Desmoxytes scolopendroides Golovatch, Geoffroy & Mauries , 2010

Liu, Weixin, Golovatch, Sergei I. & Tian, Mingyi, 2014, A review of the dragon millipede genus Desmoxytes Chamberlin, 1923 in China, with descriptions of four new species (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Paradoxosomatidae), ZooKeys 448, pp. 9-26 : 17

Taxon classification Animalia Polydesmida Paradoxosomatidae

Desmoxytes scolopendroides Golovatch, Geoffroy & Mauries, 2010

Desmoxytes scolopendroides Golovatch, Geoffroy & Mauriès, 2010: 60.

Desmoxytes scolopendroides - Nguyen and Sierwald 2013: 1242.

Material examined.

1 ♀ (SCAU), China, Guangxi, Du’an County, Gaoling Town, Jinzhu Village, cave I, 24°06.547'N, 108°04.785'E, 190 m, 3.V.2013, leg. Tian Mingyi; 1 ♀ (SCAU), same locality, cave II, 24°06.514'N, 108°04.695'E, 218 m, 3.V.2013, leg. Liu Weixin; 5 ♂, 5 ♀ (SCAU), same county, Xia’ao Town, cave I, 24°15.144'N, 107°56.272'E, 347 m, 2.V.2013, leg. Tian Mingyi, Liu Weixin, Sun Feifei & Yin Haomin; 1 ♀, 4 ♂ juv., 8 ♀ juv. (SCAU), same cave, 28.VI.2013, leg. Tian Mingyi, Liu Weixin, Lin Wei, Yin Haomin & Huang Sunbin; 3 ♂, 3 ♀ (SCAU), same cave, 28.XII.2013, leg. Tian Mingyi, Liu Weixin, Yin Haomin & Luo Xiaozhu.

Remarks.

This species has been described from a cave in Huanjiang County, Guangxi, China while the new samples come from a few more caves in the neighbouring Du’an County, Guangxi. The above material is in good agreement with the original description by Golovatch et al. (2010).