Nepalella grandoides Golovatch, Geoffroy & Mauriès, 2006

Liu, Weixin, Wesener, Thomas, Golovatch, Sergei & Tian, Mingyi, 2017, Contributions to the millipede genus Nepalella Shear, 1979 from China, with four new species and first results on phylogeny based on DNA-barcoding (Diplopoda, Chordeumatida, Megalotylidae), Zootaxa 4243 (3), pp. 455-482 : 471-473

Nepalella grandoides Golovatch, Geoffroy & Mauriès, 2006

Fig. 23

Nepalella grandoides Golovatch, Geoffroy & Mauriès, 2006b: 81 .

Material examined. 2 males, 1 female ( SCAU n14), China, Sichuan, Mianyang, Jiangyou City , Hanzeng Zhen , Cave Shuimen Dong , 31°49’45’’N, 104°35’00’’E, 650 m a.s.l., 2014-VII-17, leg. Weixin Liu, Haomin Yin, Sunbin Huang & Xinhui Wang.

Remarks. This species has been described from two caves in Bechuan County, Sichuan. The new samples collected from a cave in the neighbouring Jiangyou City , Sichuan are generally in good agreement with the original description by Golovatch et al. (2006b). Only the size is smaller: length ca 28.5 (♂) or 30 mm (♀), midbody width 2.5 (♂) or 2.8 mm (♀). Fig. 23 shows the habitus.

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FIGURE 23. N. grandoides Golovatch, Geoffroy & Mauriès, 2006. ♂ from Shuimen Dong Cave. A-B body, dorsal and ventral views, respectively.