Chaleponcus krai Enghoff 2014, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Enghoff, Henrik
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Diplopoda
Spirostreptida
Odontopygidae
Chaleponcus
Chaleponcus krai

description: Chaleponcus krai sp. nov.
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Figs 4, 9, 19
Diagnosis
Large. Gonopod coxa (Fig. 9) without a lateral process; metaplical shelf-spine long, stout. Telomere with characteristically shaped anterior lamella divided into a horizontal lobe with deeply laciniate edges and a long, straight, distal spine-like part.
Etymology
The name honours Otto Kraus in recognition of his extremely valuable monographs on Odontopygidae; the name is constructed on a pretended Latin origin of his surname.
Material studied (total: 6 ♂♂)
Holotype
TANZANIA: ♂, Iringa Region, Iringa District, New Dabaga / Ulangambi FR, 08°05’ 37.9” S, 35°54’ 05.6” E, fallow/cultivation, 1900–1920 m asl, plot FP, casual, 26–28 Nov. 2000, Frontier Tanzania UMPS leg. (ZMUC).
Paratypes
All from TANZANIA, Iringa Region, Iringa District: 2 ♂♂, data as holotype (ZMUC); 3 ♂♂, Kalimbazi Mtn, near Mazombe, 2000–2100 m asl, forest floor, Jan. 1984, Jan Kielland (VMNH).
Type locality
TANZANIA: Iringa Region, Iringa District, New Dabaga/Ulangambi FR, 08°05’ 37.9” S, 35°54’ 05.6” E, fallow/cultivation, 1900–1920 m asl.
Description (male)
DIAMETER. 3.0– 3.2 mm, 51 podous rings.
COLOUR. After 12 years in alcohol faded, with traces of pale dorsal band, bordered by dark paramedian bands.
ANAL VALVES. Each with a long, slightly curving dorsal spine and a well-developed ventral one; marginal rim raised, setiferous tubercles on ‘ravelins’.
LIMBUS (Fig. 4G). With low, apically truncated and strongly serrated lobes; lobes less than half as long as wide, indistinctly striate on external surface.
TARSAL SETATION. Normal.
GONOPOD COXA (Figs 9, 19). Almost 4 × as long as wide. Lateral margin regularly convex from base to tip; cucullus (cu) small, triangular in outline. Metaplical flange ending in long, triangular process (mfp), pointing distad. Metaplical shelf (ms) regularly rounded, projecting posteriad as well as mesad just distal to arculus. Metaplical shelf-spine (mss) originating from anterior-mesal end of ms, massive, long, regularly curved, first anteriad, then disto-mesad, in situ crossing over with opposite mss.
GONOPOD TELOPODITE (Fig. 19). Solenomere with very long, straight proximal spine (ps), distally with three branches:
• an anterior lamella (al) divided into a horizontal lobe with deeply laciniate edges and a long, straight, distal spine-like part,
• a large, simple intermediate lamella (il), projecting distad and closely appressed to spine-like part of al,
• a small, inconspicuous, rounded posterior lamella (pl).
Distribution and habitat
Known from New Dabaga-Ulangambi FR and from Kalimbazi Mtn, near Mazombe. Altitudinal range: 1900–2100 m asl. Habitat: fallow/cultivation; forest floor.
Coexisting species
In New Dabaga-Ulangambi FR C. gracilior sp. nov. was found in the same sample as C. krai sp. nov. In addition, C. vilici sp. nov., C. teres sp. nov., C. termini sp. nov., C. netus sp. nov., C. nectarinia sp. nov., C. malleolus sp. nov., C. mwabvui sp. nov., C. dabagaensis and C. vandenspiegeli sp. nov. occur in New Dabaga/Ulangambi FR. C. gracilior sp. nov. also occurs on Kalimbazi Mtn.
Note
The anterior telomeral lamella of C. krai sp. nov. is remarkably similar to the posterior lamella in C. nectarinia sp. nov., cf. note in the general description of the C. dabagaensis group.
description: Published as part of Enghoff, Henrik, 2014, A mountain of millipedes I: An endemic species-group of the genus Chaleponcus Attems, 1914, from the Udzungwa Mountains, Tanzania (Diplopoda, Spirostreptida, Odontopygidae), pp. 1-75 in European Journal of Taxonomy 100 (100) on pages 37-39, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2014.100, http://zenodo.org/record/3860450