Udzungwastreptus Enghoff & Ngute & Kwezaura & Laizzer & Lyatuu & Mhagawale & Mnendendo & Marshall 2024, gen. nov.
Authors/Creators
- 1. Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Universitetsparken 15, DK- 2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark.
- 2. Forest Research Institute, University of the Sunshine Coast, Sippy Downs, Queensland, Australia.
- 3. Reforest Africa, Mang'ula, Kilombero District, Tanzania.
- 4. Udzungwa Ecological Monitoring Centre, Udzungwa Mountains National Park, Mang'ula, Kilombero District, Tanzania.
- 5. Forest Research Institute, University of the Sunshine Coast, Sippy Downs, Queensland, Australia. & Reforest Africa, Mang'ula, Kilombero District, Tanzania. & Flamingo Land Ltd., Kirby Misperton, North Yorkshire, UK.
Description
Genus Udzungwastreptus Enghoff gen. nov.
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Type species
Udzungwastreptus marianae Enghoff gen. et sp. nov.
Other included species
None.
Diagnosis
Differs from other trachystreptoform genera by the combination of an unmodified anterior margin of the collum, largely hairless prefemoral lobes of the first pair of male legs, closely appressed to the coxosternum, a ribbon-like free part of the telopodite with a slender accessory lobe branching off ca at midlength, and a simple solenomere originating subapically from the margin of the telopodite.
Etymology
Named after the Udzungwa Mountains, in recognition of their astonishing biological richness; ‘- streptus ’ is a common ending of names of genera of Spirostreptidae, probably derived from the Greek ‘ streptos ’, meaning twisted. Masculine.
Remarks
Udzungwastreptus gen. nov. belongs in group “γ) Télopodite en gouttière ou en bandelette” (telopodite like a gutter or a ribbon) of Demange & Mauriès, 1975. In the key to trachystreptinine genera of Demange & Mauriès (1975), Udzungwastreptus runs to Calostreptus Cook, 1896 with which it shares the lamellate borders of the posttorsal telopodite and the slender solenomere originating from the margin of the telopodite. Also, the prefemoral lobes of the first pair of legs is similar in the two genera (very flat, closely appressed to coxosternum). The new genus differs from Calostreptus as shown in Table 3. See Fig. 24.
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Additional details
Identifiers
- URL
- http://zoobank.org/83A888D7-740C-4F3A-AEE0-09B56F6FCA92
- URL
- http://treatment.plazi.org/id/714A87FAFFD4E051CF2FFB75AB77EB48
- LSID
- urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:83A888D7-740C-4F3A-AEE0-09B56F6FCA92
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Enghoff & Ngute & Kwezaura & Laizzer & Lyatuu & Mhagawale & Mnendendo & Marshall
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Spirostreptida
- Family
- Spirostreptidae
- Genus
- Udzungwastreptus
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Taxonomic status
- gen. nov.
- Taxonomic concept label
- Udzungwastreptus Enghoff, 2024
References
- Demange J. - D. & Mauries J. - P. 1975. Myriapodes-Diplopodes des Monts Nimba et Tonkoui (Cote d'Ivoire, Guinee) recoltes par M. Lamotte et ses collaborateurs de 1942 a 1950. Etude systematique, caracterisation des siopsiulides africains, revision de Trachystreptini, essai de classification des Cordyloporidae. Annales du Musee royale de l'Afrique centrale - Tervuren, Belgique - Serie in- 8 o - Sciences zoologiques 212: 1 - 192.
- Cook O. F. 1896. The genera of Trachystreptidae. Brandtia 13: 55 - 58.