Two new species, including one representing a new genus, of the West African millipede family Campodesmidae (Diplopoda: Polydesmida)

  • Didier VandenSpiegel Musée Royal de l’Afrique Centrale, B-3480 Tervuren
  • Sergei I. Golovatch Institute for Problems of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninsky prospekt 33, Moscow 119071
  • Armand R. Nzoko Fiemapong Laboratoire de Zoologie, Université Yaoundé 1, BP812
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2015.139
Keywords: Myriapoda, taxonomy, Ivory Coast, Cameroon

Abstract

A new genus, Campodesmoides gen. nov., is described to only encompass C. corniger sp. nov., from Cameroon. This genus and species is distinguished from the few known species of the small western African family Campodesmidae, all currently in Campodesmus, by the much longer antennae and legs, the normal pore formula with ozopores borne on porosteles, and the suberect and distally twisted gonopod, coupled with peculiar horns on a few anterior postcollum segments. A new Campodesmus is also described, C. alobatus sp. nov., from Ivory Coast, which differs from congeners primarily in the lack of a dorsal/lateral lobe on the otherwise usual and strongly subcircular gonopod telopodite, albeit the latter is not directed mesad, but held subparallel to the main body axis.

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Published
2015-09-28
How to Cite
VandenSpiegel, D., Golovatch, S. I., & Nzoko Fiemapong, A. R. (2015). Two new species, including one representing a new genus, of the West African millipede family Campodesmidae (Diplopoda: Polydesmida). European Journal of Taxonomy, (139). https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2015.139
Issue
No. 139 (2015): Two new species, including one representing a new genus, of the West African millipede family Campodesmidae (Diplopoda: Polydesmida)
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Zoology
Copyright (c) 2015 Didier VandenSpiegel, Sergei I. Golovatch, Armand R. Nzoko Fiemapong

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