Glyphiulus beroni, Golovatch & Geoffroy & Mauriès & Spiegel, 2007

Golovatch, Sergei I., Geoffroy, Jean-Jacques, Mauriès, Jean-Paul & Spiegel, Didier Van Den, 2007, Review of the millipede genus Glyphiulus Gervais, 1847, with descriptions of new species from Southeast Asia (Diplopoda, Spirostreptida, Cambalopsidae). Part 1: the granulatus-group, Zoosystema 29 (1), pp. 7-49 : 28-30

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.5392079
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03F4C378-A23A-305F-FF6E-02B6FCCAFAD6
treatment provided by	Marcus
scientific name	Glyphiulus beroni
status	sp. nov.

Treatment

Glyphiulus beroni View in CoL n. sp.

( Figs 15 View FIG ; 16 View FIG )

TYPE MATERIAL. — China. Yunnan Prov., Jianshui County, Cave Ba Guo Dong , 11.I.1989, leg. P. Beron, holotype ♂ ( NMNHS) ; paratypes 2 ♂♂, 6 ♀♀, 3 juv. ( NMNHS) ;

2 ♂♂, 2 ♀♀ ( MNHN GA 038 About MNHN ) ; 1 ♂, 1 ♀ ( ZMUM) ; 1 ♂, 1 ♀ ( ZMUC) ; 1 ♀ ( SEM) .

ETYMOLOGY. — Honours Petar Beron, the collector.

DIAGNOSIS. — Differs by the crests just below and above the ozopore-bearing crests being divided into three, not two, transverse rows of tubercles, coupled with an evident mediodorsal tubercle present in front of the caudal edge of the epiproct.

DESCRIPTION

Length of adults 11-17 (♂) or 12-24 mm (♀), width 0.8-1.0 (♂) or 0.8-1.3 mm (♀). Coloration nearly entirely light yellowish, only ocellaria brown, as well as sometimes a vague lateral line level to ozoporiferous crests.

Adults with 28-40p+5-2a+T (♂) or 28-53p+5- 1a+T (♀); largest juvenile ♂ with 27p+5a+T, largest juvenile ♀ with 27p+4a+T. Length of holotype about 17 mm, width 1.0 mm, with 40p+2a+T.

Carinotaxy of collum typical ( Fig. 15A, B View FIG ), that of trunk segments generally typical but, starting from segment 7 until 6 or 7 penultimate segments, crests just below as well as between ozopores divided into three, not two, transverse rows of tubercles ( Fig. 15C, D View FIG ). An evident middorsal tubercle just above caudal edge of epiproct ( Fig. 15E View FIG ).

Antennae ( Figs 15A, B View FIG ; 16A View FIG ), legs ( Fig. 16B, C View FIG ), claws, posterior gonopods ( Fig. 16E, F View FIG ), etc., as in G. granulatus , but body size (often much larger), segment shape (slightly compressed laterally) and anterior gonopods ( Fig. 16D View FIG ) more like those of G. semigranulatus n. sp. Adults with 5-13 ocelli. Male legs 1 with tubercular leg vestiges near base of prongs ( Fig. 16B View FIG ).

REMARKS

In the absence of any clearly troglomorphic traits, except perhaps for its nearly completely unpigmented body and the somewhat reduced ocellaria, this species can hardly be considered as more than troglophilic.