A mountain of millipedes IV: Species of Prionopetalum Attems, 1909, from the Udzungwa Mountains, Tanzania. With notes on “ P. ” fasciatum (Attems, 1896) and a revised species key (Diplopoda, Spirostreptida, Odontopygidae)
Author
Henrik Enghoff
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European Journal of Taxonomy
2016
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The status of
“
Prionopetalum
”
fasciatum
(
Attems, 1896
)
Attems (1896)
described
Odontopyge fasciata
from
Zanzibar
, but later (1914) transferred the species to
Prionopetalum
without further comment.
Brolemann (1920)
redescribed the species based on new material from
Zanzibar
and expressed doubts about the genus-level classification of it, suggesting that it might belong in a separate subgenus of
Prionopetalum
.
Kraus (1960)
, however, accepted the inclusion of
fasciata
in
Prionopetalum
. In the most recent treatment of
Prionopetalum
VandenSpiegel & Pierrard (2009)
discussed
fasciata
, noticing that it differs from other species of
Prionopetalum
in several characters: the limbus is almost straight, not serrate; there are no ventral tibial pads on male legs; and the proximal telomeral process (
tpp
) is a simple, rounded lobe. The latter authors reported further new material from
Zanzibar
as well as from Bagamoyo District, Vula Mountain, Pongwe, on the Tanzanian mainland.
After having examined several specimens from
Zanzibar
I can now offer a re-classification of this species: