Dalodesmus odontopezus ( Attems, 1898 )

Wesener, Thomas, Akkari, Nesrine & Golovatch, Sergei I., 2025, Revision of the millipede family Dalodesmidae in Madagascar, with descriptions of two new Malagasy species of Dalodesmus Cook, 1896 (Diplopoda, Polydesmida), ZooKeys 1223, pp. 185-220 : 185-220

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Dalodesmus odontopezus ( Attems, 1898) View in CoL

Fig. 9 View Figure 9

Tubercularium odontopezum Attems, 1898: 360, plate 7, figs 158–161 (D). View in CoL

Polydesmus (Tubercularium) odontopezum (sic!) – de Saussure and Zehntner 1902: 89 (D).

Tubercularium odontopezum View in CoL – Attems 1940: 435, fig. 618 (D, K).

Dalodesmus odontopezum View in CoL (sic!) – Hoffman 1974: 230 (L).

Dalodesmus odontopezus View in CoL – Jeekel 1965: 238 (L); Golovatch and Hoffman 1989: 161 (L); Enghoff 2003: 623 (L); Wesener and Enghoff 2022: 926 (L).

Note.

This species was described from a single ♂ holotype, from Nosy Be Islet ( Attems 1898), slide NHMW MY 4429 containing its two legs and gonopods (Fig. 9 C View Figure 9 ), labelled Tubercularium odontopezum ( Attems, 1898) , revised, in the NHMW collection. The torso seems to be misplaced.

Brief description.

(After Attems 1898, 1940.) ♂ holotype 28 mm long and 2.0 and 3.5 mm wide on pro- and metazona, respectively. Colouration of metaterga more intense brown in posterior halves, lighter in anterior ones; sides of paraterga yellowish, venter light yellowish brown, antennae and legs dirty yellow. Paraterga horizontal, not upturned above dorsum, sharpened caudally; dorsal tuberculations between paraterga mostly round (Fig. 9 A View Figure 9 ).

Gonopods (Fig. 9 B, C View Figure 9 ) showing setose femorites (fe), each with a small roundish, pulvillus-like field (p) of particularly dense setae ventrally near apex, coupled with complex acropodites: a slightly sigmoid and apically bifid solenomere (sl) lying between the highest, erect and subspiniform mesal branch (mb) and a much shorter, but prominent, roughly laciniate and fimbriate lateral branch (lb) directed ventrad.

References

Attems C (1898) System der Polydesmiden. I. Theil. Denkschriften der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Wien, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Classe 67: 221 - 482.

Attems C (1898) System der Polydesmiden. I. Theil. Denkschriften der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Wien, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Classe 67: 221–482.

Attems C (1940) Myriapoda 3. Polydesmoidea III. Fam. Polydesmidae, Vanhoeffeniidae, Cryptodesmidae, Oniscodesmidae, Sphaerotrichopidae, Peridontodesmidae, Rhachidesmidae, Macellolophidae, Pandirodesmidae. Das Tierreich 70, i – xvii + 1–577. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111609645.1

de Saussure H, Zehntner L (1902) Myriapodes de Madagascar. In: Grandidier A (Ed.) Histoire physique, naturelle et politique de Madagascar. Imprimérie nationale, Paris, 1–356.

Enghoff H (2003) Diplopoda, millipedes. In: Goodman SM, Benstead JP (Eds) The Natural History of Madagascar. University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London, 617–627.

Golovatch SI, Hoffman RL (1989) Identity of Polydesmus hamatus Brandt 1841, a Malagasy milliped (Diplopoda Polydesmida Dalodesmidae). Tropical Zoology 2: 159–164. https://doi.org/10.1080/03946975.1989.10539436

Hoffman RL (1974) Short studies on dalodesmid millipeds from South Africa and Madagascar. Wasmann Journal of Biology 32 (2): 221–246.

Jeekel CAW (1965) The identity of Dalodesmus tectus Cook, 1896, and the status of the family names Dalodesmidae Cook, 1896, Vanhoeffeniidae Attems, 1914 and Sphaeriotrichopodidae Attems, 1914 (Diplopoda, Polydesmida). Entomologische Berichten 25: 236–239.

Wesener T, Enghoff H (2022) Diplopoda, millipedes, Menavetraka, Ankodabitra, Ankodiavitry, Marotanana, Sakolavitsy. In: Fisher BL, Goodman SM (Eds) The New Natural History of Madagascar. Princeton University Press USA, 918–933. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv2ks6tbb.118

Figures

Figure 9. Dalodesmus odontopezus (Attems, 1898), ♂ holotype A right paratergum 14, dorsal view (after Attems 1898) B slide of holotype C both gonopods, ventral view (after Attems 1940) D both gonopods, ventral view (slide NHMW MY 4429, photograph by O. Macek) E midbody leg. Abbreviations: lb = lateral branch; mb = mesal branch; pfe = prefemorite; sl = solenomere branch. Scale bars: 500 µm.