laterally. Gonopods: slender ( Fig. 11 View FIGURE 11 ). Telopodite mostly suberect. Prefemur densely setose and nearly half the length of telopodite. Clivus (cl) broadly triangular. Endomere (en) tip beak-shaped, denticulate near apex. Endomere at base with a small, digitiform, lateral process (p). Seminal groove starting mesally, then recurving laterad to run into an accessory seminal chamber, the latter opening on a hairy pulvillus. An exomere absent.
Note: Because of the long slender antennae and legs, and a depigmented cuticle, this species is most likely a troglobite.
Etymology: To emphasize the small size of this species; masculine adjective.
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