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: Desmoxytes
Species: Desmoxytes spinissima

Name

  • Desmoxytes spinissima 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.

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.
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