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Touranella himalayaensis Golovatch 1994

  • 1. Program of Agriculture, Faculty of Agricultural Production, Maejo University, Chiang Mai 50290, Thailand
  • 2. Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninsky pr. 33, Moscow 119071, Russia
  • 3. Department of Biology, Faculty of Natural Science, National University of Laos, P. O. Box 7322, Dongdok, Vientiane, Laos
  • 4. Animal Systematics Research Unit, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok 10330, Thailand & Academy of Science, The Royal Society of Thailand, Bangkok 10300, Thailand
  • 5. Animal Systematics Research Unit, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok 10330, Thailand

Description

Touranella himalayaensis Golovatch, 1994

Touranella himalayaensis Golovatch, 1994: 186 (D).

Touranella himalayaensis – Golovatch 2009 a: 6 (M, K); 2009 b: 120 (M); 2016: 139 (M, K); Golovatch and Semenyuk 2010: 125 (M); 2018: 16 (M); Nguyen and Sierwald 2013: 1180 (L); Nguyen et al. 2023: 170 (M, K).

Remarks.

The original description is based on specimens collected from Paniporua and Dhorpar Kharka, 2,300 –2,700 m a. s. l., in mixed broadleaved or Rhododendron - Lithocarpus forests in Panchthar District, Nepal. The species is considered endemic to Nepal (Golovatch 1994).

Notes

Published as part of Likhitrakarn, Natdanai, Golovatch, Sergei I., Inkhavilay, Khamla, Panha, Somsak & Sutcharit, Chirasak, 2025, Taxonomic review of the millipede genus Touranella Attems, 1937, with a redescription of the type species, T. gracilis Attems, 1937, and descriptions of three new species from Laos (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Paradoxosomatidae), pp. 183-208 in ZooKeys 1238 on pages 183-208, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1238.147550

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References

  • Golovatch SI (1994) Diplopoda from the Himalayas. Two new Alogolykini (Polydesmida: Paradoxosomatidae). Senckenbergiana biologica 73 (1 - 2): 183-187
  • Golovatch SI (2009 a) On several new or poorly-known Oriental Paradoxosomatidae (Diplopoda: Polydesmida), IX. Arthropoda Selecta 18 (3 / 4): 119–124.
  • Golovatch SI, Semenyuk II (2010) On several new or poorly-known Oriental Paradoxosomatidae (Diplopoda: Polydesmida), X. Arthropoda Selecta 19 (3): 123–127. https://doi.org/10.15298/arthsel.19.3.02
  • Nguyen AD, Sierwald P (2013) A worldwide catalog of the family Paradoxosomatidae Daday, 1889 (Diplopoda: Polydesmida). Check List 9 (6): 1132–1353. https://doi.org/10.15560/9.6.1132
  • Nguyen AD, Sierwald P, Ware S (2023) First record of the genus Touranella Attems, 1937 (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Paradoxosomatidae) from Laos, with a description of a new species. ZooKeys 1145: 169–180. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1145.98704
  • Golovatch SI (1994) Diplopoda from the Himalayas. Two new Alogolykini (Polydesmida: Paradoxosomatidae). Senckenbergiana biologica 73 (1–2): 183–187