Redescription of the giant Southeast Asian millipede Spirobolusmacrurus Pocock, 1893 and its assignment to the new genus Macrurobolus gen. nov. (Diplopoda, Spirobolida, Pachybolidae)

A new genus of the millipede family Pachybolidae from Southeast Asia is described: Macrurobolusgen. nov., with Spirobolusmacrurus Pocock, 1893 as type species. This latter species is DNA barcoded (COI) and redescribed based on male morphological characters, which hitherto were unknown. The new genus...

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Autores principales: Pimvichai, Piyatida, Enghoff, Henrik, Backeljau, Thierry
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8888539/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35437362
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1087.71280
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author Pimvichai, Piyatida
Enghoff, Henrik
Backeljau, Thierry
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description A new genus of the millipede family Pachybolidae from Southeast Asia is described: Macrurobolusgen. nov., with Spirobolusmacrurus Pocock, 1893 as type species. This latter species is DNA barcoded (COI) and redescribed based on male morphological characters, which hitherto were unknown. The new genus differs from other pachybolid genera by having (1) the preanal ring process long and protruding beyond the anal valves and (2) the anterior gonopod telopodite distally abruptly narrowed, forming an extremely long, slender, elevated process curved caudad. Given that Macrurobolusgen. nov. is a monotypic genus, it is aphyletic and thus requires further taxonomic revision.
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spelling pubmed-88885392022-04-17 Redescription of the giant Southeast Asian millipede Spirobolusmacrurus Pocock, 1893 and its assignment to the new genus Macrurobolus gen. nov. (Diplopoda, Spirobolida, Pachybolidae) Pimvichai, Piyatida Enghoff, Henrik Backeljau, Thierry Zookeys Research Article A new genus of the millipede family Pachybolidae from Southeast Asia is described: Macrurobolusgen. nov., with Spirobolusmacrurus Pocock, 1893 as type species. This latter species is DNA barcoded (COI) and redescribed based on male morphological characters, which hitherto were unknown. The new genus differs from other pachybolid genera by having (1) the preanal ring process long and protruding beyond the anal valves and (2) the anterior gonopod telopodite distally abruptly narrowed, forming an extremely long, slender, elevated process curved caudad. Given that Macrurobolusgen. nov. is a monotypic genus, it is aphyletic and thus requires further taxonomic revision. Pensoft Publishers 2022-02-22 /pmc/articles/PMC8888539/ /pubmed/35437362 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1087.71280 Text en Piyatida Pimvichai, Henrik Enghoff, Thierry Backeljau https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Backeljau, Thierry
Redescription of the giant Southeast Asian millipede Spirobolusmacrurus Pocock, 1893 and its assignment to the new genus Macrurobolus gen. nov. (Diplopoda, Spirobolida, Pachybolidae)
title Redescription of the giant Southeast Asian millipede Spirobolusmacrurus Pocock, 1893 and its assignment to the new genus Macrurobolus gen. nov. (Diplopoda, Spirobolida, Pachybolidae)
title_full Redescription of the giant Southeast Asian millipede Spirobolusmacrurus Pocock, 1893 and its assignment to the new genus Macrurobolus gen. nov. (Diplopoda, Spirobolida, Pachybolidae)
title_fullStr Redescription of the giant Southeast Asian millipede Spirobolusmacrurus Pocock, 1893 and its assignment to the new genus Macrurobolus gen. nov. (Diplopoda, Spirobolida, Pachybolidae)
title_full_unstemmed Redescription of the giant Southeast Asian millipede Spirobolusmacrurus Pocock, 1893 and its assignment to the new genus Macrurobolus gen. nov. (Diplopoda, Spirobolida, Pachybolidae)
title_short Redescription of the giant Southeast Asian millipede Spirobolusmacrurus Pocock, 1893 and its assignment to the new genus Macrurobolus gen. nov. (Diplopoda, Spirobolida, Pachybolidae)
title_sort redescription of the giant southeast asian millipede spirobolusmacrurus pocock, 1893 and its assignment to the new genus macrurobolus gen. nov. (diplopoda, spirobolida, pachybolidae)
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8888539/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35437362
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1087.71280
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