Epanerchodus koreanus Verhoeff, 1937

Golovatch, S. I., 2014, Review of the millipede genus Epanerchodus Attems, 1901 in continental China, with descriptions of new species (Diplopoda: Polydesmidae), Zootaxa 3760 (2), pp. 275-288 : 276

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3760.2.7
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:16BD8ED0-5BCA-42B4-A777-4D77B3AD5928
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6138354
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scientific name	Epanerchodus koreanus Verhoeff, 1937
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Epanerchodus koreanus Verhoeff, 1937 View in CoL

Epanerchodus View in CoL koreanus— Mikhaljova 2004: 215 (a detailed description and a complete bibliography list).

Material examined: 1 male, 1 female (NEIGAE), 1 male ( ZMUM), China, Jilin Prov., Changbai Shan Mts, Changbai Shan National Park, ca 128º50’E, 42º00’N, 1420–1500 m a.s.l., mixed forest, dead wood, September 2013, leg. D. Wu.

Remarks. This species is easily distinguished by its particularly broad and usually dark reddish-brown paraterga, coupled with a quite stable gonopod structure, including a bifid exomere ( Mikhaljova 2004). It has hitherto been known throughout Korea, as well as in Kyushu, Japan and the Maritime Province, Russia ( Mikhaljova 2004). The above samples thus represent the first formal record of E. koreanus in China.