Callistodontopyge latifolia ( Attems, 1914 )

Enghoff, Henrik, 2022, Mountains of millipedes. The family Odontopygidae in the Eastern Arc Mountains of Tanzania (Diplopoda, Spirostreptida), European Journal of Taxonomy 803, pp. 1-136 : 22-24

Callistodontopyge latifolia ( Attems, 1914)

Figs 3B , 12–13

Haplothysanus latifolius Attems, 1914: 193 .

Callistodontopyge decora Hoffman & Howell, 1981: 690 .

Callistodontopyge latifolia decora – Hoffman 2002.

New material examined

TANZANIA • 2 ♂♂; Kilimanjaro region, Mwanga district, North Pare Mountains. Kiverenge FR ; 03°47′55,4″ S, 37°39′54,4″ E; 1385m a.s.l.; 14 May 2011; S. Frederiksen leg. and det.; found out in the open on the trail; NHMD 621713 , NHMD 621714 • 1 ♂; Tanga Region, Muheza and Korogwe Districts , Bombo East I proposed FR; Sep. 1996; N. Cordeiro leg.; NHMD 621712 • 1 ♂; Dodoma Region, Mpwapwa district, Rubeho Mountains, Kimusi (?); 1200 m a.s.l.; 21 Feb. 1984; J. Kielland leg.; VMNH110627 .

Descriptive notes based on new material

First pair of legs ( Fig. 13 ) with large prefemoral lobes almost semicircular with straight distal margin in ventral view, lobes covering entire breadth of prefemur. Three coxosternal setae (CXS) close to lateral

margin of coxosternum, well separated from prefemoral lobes. Prefemora with two mesapical setae (APS) and a few shorter setae (ss) just basal to APS, otherwise bare.

Distribution

Previous Eastern Arc records: Tanga Region, Lushoto Distr., West Usambara Mts, Mazumbai; also known from several other sites in Tanzania and from Shimba Hills in Kenya ( Hoffman 2002).

General distribution: Known from several sites in SE Kenya and NE Tanzania ( Hoffman 2002: fig. 17).

Remarks

The specimen from Rubeho Mts seems to have been dried out and has lost all traces of a colour pattern. The one from Bombo East I FR also looks quite faded. The specimens from North Pare Mts were studied by Sara B. Frederiksen (unpublished report) who found them to have a dark brown, almost black body with only very small and unnoticeable paramedian dark red spot present on the metazona of most body rings.

See Staddon et al. (2002) for information on Bombo East I FR.

Figures

Fig. 3. Heads of odontopygid males, arrows point to distal margin of mandibular stipes. A. Spinotarsus axelisp. nov.,holotype(NHMD621761),distalmarginof stipesconcave/bilobed,as inmostodontopygids. B. Callistodontopyge latifolia (Attems, 1914), specimen from Kiverenge FR (NHMD 621713), distal margin of stipes trilobed as characteristic of this genus. Scale bars=1 mm. Photo S.G. Selvantharan.

Fig. 12. Callistodontopye latifolia (Attems, 1914), two specimens (not collected) from Tanzania, small island at Kwale in Manza Bay, to show the compact body shape and bright colour pattern characteristic of thegenus Callistodontopyge. Photo Claudia Hemp.

Fig. 13. Callistodontopyge latifolia (Attems, 1914), ♂, from Kiverenge FR (NHMD 621713), first pair of legs. A. Sublateral view. B. Anterior view. C. Ventral view. Abbreviations: APS=mesapical prefemoral setae; CXS = coxosternal setae; ss =smaller prefemoral setae. Scale bars =0.2 mm.