Hylomus spinissimus

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Polydesmida
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Subphylum: Myriapoda Classis: Diplopoda Subclassis: Chilognatha Infraclassis: Helminthomorpha Superordo: Merocheta Ordo: Polydesmida

Familia: Paradoxosomatidae
Subfamilia: Paradoxosomatinae
Tribus: Orthomorphini
Genus: Hylomus
Species: H. spinissimus

Name

Hylomus spinissimus (Golovatch, Li, Liu & Geoffroy, 2012): figs 3, 4

Holotype: IZAS CHIgx12-LYB04, ♂.

Type locality: China, Guangxi Prov., Fuchuan County, Guanyuan, Cave Guanyuan Dong, 25.I.2012, leg. Li Youbang, Li Youting and Tang Kewen.

Etymology: To emphasize the extremely long and spiniform paraterga.

Synonyms

• Desmoxytes spinissima Golovatch, Li, Liu & Geoffroy, 2012

References

• Golovatch, Sergei I., Youbang Li, Weixin Liu & Jean-Jacques Geoffroy, 2012: Three new cavernicolous species of dragon millipedes, genus Desmoxytes Chamberlin, 1923, from southern China, with notes on a formal congener from the Philippines (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Paradoxosomatidae). ZooKeys, 185: 1–17. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.185.3082.
• Srisonchai, R., Enghoff, H., Likhitrakarn, N. & Panha, S. 2018. A revision of dragon millipedes I: genus Desmoxytes Chamberlin, 1923, with the description of eight new species (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Paradoxosomatidae). ZooKeys 761: 1–177. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.761.24214. Reference page.