Chaleponcus Attems 1914
Creators
- 1. Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Universitetsparken 15, DK- 2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark.
Description
Genus Chaleponcus Attems, 1914
Type species
Chaleponcus limbatus Attems, 1914 (Namibia), by subsequent designation of Kraus (1960).
Other included species
Fourty-seven, including five species described as new here, see Kraus (1960, 1966), Frederiksen (2013a), Vohland & Hamer (2013), Enghoff (2014, 2017).
Diagnosis (modified from Enghoff 2014)
Differs from other genera of Prionopetalini by the combination of the following characters: proplica and metaplica of gonopod coxa coming together apically and forming a hoodlike cucullus; solenomere long and whiplike, at least twice as long as telomere if stretched out, not spiraled terminally; solenomere without accessory branches or outgrowths (except for sometimes at the very base); telomere proximally folded like a tube or a trough and distally dividing into two or three diverging lamellae.
Remarks
About half of the described species occur in southern Africa as far north as Zimbabwe and southern Mozambique (Enghoff 2014). Further north, the genus is represented in the Eastern Arc by C. parensis Frederiksen, 2013, five new species described here and, notably, by the the Chaleponcus dabagaensis group with 21 species in the Udzungwa Mts and C. altirungwensis Enghoff, 2017 from Mt. Rungwe (Enghoff 2014, 2017).
Chaleponcus schioetzae sp. nov. and C. soerensenae sp. nov., both from the Uluguru Mts, are very similar, sharing among other things a large metaplical palette; they could be placed in a separate species group, the C. schioetzae group, see remarks under C. schioetzae sp. nov. below.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Odontopygidae
- Genus
- Chaleponcus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Spirostreptida
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Attems
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Taxonomic concept label
- Chaleponcus Attems, 1914 sec. Enghoff, 2022
References
- Attems C. G. 1914. Afrikanische Spirostreptiden nebst Uberblick uber die Spirostreptiden orbis terrarum. Zoologica Stuttgart 65 - 66: 1 - 233.
- Kraus O. 1960. Athiopische Diplopoden I. Monographie der Odontopygidae-Odontopyginae (Diplopoda, Spirostreptoidea). Annalen van het Koninklijk Museum van Belgisch-Congo 82: 1 - 207.
- Kraus O. 1966. Phylogenie, Chorologie und Systematik der Odontopygoideen (Diplopoda, Spirostreptomorpha). Abhandlungen der senckenbergischen naturforschenden Gesellschaft 512: 1 - 143.
- Frederiksen S. B. 2013 a. East African odontopygid millipedes 2: A new, geographically disjunct species of Chaleponcus (Attems 1914) from the Pare Mts., Tanzania (Diplopoda, Spirostreptida, Odontopygidae). Zootaxa 3636 (4): 597 - 600. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3636.4.7
- Vohland K. & Hamer M. 2013. A review of the millipedes (Diplopoda) of Namibia, with identification keys and descriptions of two new genera and five new species. African Invertebrates 54: 251 - 304. https: // doi. org / 10.5733 / afin. 054.0112
- Enghoff H. 2014. A mountain of millipedes I: an endemic species-group of the genus Chaleponcus Attems, 1914, from the Udzungwa Mountains, Tanzania (Diplopoda, Spirostreptida, Odontopygidae). European Journal of Taxonomy 100: 1 - 75. https: // doi. org / 10.5852 / ejt. 2014.100