Three new species of the millipede genus Tylopus Jeekel, 1968 from Thailand, with additional notes on the species described by Attems (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Paradoxosomatidae)

Natdanai Likhitrakarn; Sergei I Golovatch; Somsak Panha

doi:10.3897/zookeys.435.8286

Three new species of the millipede genus Tylopus Jeekel, 1968 from Thailand, with additional notes on the species described by Attems (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Paradoxosomatidae)

Zookeys. 2014 Aug 18:(435):63-91. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.435.8286. eCollection 2014.

Authors

Natdanai Likhitrakarn¹, Sergei I Golovatch², Somsak Panha³

Affiliations

¹ Division of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agricultural Production, Maejo University, Chiang Mai, 50290, Thailand.
² Institute for Problems of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninsky pr. 33, Moscow 119071, Russia.
³ Animal Systematics Research Unit, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, 10330, Thailand.

Abstract

Tylopus currently comprises 55 species, including three new from Thailand: T. corrugatus sp. n., T. trigonum sp. n. and T. parahilaroides sp. n. A new distribution map and an updated key to all 29 species of Tylopus presently known to occur in Thailand are given. Illustrated redescriptions of all four Indochinese Tylopus species described by Carl Attems are also provided, based on type material.

Keywords: Millipede; Thailand; Tylopus; key; new species; taxonomy.