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Issue: Vol. 4459 No. 3: 16 Aug. 2018
Type: Article
Published: 2018-08-15
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4459.3.7
Page range: 535–550
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Four new species of giant pill-millipedes from Vietnam (Sphaerotheriida, Zephroniidae)

Institute for Problems of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninsky prospekt 33, Moscow 119071 Russia. Joint Russian-Vietnamese Tropical Center, Street 3 Thang 2, Q10, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
Institute for Problems of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninsky prospekt 33, Moscow 119071 Russia.
Zoologisches Forschungsmuseum Alexander Koenig, Leibniz Institute for Terrestrial Biodiversity, Adenauerallee 160, D-53113 Bonn, Germany.
Myriapoda Sphaerobelum Zephronia new species key field observations

Abstract

Four new species of giant pill-millipedes (Sphaerotheriida) are described from southern Vietnam: Sphaerobelum cattiense sp. nov., Sphaerobelum konkakinhense sp. nov., Zephronia konkakinhensis sp. nov. and Zephronia montis sp. nov. An updated generic diagnosis of Sphaerobelum Verhoeff, 1924 and a key to its species are provided.

 

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