<strong>Two new species of dragon millipedes, genus <em>Desmoxytes</em> Chamnerlin, 1923, from Laos (Diplopoda: Polydesmida: Paradoxosomatidae), with redescriptions of all four species of Attems from Vietnam</strong>

NATDANAI LIKHITRAKARN; SERGEI I. GOLOVATCH; SOMSAK PANHA

doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3931.4.2

Issue: Vol. 3931 No. 4: 16 Mar. 2015

Type: Article

Published: 2015-03-16

DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3931.4.2

Page range: 483–504

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**Two new species of dragon millipedes, genus Desmoxytes Chamnerlin, 1923, from Laos (Diplopoda: Polydesmida: Paradoxosomatidae), with redescriptions of all four species of Attems from Vietnam**

NATDANAI LIKHITRAKARN⁺⁻
SERGEI I. GOLOVATCH⁺⁻
SOMSAK PANHA⁺⁻

Animal Systematics Research Unit, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, 10330, Thailand.

Institute for Problems of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninsky pr. 33, Moscow 119071, Russia

Animal Systematics Research Unit, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, 10330, Thailand.

Millipede Desmoxytes new species Laos

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Abstract

Two new species of Desmoxytes are described and abundantly illustrated: D. rhinoceros sp. n. and D. rhinoparva sp. n., from southern and northern Laos, respectively. Illustrated redescriptions of all four Vietnamese Desmoxytes species proposed by Carl Attems are also provided, based on type material.