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Issue: Vol. 5357 No. 2: 18 Oct. 2023
Type: Article
Published: 2023-10-18
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5357.2.6
Page range: 285-300
Abstract views: 131
PDF downloaded: 19

A contribution to the millipede fauna of China: descriptions of four new species of the genus Nepalmatoiulus Mauriès, 1983 from high-altitude areas of Yunnan Province (Diplopoda, Julida, Julidae)

Federal Scientific Center of the East Asia Terrestrial Biodiversity; Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Myriapoda new taxa new record taxonomy southeast China

Abstract

Four new species of the millipede genus Nepalmatoiulus Mauriès, 1983 (Julida, Julidae) are described from high-altitude areas of Yunnan Province in China: N. angustus sp. nov., N. arcuatus sp. nov., N. belousovi sp. nov. and N. kabaki sp. nov. A new faunistic record for the Laojunshan Mts. is given for N. emarginatus Mikhaljova, 2020. A brief overview of the Yunnan Nepalmatoiulus species is given. Taxonomic remarks are provided for nearly all new species.

 

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