A new millipede of the family Ammodesmidae found in central Africa (Diplopoda, Polydesmida)

Didier VandenSpiegel; Sergei I Golovatch

doi:10.3897/zookeys.483.9150

A new millipede of the family Ammodesmidae found in central Africa (Diplopoda, Polydesmida)

Zookeys. 2015 Feb 19:(483):1-7. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.483.9150. eCollection 2015.

Authors

Didier VandenSpiegel¹, Sergei I Golovatch²

Affiliations

¹ Royal Museum for Central Africa, B-3480 Tervuren, Belgium.
² Institute for Problems of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninsky prospekt 33, Moscow 119071 Russia.

Abstract

The first species of the small Afrotropical family Ammodesmidae discovered in central Africa (Democratic Republic of the Congo) belongs to the genus Ammodesmus Cook, 1896, which was hitherto known only from two species in western Africa. A key is given to incorporate Ammodesmuscongoensis sp. n., a species also showing an evident sex dimorphism: ♂ densely hirsute, ♀ with much longer and sparser tergal setae.

Keywords: Ammodesmus; Democratic Republic of the Congo; key; new species; sex dimorphism; taxonomy.