Pogoro alopias Rosenmejer & Enghoff 2020
- Dataset
- A mountain of millipedes IX: Species of the family Gomphodesmidae from the Udzungwa Mountains, Tanzania (Diplopoda, Polydesmida)
- Rank
- SPECIES
- Published in
- Olsen, Sissel Anna, Rosenmejer, Trine, Enghoff, Henrik (2020): A mountain of millipedes IX: Species of the family Gomphodesmidae from the Udzungwa Mountains, Tanzania (Diplopoda, Polydesmida). European Journal of Taxonomy 675: 1-35, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2020.675
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Arthropoda
- class
- Diplopoda
- order
- Polydesmida
- family
- Gomphodesmidae
- genus
- Pogoro
- species
- Pogoro alopias
description
Description Male SIZE AND SHAPE. Body length ca 53 mm. Maximum width 6.9 mm. W / L ratio 13 %. Height of body ring eight 4.9 mm. H / W ratio = 72 %. COLOUR (Fig. 8). Face, collum, prozona, sterna and metaterga yellow / brown, legs and antennae slightly lighter. STERNAL PROCESS ON BODY RING 6 (Fig. 5 G). Triangular with ‘ wavy’ dark brown edge and long setae. HYPOPROCT. Almost semicircular, with small round median projection, paramedian tubercles projecting beyond edge of sclerite. GONOPOD (Fig. 9). Gonocoxa with paracannular setae. Telopodite endonodal. Process M and L similar in shape and size, both curved laterad. Postnodal teleopodite wide at base, narrowing shortly after, relatively short, curved dorsad. With narrow triangular subapical lobe on lateral side. Solenomere of telopodite narrow and curved anteriad.
description
urn: lsid: zoobank. org: act: 9 FC 7 C 5 B 7 - C 5 E 0 - 4 D 66 - 8 E 9 F-F 1 B 75 EBD 1 AA 0 Figs 2, 5 G, 8 – 9
diagnosis
Diagnosis Differs from other species of the genus by the shape of the postnodal telopodite, which resembles a thresher shark’s tail, and by the triangular shape of the sternal process on segment 6.
distribution
Distribution Known only from the type locality in the Udzungwa Scarp FR (Fig. 2).
etymology
Etymology The name is a noun in apposition, referring to the thresher shark, Alopias vulpinus (Bonnaterre, 1788), and its tail in particular, the shape of which resembles the postnodal teleopodite in the new species.
materials_examined
Material examined Holotype TANZANIA • ♂; Iringa District, Udzungwa Scarp Forest Reserve, 11 km SE of Masisiwe Village, Kihanga Stream; 08 ° 22 ′ 05.7 ″ S, 35 ° 58 ′ 41.6 ″ E, 1800 m a. s. l.; 17 – 27 May 1997; ZMUC and SI Exp. 1997; NHMD 621670. Other material TANZANIA • 1 ♀; same collecting data as for holotype; NHMD 621671.