Pleonoporus Attems, 1938

Enghoff, Henrik & Akkari, Nesrine, 2022, A new species of the hitherto monospecific genus Pleonoporus Attems, 1938 (Diplopoda, Spirostreptida, Odontopygidae), ZooKeys 1117, pp. 189-202 : 189

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1117.87765

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:2D882D31-2E76-4F9D-AB6B-62B183FFD554

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/38444CC4-B3A8-52A3-8BA0-30CEF945FE9C

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scientific name

Pleonoporus Attems, 1938
status

 

Genus Pleonoporus Attems, 1938

Diagnosis.

Differs from all other genera of Archepyginae by having ozopores on body ring 5, a condition paralleled in the subfamily Peridontopyginae (see Enghoff 2022: 128). In other characters, especially the structure of the gonopod telomere, Pleonoporus resembles the genus Spinotarsus Attems, 1909.

Type species.

Pleonoporus robustus Attems, 1938, by monotypy

Other included species.

Pleonoporus tanzanicus sp. nov.