Prionobelum Verhoeff, 1924

Donworth, Patrick & Wesener, Thomas, 2024, The first record of the giant pill-millipede genus Prionobelum Verhoeff, 1924 from Thailand, with the integrative description of two species (Diplopoda, Sphaerotheriida, Zephroniidae), Zootaxa 5419 (4), pp. 545-562 : 550

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5419.4.4
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10838573
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Genus Prionobelum Verhoeff, 1924 View in CoL

Prionobelum Verhoeff, 1924: 58 View in CoL (first description); Attems 1926: 120 (list); Attems 1935: 131 (new species); Attems 1936: 153 (list); Attems 1943: 61 (list); Attems 1953: 155 (list); Jeekel 1971: 27 (list); Jeekel 1974: 46 (classification); Hoffman 1976: 119 (classification); Hoffman 1980: 63 (list); Jeekel 2001: 16 (list); Mauriès 2001: 131 (classification); Wesener & VandenSpiegel 2009: 551 (list); Enghoff et al. 2015: 374 (list).

Synonyms:

Chinosphaera Attems, 1935: 130 View in CoL , synonymized by Mauriès 2001: 139. Attems 1936: 153; Attems 1943: 61; Jeekel 1971: 24; Jeekel 1974: 46; Hoffman 1976: 119; Hoffman 1980: 63; Jeekel 2001: 13; Mauriès 2001: 132.

Type-species: Chinosphaera maculosa Attems, 1935 View in CoL .

Remarks: For a recent revision see the literature ( Mauriès 2001). The genus is still ill-defined, especially vis-á-vis the genera Cryxus Leach, 1814 (see Golovatch et al. 2012) and Tigridosphaera Jeekel, 2000 .

Type species: Prionobelum durum Verhoeff, 1924 View in CoL , from Vietnam

Included species:

Prionobelum durum Verhoeff, 1924 ( Vietnam)

Prionobelum hainani ( Gressitt, 1941) ( China: Hainan)

Prionobelum joliveti Mauriès, 2001 ( China: Hainan)

Prionobelum leve ( Attems, 1938) ( Vietnam)

Prionobelum maculosum ( Attems, 1935) ( China: Fukien)

Prionobelum majorinum ( Zhang & Li, 1982) ( China: Hainan)

Prionobelum multidentata ( Wang & Zhang, 1993) ( China: Fujian)

Prionobelum inthanonense n. sp. ( Thailand)

Prionobelum naevium n. sp. ( Thailand)

Distribution: China, Vietnam, Thailand