Review of the Millipede Genus Pacidesmus Golovatch, 1991, with Descriptions of Three New Species from Caves in Southern China (Diplopoda: Polydesmida: Polydesmidae)

Authors

  • SERGEI I. GOLOVATCH Institute for Problems of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninsky pr. 33, Moscow 119071 RUSSIA
  • JEAN-JACQUES GEOFFROY Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Département Ecologie et Gestion de la Biodiversité, UMR 7179 du CNRS, Equipe EVOLTRAIT, 4, Avenue du Petit Château, F-91800 Brunoy, FRANCE
  • JEAN-PAUL MAURIÈS Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Département Systématique et Evolution, UMR7205, Case postale 53, 61, rue Buffon, F-75231 Paris, FRANCE

Keywords:

Diplopoda, Pacidesmus, new species, key, cave, China

Abstract

The small Southeast to East Asian genus Pacidesmus currently encompasses seven species, all keyed and mapped, including three new from caves in Guangxi Province, China: P. tiani n. sp., P. bedosae n. sp. and P. armatus n. sp. All six congeners from southern China have only been found in caves, all likely representing troglobites, whereas the sole epigean species is known from a high-montane forest in northern Thailand. Such a vast disjunction is certainly due to undercollecting, also meaning a far more diverse fauna of Pacidesmus to actually exist.

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2010-10-01

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GOLOVATCH, S.I., GEOFFROY, J.-J. and MAURIÈS, J.-P. 2010. Review of the Millipede Genus Pacidesmus Golovatch, 1991, with Descriptions of Three New Species from Caves in Southern China (Diplopoda: Polydesmida: Polydesmidae). Tropical Natural History. 10, 2 (Oct. 2010), 159–169.

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Vol. 10 No. 2 (2010): October

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Original Articles

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