TY  - JOUR
A1  - Spiegel, Didier van den
A1  - Henrard, Arnaud
A1  - Mathys, Aurore
T1  - Sechelleptus arborivagus sp. nov., a new arboreal spirostreptid millipede (Diplopoda, Spirostreptidae) endemic to Mayotte Island (Comoros Archipelago), Indian Ocean
T2  - European journal of taxonomy
N2  - A new millipede species of the genus Sechelleptus Mauriès, 1980 is described and illustrated from Mayotte Island, Indian Ocean. This new species, S. arborivagus sp. nov., found on trees, looks particularly similar to the sympatric S. variabilis VandenSpiegel & Golovatch, 2007, but is much larger and has a very different ecological behavior. Phylogenetic analyses based on a concatenated dataset of the COI and 16S rRNA genes and including nine species of Spirostreptidae (including Sechelleptus, Doratogonus Attems, 1914, Bicoxidens Attems, 1928 and Spirostreptus Brandt, 1833), strongly support the monophyly of Sechelleptus. Despite the similarity of their genitalia, the molecular analyses also reveal a clear-cut genetic divergence between S. arborivagus sp. nov. and S. variabilis (22.55% for COI and 6.63% for 16SrRNA) and further suggest the presence of a higher diversity within the genus Sechelleptus on Mayotte.
T3  - European journal of taxonomy  : EJT - 755:1-21 
KW  - Comoros archipelagos
KW  - new species
KW  - phylogeny
KW  - taxonomy
Y1  - 2020
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/55693
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-556930
SN  - 2118-9773
VL  - 2021
IS  - 755
SP  - 1
EP  - 21
PB  - Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle
CY  - Paris
ER  -