Flagellobolus pauliani 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
Pachybolidae
Flagellobolus

description: <i>Flagellobolus pauliani</i> Wesener, sp. n. urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: ADC7576D-F0BB-4D2B-B29C-23EFBA8679A3 <b>Material examined:</b> 2 &amp;male; <i>Holotype:</i> 1 &amp;male; (31 mm long), MNHN NoNumber, Madagascar, Périnet, rainforest, 18°57’ S, 048°26’ E, leg. R. Paulian, 20.XII.1955, IRSM. <b>Other material examined</b> : 1 &amp;male;, 1 imm., CASENT 9032806, Province d’Antananarivo, 3 km 41°NE Andranomay, 11.5 km 147°SSE Anjozorobe, montane rainforest, 1300 m, 18°28’24” S, 47°57’36” E, leg. Fisher, Griswold et al., pitfall traps, 5–13.XII.2000 <b>Description.</b> <i>Measurements</i>: male holotype with 42 body rings, circa 31 mm long, 2.4 mm wide. <i>Coloration</i> almost completely decolorized because of alcohol, light stripe visible dorsally. <i>Head</i>: each eye with circa 30 ocelli arranged in 5 or 6 vertical rows. Labrum with standard three irregular teeth and a single row of 10–12 stout marginal setae. Clypeus with two setiferous foveolae on each side. Antennal cavity absent. Antennae very long, protruding back to ring 7. Relative lengths of antennomeres: 1&lt;2&gt;3=4=5=6, antennomere 2 longest. Terminal antennomere with four large sensory cones located together inside a membranous area. Antennomere 5 latero-apically four or five rows, antennomere 6 with two or three rows of sensilla basiconica. <i>Gnathochilarium</i>: lamellae linguales each with two standard setae located behind one another. Stipites each with three apical setae. Mentum basally subdivided by a prominent suture. <i>Mandible</i> not dissected. <i>Collum:</i> smooth, laterally not protruding as far as ring 2. <i>Body rings:</i> mostly smooth, with some irregular punctation on mesozona. Ozopores starting at ring 6, touching suture between mesozona and metazona. Ozopore on ring 6 located more ventrally than subsequent ozopores. <i>Telson</i>: anal valves with weakly developed lips, with neither grooves, nor setae (Fig. 23A). Preanal ring and subanal process well-rounded, not extending beyond anal valves. <i>Legs</i>: coxae 1 and 2 elongated and fused with sternum, podomeres from prefemur to tarsus in both sexes each with 4–10 ventral/mesal setae. Length of midbody legs as long as body diameter in males. Each podomere with a single or pair of apical, ventral seta(e). Coxae 3 and beyond of cylindrical shape (Fig. 23B). Tarsus with a stout dorsoapical setae and three pairs of setae; apical pair stout, others successively much smaller. <i>Male sexual characters</i>: tarsal pads absent (Fig. 23B). Coxae 3 and 4 each with a short, conical process. Process protruding posteriorly, but never overlapping adjacent coxa. <i>Anterior gonopod</i> sternite elongated into a wide, triangular lobe with a well-round- ed tip (Fig. 23C). Mesal process of coxite wide, long and well-rounded, shorter than sternite lobe (Fig. 23C). Process of telopodite large and slender, retrorse part not located apically, but basally of process (Fig. 23D). Retrorse projection slender, short with a well-rounded tip (Fig. 23D). <i>Posterior gonopods</i> unique (Figs 23E, F). Gonopod pair connected via a large, well-sclerotized sternite (Fig. 23E). Telopodites positioned parallel to one another. Coxite and telopodite not separated from one another, but dividing suture well-visible (Fig. 23E). Coxite wide, with a single groove and no appendage (Fig. 23F). Telopodite completely elongated into a process, apically tapering (Fig. 23F), very slender. Sperm canal running along mesal margin of telopodite, apically occupying whole width of joint (Fig. 23F). <b>Etymology:</b> <i>pauliani,</i> adjective, after the collector Dr. Renaud Paulian (1913– 2003), who collected numerous interesting millipedes on Madagascar.
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 43-44, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.19.221, http://zenodo.org/record/576503