The millipede genus Anoplodesmus Pocock, 1895, recorded in Taiwan for the first time, with descriptions of two new species (Diplopoda: Polydesmida: Paradoxosomatidae: Sulciferini)

Abstract

The large, South and Southeast Asian millipede genus Anoplodesmus is rediagnosed and here reported from Taiwan for the first time, with two new, apparently northeasternmost species involved: A. spiniger sp. nov. and A. aspinosus sp. nov. Both of these congeners differ from each other primarily in several details of gonopod structure. “Takao”, the type locality of Geniculodesmus inexpectatus (Attems, 1944), is here rectified as actually being the same as Kaohsiung, Taiwan, not “Mount Takao, Hachiouji-shi, Tokyo Prefecture, Japan”.

On several new or poorly-known Oriental Paradoxosomatidae (Diplopoda: Polydesmida), XIII

“…Some of the species display intermediate conditions, the reason why both of these species complexes are being considered as representing a single genus. The distribution of both complexes fails to show any meaningful patterns, with simpler or more complex gonopod-bearing congeners occurring more or less randomly across almost any part of the generic range [Chen et al, 2010a].…”

“…REMARKS. Anoplodesmus Pocock, 1895 is a large genus encompassing over 30 species or subspecies from southern and northern India and Sri Lanka in the west, through the Himalaya, Myanmar and Sumatra, to mainland Malaysia, mainland Thailand, as well as Vietnam and Taiwan in the east [Chen et al, 2010a;Nguyen, 2010]. Some of the species show rather evident paraterga and particularly simple gonopods, whereas the others have strongly reduced, vestigial to totally suppressed paraterga, often conspicuous sternal cones in both sexes, ventral brushes on some tibiae and tarsi, as well as highly complex/elaborate gonopods.…”

Revision of the endemic Taiwanese millipede genus Aponedyopus Verhoeff, 1939, with descriptions of two new species (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Paradoxosomatidae)

“…The distribution of Aponedyopus species in Taiwan shows allopatry. Syntopic occurrences are nearly missing, a feature already reported, e.g., for the paradoxosomatid genus Anoplodesmus ( Chen et al 2010 ), but contrasting with several other adequately known diplopod groups in Taiwan, in which 2–3 congeners are often capable of sharing the same habitat ( Chen et al 2006 ; Golovatch et al 2010 ; Mikhaljova et al 2010 ).…”

An Updated Checklist and Perspective Study of Millipedes (Arthropoda: Myriapoda: Diplopoda) in the Korean Peninsula

“…Therefore, further in-depth surveys of the millipedes of Korea are warranted. Mikhaljova (2004); Japan from Murakami (1993); Taiwan from Korsós (2004) plus Chen et al (2006Chen et al ( , 2008Chen et al ( , 2010, Mikhaljova et al (2010); and Vietnam from Enghoff et al (2004), plus Nguyen et al (2005), Golovatch and Nguyen (2007), Nguyen (2009Nguyen ( , 2010aNguyen ( , 2010bNguyen ( , 2011Nguyen ( , 2012.…”