Hylekobolus analavelona Wesener &amp; Enghoff &amp; Sierwald 2009, sp. n.
Creators: name: Wesener, Thomas
name: Enghoff, Henrik
name: Sierwald, Petra
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Diplopoda
Spirobolida
Spirobolellidae
Hylekobolus

description: <i>Hylekobolus analavelona</i> Wesener, sp. n. urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: 769102C4-C297-4628-85AA-B87EEB70DF3E <b>Material examined:</b> 4 &amp;male;, 6 &amp;female;, 3 imm. <i>Holotype:</i> 1 &amp;male; (56 mm long), FMMC 5429, Province Toliara, Forêt de Analavelona, near spring of Manasay River, undisturbed mid-elevation forest with dry and humid elements, 1250 m, 22°38.6’ S, 44°10.3’ E, leg. S. Goodman, 2–8.XI.2000, pitfall trap. <i>Paratypes:</i> 4 &amp;female;, 2 imm., FMMC 5429, same data as holotype. <b>Other material examined:</b> 3 &amp;male;, 2 &amp;female;, 1 imm., CAS BLF 7819 (kmp-fm-068), Province Toliara, Forêt de Analavelona, montane rainforest, 1100 m, 22°40’30’’ S, 44°11’24’’ E, leg. Griswold, Fisher et al., 18–22.XI.2003. <b>Differential diagnosis:</b> <i>H. analavelona</i> has a unique green/brown colour pattern (Figs 62A, B). The colour pattern and gonopods clearly identify this species. The gonopods feature a unique combination of characters: the anterior gonopods carry a short mesal coxite process (Fig. 62D), the retrorse telopodite process is wide and projecting (Fig. 62F), the apical process (<i>x</i>) of the posterior gonopods is 4–5 times wider than the sperm canal (Fig. 62E). <b>Description.</b> <i>Measurements</i>: male holotype with 45 rings, 56 mm long, 3.6 mm wide. Females with 45 rings, 49–56mm long, 4.65–5.1 mm wide. <i>Coloration:</i> collum and posterior half of body rings light brown (Fig. 62A). Body rings in anterior half only laterally with dark green colour, dorsally light brown. Each body ring dorsally with an isolated dark green spot. Legs and antennae light brown (Fig. 62B). <i>Eyes</i> with 32–34 ocelli (Fig. 62A). <i>Anterior gonopod</i> sternite basally wide, apically elevated into a wide, well-rounded rectangular process (Fig. 62D). Mesal process of coxite wide and only slightly protruding (Fig. 62D). Apical telopodite process large and well-rounded. Retrorse margin wide, projecting above telopodite margin (Fig. 62F); margin basally of apical process not projecting (Fig. 62F). <i>Posterior gonopods</i> telopodite bent 90° (Fig. 62G). Projection absent from lateral margin (<i>w</i>, Fig. 62E). Tip of apical process (<i>x</i>) sharp-edged, basally slender, 4–5 times as wide as sperm canal (Fig. 62E). Membranous lobe (<i>y</i>) large and well-rounded (Fig. 62E). Projection of sperm canal (<i>z</i>) long and slender, running parallel to apical process (Fig. 62E). <b>Distribution and ecology</b> : only known from the Analavelona Mountain (Fig. 54), an isolated hilltop with rainforest in the otherwise dry southwestern region of Madagascar (DuPuy and Moat 2007). <b>Etymology:</b> <i>analavelona</i>, noun in apposition, after the only place where this species can be found, the Analavelona Mountain (Fig. 54).
description: Published as part of <i>Wesener, Thomas, Enghoff, Henrik &amp; Sierwald, Petra, 2009, Review of the Spirobolida on Madagascar, with descriptions of twelve new genera, including three genera of ' fire millipedes' (Diplopoda), pp. 1-128 in ZooKeys 19 (19)</i> on pages 112-114, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.19.221, http://zenodo.org/record/576503
description: {"references": ["Moat J, Smith P (2007) Atlas of the Vegetation of Madagascar. Kew Publishing, London, 124 pp."]}