Pauropoda (Myriapoda) from Sabah (East Malaysia) (Pauropoda and Symphyla of the Geneva Museum XI)

Abstract

Mount Kinabalu. Almost all samples were taken in primary rain forests, from dipterocarp lowland forests at 30 m a.s.l. to Lithocarpus-Castanopsis forests at 3270 m. Animals were collected from litter and subsoil mainly by means of automatical extraction (Berlese funnels and Winkler-Moczarski apparatus) and to a less degree manually. Fourteen species are present in the material collected by Dr Hauser. They belong to 7 genera in 3 families: 4 in Pauropodidae {Allopauropus, Pauropus, Stylopauropus, Hemipauropus), one in Brachypauropodidae (Brachypauropoides) and 2 in Eurypauropodidae (Samarangopus, Sphaeropauropus). With this material it has been possible to add 12 species to the Bornean fauna and to describe 9 new species. The latter are Allopauropus kinabaluensis sp.

Pauropoda (Myriapoda) from indigenous high‐country tussock grassland in New Zealand with descriptions of two new genera and eight new species

“…Three species have earlier been described in the genus, two from East Malaysia, Sabah, B. penanorum (Scheller 1994) (in Scheller et al . 1994) and B. prolatus (Scheller 2001) and B. curtipes Scheller from Indonesia, Sulawesi (Scheller 2009). The new species has most in common with the Malaysian B. prolatus but can be distinguished from it by the size of the anterior head setae, distinctly smaller than posterior setae in B. neozelandicus , indistinctly smaller in B. prolatus , by the shape of the process of the collum segment, lengthened narrow, not roundly triangular, and the anal plate, with lateral corners, not evenly rounded.…”

New records of Pauropoda (Myriapoda) from New Zealand with descriptions of four new species and a new family Eirmopauropodidae

“…However, Hilton's pictures are often of low quality and misleading and future studies will reveal whether there are more than one species in New Zealand with this striking tergite character. Similar but less conspicuous endocuticular network of canals are known from S. proekes Scheller from Sabah (Scheller 2001b), S. trilix Scheller from Malaysia (Scheller 2007), S. jemlahicus Scheller from Nepal (Scheller 2001a) and S. rwandaensis Scheller from Rwanda (Scheller 2003). Samarangopus constellatus may be closest to the species from Nepal and Malaysia because of similarities in the structure of the epicuticular organs.…”

Pauropoda (Myriapoda) in Australia, with descriptions of new species from Western Australia

“…The islands of Further India in Indonesia, Philippines and Malaysia are only partly investigated (Scheller et al 1994, Scheller 2001, 2003, 2007b but fi ve families have been reported, three of them shared Australia. Among 51 known species only one has also been collected in Australia, the wide-spread Decapauropus proximus.…”