Revision of the endemic Taiwanese millipede genus Aponedyopus Verhoeff, 1939, with descriptions of two new species (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Paradoxosomatidae). Advances in the systematica of Diplopoda III

Chao-Chun Chen; Sergei I Golovatch; Hsueh-Wen Chang

doi:10.3897/zookeys.72.743

Revision of the endemic Taiwanese millipede genus Aponedyopus Verhoeff, 1939, with descriptions of two new species (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Paradoxosomatidae). Advances in the systematica of Diplopoda III

Zookeys. 2010 Dec 17:(72):1-21. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.72.743.

Authors

Chao-Chun Chen¹, Sergei I Golovatch, Hsueh-Wen Chang

Affiliation

¹ Department of Biological Sciences, National Sun Yat-Sen University, 70 Lien-hai Rd. Kaohsiung, Taiwan 804, ROC.

Abstract

The millipede genus Aponedyopus is endemic to Taiwan and contains three species. All previously described nominal species are considered to represent one species: Aponedyopus montanus Verhoeff, 1939 (the type species), including Aponedyopus reesi (Wang, 1957) and Aponedyopus maculatus Takakuwa, 1942, syn. n. Two further species are described as new: Aponedyopus similissp. n. and Aponedyopus latilobatussp. n. The genus is re-diagnosed, all of its three species are keyed, and their distributions mapped.

Keywords: Aponedyopus; Millipede; Taiwan; distribution; key; new species; taxonomy.