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Two new species of penicillate millipedes (Diplopoda, Polyxenidae) from Phu Quoc Island in southern Vietnam

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posted on 2018-03-28, 00:00 authored by Cuong HuynhCuong Huynh, Anneke VeenstraAnneke Veenstra
Two new penicillate millipede species from the genera Unixenus and Monographis (Diplopoda, Polyxenidae) were collected from Phu Quoc Island, Vietnam’s largest island. Unixenus intragramineus sp. n. was found within the stem of a creeping grass growing on an unstable, sandy substrate in the intertidal zone. The defining taxonomic characteristics of the genus Unixenus were apparent in U. intragramineus sp. n., but it is distinctively different from all described species. Monographis phuquocensis sp. n. belongs to a group of Monographis species which have their antennal sensilla arranged in a crescent-shape; but the structure of the labrum and telotarsus observed in this new species differs from other described Monographis.

History

Journal

Zootaxa

Volume

4402

Issue

2

Pagination

283 - 302

Publisher

Magnolia Press

Location

Auckland, N.Z.

ISSN

1175-5326

eISSN

1175-5334

Language

eng

Publication classification

C Journal article; C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal

Copyright notice

2018, Magnolia Press