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Polydrepanum undefined-3

  • 1. Institute for Problems of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninsky pr. 33, Moscow 11907, Russia.
  • 2. Centre for Animal Taxonomy and Ecology (CATE), Christ College, Irinjalakuda, Kerala, India. & aswathym. das 94 @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 3904 - 8066
  • 3. Centre for Animal Taxonomy and Ecology (CATE), Christ College, Irinjalakuda, Kerala, India. & spidersudhi @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 4479 - 4995

Description

Polydrepanum sp. 3

(= Delarthrum sp.)

Figs 25, 26

Polydrepanum sp. nov.— Bano & Murthy, 1997: 162, fig. 12 (D). India, Karnataka.

Polydrepanum sp. 3 — Sankaran & Sebastian, 2018: 171, fig. 6F (D).

Remarks. An unnamed species from an unspecified locality in Karnataka state, India, the right gonopod of which has been presented in a crude sketch by Bano and Murthy (1997), reproduced here in Figs 25 and 26. Because this species, albeit to be neglected in also being unnamed and based on material of unknown provenance and whereabouts, seems to show an untwisted gonofemorite, no basal loop of the solenomere, and a tripartite and complex solenophore, the distoventral half of which is distinctly enlarged, curved and acuminate, but the ventrobasal part bearing a process, it cannot be a Polydrepanum (cf. Figs 17–20 and 25, 26). Instead, this species so readily resembles the new Delarthrum to be described below that both these species are clearly congeneric, yet representing a genus different from Polydrepanum.

Notes

Published as part of Golovatch, Sergei I., Aswathy, Mathilakath Dasan, Bhagirathan, Usha & Sudhikumar, Ambalaparambil Vasu, 2021, Review of the millipede tribe Polydrepanini, with the description of a new species from Kerala state, southern India (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Paradoxosomatidae, Alogolykinae), pp. 485-516 in Zootaxa 5068 (4) on pages 495-496, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5068.4.2, http://zenodo.org/record/5709510

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References

  • Bano, K. & Murthy, J. B. (1997) Gonopods of some South Indian paradoxosomatid millipedes (Diplopoda, Polydesmida). Entomologica Scandinavica, Supplement 51, 155 - 162.
  • Sankaran, P. M. & Sebastian, P. A. (2018) A new species of and a new transfer from the millipede genus Polydrepanum Carl, 1932 (Polydesmida, Paradoxosomatidae, Polydrepanini). Zootaxa, 4471 (1), 169 - 178. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4471.1.8