Alluviobolus antanosy 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
Alluviobolus

description: <i>Alluviobolus antanosy</i> Wesener, sp. n. urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: 1AAC85EB-6256-450E-B461-707D235E61BA <b>Material examined:</b> 5 &amp;male;, 7 &amp;female;, 4 imm Holotype: 1 &amp;male; (45 mm long), FMMC W100 A, Madagascar, Province Toliara, Ambatotsirongorongo Mountain, Grand Lavasoa, 25°5’10.23” S, 46°44’55.93” E, rainforest, leg. T. Wesener et al., 14.IV.2007. <i>Paratypes:</i> 1 &amp;male;, 1 F., FMMC W100 A, same data as previous; 1 &amp;male;, FMMC, Province Toliara, Sainte Luce, S 9, littoral forest on sand, 24°47’ S, 47°10’ E, leg. T. Wesener, 06.IV.2003; 1 &amp;male;, FMMC 13608, Province Toliara, Esetra, Mt. Mahermana, 340 m, station 1, summit, 0° slope, frequent granite outcrops, 24°26’12” S, 47°13’13” E, leg. K. Emberton, 25.I.1995; 1 &amp;male;, 2 &amp;female;, FMMC W049 A, Andohahela I, Isaka-Ivondro Sud, rainforest, 24°49.690’ S, 46°51.971’ E, leg. T. Wesener et al., 08.VI.2007; 1 &amp;female;, ZMH W049 A; same data as previous; 1 &amp;female;, ZMUC W049 A, same data as previous. <b>Other material examined:</b> 2 &amp;female;, 4 imm., W049A, same data as previous, but stored as vouchers at University Antananarivo. <b>Differential diagnosis:</b> <i>A. antanosy</i> differs from all congeners in the absence of male coxal processes (Fig. 47B). While the anterior gonopods are very similar in all species of the <i>Alluviobolus</i> (Figs 47D, F), are the posterior gonopods in <i>A. antanosy</i> rectangular apically (Fig. 47G), compared with acute telopodite tips in <i>A. laticlavius</i> (Fig. 44H) and in <i>A. tsimelahy</i> (Fig. 46L). <b>Description.</b> <i>Measurements</i>: males with 42–44 body rings, circa 43–47 mm long, 3.2–3.8 mm wide. Females with 43 or 44 body rings, 54–62 mm long, 5.0– 5.5 mm wide. <i>Coloration</i> on mesozonites dark grey, metazonites red (Fig. 47C). Rings dorsally with a slender orange stripe. Head, legs, and posterior part of telson red (Figs 47 A–C). Antennae and anterior part of telson dark grey (Figs 47A, C). <i>Eyes</i> with 22–25 ocelli arranged in 4 or 5 rows (Fig. 47A). <i>Antennae</i> protruding back to ring 5 (Fig. 47A). <i>Male coxal processes</i> absent, coxa 3 of slightly conical shape (Fig. 47B). <i>Preanal process</i> absent (Fig. 47C) <i>Anterior gonopod</i> sternite elevated into a broad triangular lobe. Tip well-rounded (Fig. 47D). Coxite and telopodite inconspicuous (Fig. 47F). <i>Posterior gonopods</i>: telopodite membranous fringe absent (Fig. 47E). Apical sclerite (<i>x</i> in Fig. 47G) wide, rectangular. Tip broadly rounded, basally elongated to a thin spine (Fig. 47E). <b>Distribution and ecology</b> : widely distributed in rainforests of Southeastern Madagascar. <i>A. antanosy</i> was collected in the Andohahela and Vohimena mountain chain as well as in the lowland littoral rainforest of Sainte Luce and the isolated Ambatotsirongorongo Mountain (Fig. 43). All specimens were found on the soil surface. <b>Etymology:</b> <i>antanosy</i>, noun in apposition, after the Malagasy Antanosy people, who live around Tolagnaro (Fort Dauphin) where this species was collected.
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 85-86, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.19.221, http://zenodo.org/record/576503