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Nepalella grandoides Golovatch, Geoffroy & Mauries 2006

Description

Nepalella grandoides Golovatch, Geoffroy & Mauriès, 2006

Fig. 23

Nepalella grandoides Golovatch, Geoffroy & Mauriès, 2006b: 81.

Material examined. 2 males, 1 female (SCAU n14), China, Sichuan, Mianyang, Jiangyou City, Hanzeng Zhen, Cave Shuimen Dong, 31°49’45’’N, 104°35’00’’E, 650 m a.s.l., 2014-VII-17, leg. Weixin Liu, Haomin Yin, Sunbin Huang & Xinhui Wang.

Remarks. This species has been described from two caves in Bechuan County, Sichuan. The new samples collected from a cave in the neighbouring Jiangyou City, Sichuan are generally in good agreement with the original description by Golovatch et al. (2006b). Only the size is smaller: length ca 28.5 (♂) or 30 mm (♀), midbody width 2.5 (♂) or 2.8 mm (♀). Fig. 23 shows the habitus.

Notes

Published as part of Liu, Weixin, Wesener, Thomas, Golovatch, Sergei & Tian, Mingyi, 2017, Contributions to the millipede genus Nepalella Shear, 1979 from China, with four new species and first results on phylogeny based on DNA-barcoding (Diplopoda, Chordeumatida, Megalotylidae), pp. 455-482 in Zootaxa 4243 (3) on pages 471-473, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4243.3.3, http://zenodo.org/record/400124

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
SCAU
Event date
2014-07-17
Family
Lankasomatidae
Genus
Nepalella
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Chordeumatida
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Golovatch, Geoffroy & Mauries
Species
grandoides
Taxon rank
species
Verbatim event date
2014-07-17
Taxonomic concept label
Nepalella grandoides Golovatch, 2006 sec. Liu, Wesener, Golovatch & Tian, 2017

References

  • Golovatch, S. I., Geoffroy, J. - J. & Mauriѐs, J. - P. (2006 b) Several new or poorly-known cavernicolous millipedes (Diplopoda) from southern China. Arthropoda Selecta, 15 (2), 81 - 89.