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Issue: Vol. 4471 No. 1: 4 Sept. 2018
Type: Article
Published: 2018-09-04
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4471.1.8
Page range: 169–178
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A new species of and a new transfer from the millipede genus Polydrepanum Carl, 1932 (Polydesmida, Paradoxosomatidae, Polydrepanini)

Division of Arachnology, Department of Zoology, Sacred Heart College, Thevara, Cochin, Kerala 682 013, India
Division of Arachnology, Department of Zoology, Sacred Heart College, Thevara, Cochin, Kerala 682 013, India
Myriapoda Eastern Ghats India key new combination taxonomy

Abstract

A new species of Polydrepanum Carl, 1932, is described and illustrated in detail from the Eastern Ghats of India: P. fissum sp. nov. One new combination of species misplaced in Polydrepanum is established: Telodrepanum implicatum (Carl, 1941) comb. nov.. All the nominal Polydrepanum spp. are keyed and the known distribution of the genus is mapped.

 

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