TY - GEN A1 - Srisonchai, Ruttapon A1 - Enghoff, Henrik A1 - Likhitrakarn, Natdanai A1 - Panha, Somsak T1 - A revision of dragon millipedes II: the new genus Nagaxytes gen. nov., with the description of three new species (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Paradoxosomatidae) T2 - European journal of taxonomy : 462 N2 - The ‘acantherpestes’ group of dragon millipedes, formerly placed in the genus Desmoxytes Chamberlin, 1923, is revised and assigned to the new genus Nagaxytes Srisonchai, Enghoff & Panha gen. nov. Desmoxytes acantherpestes Golovatch & Enghoff, 1994 is the type species of the new genus and is redescribed as N. acantherpestes (Golovatch & Enghoff, 1994) gen. et comb. nov. Three new species are described from Thailand: N. erecta Srisonchai, Enghoff & Panha gen. et sp. nov. and N. gracilis Srisonchai, Enghoff & Panha gen. et sp. nov. from Kanchanaburi Province, and N. spatula Srisonchai, Enghoff & Panha gen. et sp. nov. from Tak Province. All new species are endemic to western Thailand and all are restricted to limestone habitats. Complete illustrations of external morphological characters, an identification key, and a distribution map are provided. T3 - European journal of taxonomy : EJT - 462 KW - Endemic KW - dragon millipede KW - new species KW - taxonomy KW - Thailand Y1 - 2018 UR - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/53726 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-537260 SN - 2118-9773 PB - Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle CY - Paris ER -