Doratodesmus grandifoliatus Golovatch &amp; Geoffroy &amp; Mauriès &amp; VandenSpiegel 2009, n. comb.
Creators: name: Golovatch, Sergei
name: Geoffroy, Jean-Jacques
name: Mauriès, Jean-Paul
name: VandenSpiegel, Didier
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Diplopoda
Polydesmida
Haplodesmidae
Doratodesmus
Doratodesmus grandifoliatus

description: <i>Doratodesmus grandifoliatus</i> (Zhang <i>in</i> Zhang &amp; Wang, 1993) n. comb. Figs 27-30. <b>Material.</b> China, Yunnan Prov., Mengzi County, pothole no. 2 (Ma Fa Tiao Dong), 6.I.1989, leg. P. Beron, 2 ♁♁, 1 &amp;female; (MNHN JC 315), 1 ♁, 3 &amp;female;&amp;female;, 9 juv. (NMNHS), 1 ♁ (ZMUM), 1 &amp;female; (SEM); Yunnan Prov., Mengzi County, Longbaopo Dong Cave, 27.XI.1995, leg. I. Kos, B. Sket &amp; F. Velkovrh, 1 ♁ &amp; 1 &amp;female; <i>in copula</i> (OBBFUL), 1 ♁ (ZMUC), 1 ♁ (SEM). <b>Diagnosis.</b> Differs from congeners by the simultaneous lack of mid-dorsal outgrowths on metaterga and of lateral lobulations on paraterga 2, the presence of deep crenulations at the caudal edge of most metaterga, coupled with a peculiar shape of the gonopod telopodite supplied with a large, multidenticulate, lateral lobe and a long, slightly curved, rather simple acropodite. <b>Short redescription.</b> Length of adults of both sexes <i>ca</i> 10-11 mm, width 1.8-2.1 mm, body broadest at segments 3 and 4. Coloration rather uniformly whitish to light yellow, anterior body parts often a little infuscate, light yellowish-brown. Adults with 20 segments, conglobation pattern typical of “ Doratodesmidae ”, complete (Golovatch 2003). Superficially, strongly resembling <i>Eutrichodesmus incisus</i> sp. n. All characters fully agreeing with the original description (Zhang and Wang 1993), but augmented here by illustrations showing more details: head (Fig. 28C), antennae (Fig. 28C, D), collum (Fig. 27D), meta- and paraterga (Figs 27 A-C, E, F; 28B), tegument and tergal setae (Figs 28F; 29A, B), ozopores (Fig. 28E), telson (Fig. 27F; 28A), legs (Figs 29C, D; 30A). Sterna usually with a rather deep, narrow depression between coxae (Fig. 28B), only those between coxae 6, 7 and 9 much wider (Fig. 30A). Gonopod aperture transverse-oval, relatively small, far from reaching lateral sides of segment 7. Legs rather long; femoral and tarsal segments equal and longest; several basal segments microtuberculate; claw simple, slightly curved ventrad; some setae sparsely microdentate (Figs 29C, D; 30A). Gonopods (Figs 30B, C) relatively complex. Coxae subquadrate, large, microtuberculate and abundantly setose ventrolaterally. Telopodite considerably longer than coxite, subunciform, basal half slender and setose, at about midway conspicuously enlarged, with a multidenticulate lateral lobe (lo) and a very short solenomere (sl) with a hairpad on top; acropodite relatively long and simple. <b>Remarks.</b> This species has hitherto been described or reported from three caves in Yunnan, China (Wang and Zhang 1993; Golovatch 2003). One of the new samples (from Longbaopo Cave) is strictly topotypic, while Ma Fa Tiao Dong Cave is known to support another millipede, <i>Glyphiulus subgranulatus</i> Golovatch, Geoffroy, Mauriès &amp; VandenSpiegel, 2007 (see Golovatch et al. 2007a).
description: Published as part of <i>Golovatch, Sergei, Geoffroy, Jean-Jacques, Mauriès, Jean-Paul &amp; VandenSpiegel, Didier, 2009, Review of the millipede family Haplodesmidae Cook, 1895, with descriptions of some new or poorly-known species (Diplopoda, Polydesmida), pp. 1-53 in ZooKeys 7 (7)</i> on pages 36-37, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.7.117, http://zenodo.org/record/576436
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