Namibostreptus kymatorhabdus (Attems, 1914)

Vohland, Katrin & Hamer, Michelle, 2013, A review of the millipedes (Diplopoda) of Namibia, with identification keys and descriptions of two new genera and five new species, African Invertebrates 54 (1), pp. 251-251 : 281-282

Namibostreptus kymatorhabdus (Attems, 1914)

Figs 56, 57 Triaenostreptus kymatorhabdus: Attems 1914 a: 151–152 , figs 147–149; 1922: 98; 1928: 366; Schubart

1966: 116; Hoffman 1971: 218; Krabbe 1982: 281; Hamer 1998: 52. Spirostreptus kymatorhabdus: Hoffman 2008: 173 . Namibostreptus kymatorhabdus: Mwabvu et al. 2009: 50 , fig. 8. Diagnosis: Lateral lamella produces a broad, convex-shaped lateral lobe (wider than it is long and distal to median lamella apex), which extends beyond lateral edge of median lamella ( Fig. 57, dp); a smaller more distal lateral, bluntly triangular process is present ( Fig. 57, trp), and a folded apical process ( Fig. 57). Median lamella apically undulate with median acute peak ( Fig. 56). Gonopod femoral process strongly curved ( Fig. 57). Main part of telopodite with single loop, distal to which it abruptly narrows; apically trifurcate ( Figs 56, 57).

Description:

Size: Width of males 9–12 mm, 62–74 segments; length 210 mm.

Colour: Prozonite yellow, metazonite chestnut brown. Legs and antennae dark chestnut brown.

Collum: Anterior corner extended into a short, rounded lateral lobe, with 3–4 complete and 2 or more incomplete folds.

Gonopods: As for diagnosis.

Material examined: NAMIBIA: 1♂ Walvis Bay [22°56'S 14°30'E], Lübbert ( ZMHB 2043 ); 1♂ Windhoek [22°34'12"S 17°05'01"E], Lübbert ( ZMHB 5197 ) .

Distribution: Only known from the Walvis Bay and Windhoek regions ( Mwabvu et al. 2009) ( Fig. 37).