Two new species, including one representing a new genus, of the West African millipede family Campodesmidae (Diplopoda: Polydesmida)
- A new genus, Campodesmoides gen. nov., is described to only encompass C. corniger sp. nov., from Cameroon. This genus and species is distinguished from the few known species of the small western African family Campodesmidae, all currently in Campodesmus, by the much longer antennae and legs, the normal pore formula with ozopores borne on porosteles, and the suberect and distally twisted gonopod, coupled with peculiar horns on a few anterior postcollum segments. A new Campodesmus is also described, C. alobatus sp. nov., from Ivory Coast, which differs from congeners primarily in the lack of a dorsal/lateral lobe on the otherwise usual and strongly subcircular gonopod telopodite, albeit the latter is not directed mesad, but held subparallel to the main body axis.
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| Author: | Didier Vandenspiegel, Sergei Ilyich Golovatch, Armand Richard Nzoko Fiemapong |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-459578 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2015.139 |
| ISSN: | 2118-9773 |
| Parent Title (English): | European journal of taxonomy : 139 |
| Series (Serial Number): | European journal of taxonomy : EJT (139) |
| Publisher: | Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle |
| Place of publication: | Paris |
| Document Type: | Part of Periodical |
| Language: | English |
| Year of Completion: | 2015 |
| Year of first Publication: | 2015 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Release Date: | 2018/03/29 |
| Tag: | Cameroon; Ivory Coast; Myriapoda; taxonomy |
| Page Number: | 11 |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 5 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik / 59 Tiere (Zoologie) / 590 Tiere (Zoologie) |
| Sammlungen: | Sammlung Biologie / Sondersammelgebiets-Volltexte |
| Licence (German): |  Creative Commons - Namensnennung 3.0 |
