Monstrodesmus flagellifer
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Ordo: Diplopoda
Familia: Trichopolydesmidae
Genus: Monstrodesmus
Name
Monstrodesmus flagellifer Golovatch, Geoffroy & VandenSpiegel, 2014 sp. n. – Wikispecies link – ZooBank link – Pensoft Profile
Type material
Holotype ♂ (MNHN JC 361), Vietnam, Dongnai Prov., Cat Tien National Park, 107°10'–107°34'E, 11°21'–11°48'N, lowland tropical forest, litter and topsoil, 01.06.2005, leg. A. Anichkin.
Paratype: 1 ♂ (SEM), same locality, together with holotype.
Name
The species epithet, a noun in apposition, is to emphasize the remarkably long gonopod flagellum.
Description
Length of adults ca 4.5 mm, width of midbody pro- and metazonae 0.33 and 0.4 mm (♂). Coloration in alcohol uniformly pallid, tegument often nearly translucent.
Body with 19 segments (♂). Tegument dull, texture of nearly entire body delicately alveolate to scaly, only sterna nearly smooth (Fig. 16A–I). Head very densely and finely pilose; epicranial suture highly superficial; genae squarish (Fig. 16A, D, G); gnathochilarium rather broad, sparsely and uniformly setose (Fig. 16K); isthmus between antennae about 1.2 times as broad as diameter of antennal socket (Fig. 16G). Antennae short (Fig. 16G, L), reaching only behind collum when stretched dorsally, not geniculate, rather strongly clavate due to a particularly enlarged antennomere 6, the latter with a usual, tight, distodorsal group of numerous, bacilliform sensilla; a similar, but smaller, also distodorsal group of sensilla on antennomere 5; antennomere 7 with a smaller distodorsal group of only a few shorter and curved sensilla in front of a tiny mid-dorsal knob. In width, collum < segment 3 = 4 < head = 2 < 5-15; thereafter body gradually tapering (Fig. 16D–F). Paraterga mostly moderate, starting from collum, set rather low (at about upper 1/3 of body height, Fig. 16J), at most small ridges with 2-3 lateral, setigerous knobs, absent from segment 18, caudal corner never produced behind rear tergal margin even in poriferous segments (Fig. 16A–I, O). Ozopores evident, ovoid, dorsolateral, mostly lying closer to lateral edge (Fig. 16B, C, E, F, O). Collum subovoid, sides (= paraterga) well rounded, dorsal surface with 3 transverse rows of 4+4, 3+3 and 3+3 rather long setae dorsally and 2 similar setae on paraterga (Fig. 16A, D). Each following metatergum with 3+3 or, more rarely, 4+4, similarly long, bacilliform, delicately ribbed setae arranged in 3 transverse regular rows and borne on knobs; sulci between the rows superficial (Fig. 16A–F). Stricture between pro- and metazonae rather deep and narrow, microalveolate like adjacent metazonae (Fig. 16A–F, M, O). Limbus very fine, delicately and densely microspiculate (Fig. 16M, O). Pleurosternal carinae absent (Fig. 16A–C). Epiproct short, conical, truncate, directed caudoventrally; pre-apical papillae small (Fig. 16C, F, I). Hypoproct subtrapeziform, caudal setigerous papillae moderate and well separated (Fig. 16I).
Sterna without modifications, rather broad and sparsely setose (Fig. 16H, I). Legs short and stout, ca 1.1-1.2 times as long as midbody height (♂); prefemora, femora, postfemora and tibiae clearly incrassate (Fig. 17A), tarsi longest, slender, sphaerotrichomes missing; claws simple, slightly curved (Fig. 17B); coxae 2 with very short, membranous, cylindrical gonapophyses. Gonopod aperture transversely obcordate, taking up most of ventral part of metazonite 7 (Fig. 17C, E). Gonopod coxae large (gonocoel rather deep), with 2 long setae and clearly micropapillate laterally, but without any frontal outgrowths (Fig. 17C–G, 18); telopodites quite well exposed, not twisted, tripartite, elongate, moderately curved caudad, subcontiguous medially and held parallel to each other; acropodites lying distal to prefemoral parts much longer than and coaxial with the latter; solenomere (sl) (= endomere) a strong, simple, frontal branch about as long as an apically bifid lateral exomere (ex); an extremely long, flagelliform, mesal branch (fl) at base of both sl and ex; seminal groove (sg) running entirely along mesal side of sl to terminate on top with neither an accessory seminal chamber nor a pulvillus.
Original Description
- Golovatch, S; Geoffroy, J; VandenSpiegel, D; 2014: Review of the millipede family Trichopolydesmidae in the Oriental realm (Diplopoda, Polydesmida), with descriptions of new genera and species ZooKeys, 414: 19-65. doi
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