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Hylomus hostilis

  • 1. Institute of Ecology and Biological Resources, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, 18, Hoangquocviet Rd., Hanoi, Vietnam. * Correspondence: E-mail: ducanh 410 @ yahoo. com or ducanh @ iebr. ac. vn & Graduate University of Science and Technology, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, 18, Hoangquocviet Rd., Hanoi, Vietnam
  • 2. Vinh Phuc Gifted High School, Chu Van An Str., Vinh Yen city, Vinh Phuc, Vietnam
  • 3. Institute of Ecology and Biological Resources, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, 18, Hoangquocviet Rd., Hanoi, Vietnam. * Correspondence: E-mail: ducanh 410 @ yahoo. com or ducanh @ iebr. ac. vn

Description

Hylomus hostilis (Golovatch & Enghoff, 1994)

(Figs. 1, 9−10)

Desmoxytes hostilis Golovatch & Enghoff, 1994: 50−51, figs. 11−20.

Hylomus hostilis: Srisonchai et al. 2018a: 10.

Material examined: 1 male, 1 female (IEBR-Myr 601) Vinh Phuc Province, Tam Dao National Park, on the way to Tam Dao 2, 1,100 m, 25 February 2017, coll. Anh D. Nguyen.

Diagnosis: The species can be recognised by the combination of the following characters: paraterga spine-shaped; metaterga with 2 + 2 posterior tubercles/ spines; antenna short and stout; male leg femora 6 and 7 inflated, with modifications (Fig. 9); gonopod femorite subequal to postfemoral region in length; solenophore pointed terminally (Fig. 10).

Previous records: Vinh Phuc Province (Tam Dao National Park) (Golovatch and Enghoff 1994).

Distribution: Only known from northern Vietnam.

Anterior part, lateral view (A), dorsal view (B), ventral view (C). Midbody part, dorsal view (D). Posterior part, lateral view (E), dorsal view (F), ventral view (G). Hypoproct and epiproct, ventral view (H). No scale bars were inserted while taking photographs for this figure. This figure emphasises colouration, shapes of collum (Co), paraterga, metaterga (Me), pleura (Ple), sterna (Ste), epiproct (Epi) and hypoproct (Hy).

Notes

Published as part of Nguyen, Anh D., Nguyen, Manh-Ha, Nguyen, Thu-Anh T. & Phung, Hong-Luong T., 2019, Review of Dragon Millipedes (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Paradoxosomatidae) in the Fauna of Vietnam, with Descriptions of Three New Species, pp. 1-14 in Zoological Studies 58 (14) on page 9, DOI: 10.6620/ZS.2019.58-14, http://zenodo.org/record/8065869

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References

  • Golovatch SI, Enghoff H. 1994. Review of the dragon millipedes, genus Desmoxytes Chamberlin, 1923 (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Paradoxosomatidae). Steenstrupia 20 (2): 45 - 71.
  • Srisonchai R, Enghoff H, Likhitrakarn N, Panha S. 2018 a. A revision of dragon millipedes I: genus Desmoxytes Chamberlin, 1923, with the description of eight new species (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Paradoxosomatidae). Zookeys 761: 1 - 177. doi: 10.3897 / zookeys. 761.24214.