Kaszab Zoltán (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 75. (Budapest 1983)

Golovatch, S. I.: On several new Glomeridae (Diplopoda) from Indochina

Hyperglomeris maxima sp.n. (Figs 6—10) Locality : Vietnam, Prov. Hoa binh, Mai tiao distr., Von mai, secondary tropical forest, 4^ (including holotype), 1 juv., 12 XII 1981, leg. D. A. Krivolutsky et L. B. Rybalov. — Material examined: 5 specimens. — Holotype and 2 paratypes have been deposited in the Zoolo­gical Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences, Leningrad; one male paratype (dissected) will be placed in the Zoological Museum of the Moscow State University, Moscow; one male paratype has been sent to the Hungarian Natural History Museum, Budapest. Description — Body 13-14 mm long and 6.0-7.0 mm wide, 14 mm long and 7.0 mm wide in holotype. Colour yellowish-brown, with dark marble brown spots and markings from each side of a thin irregular axial stripe which sometimes (especially in several mid-body terga) coalesces­ing into large (sub)triangular median spots (Fig. 6). Pygidium with a dim darker central spot. Col­lum marble light brown, without distinct spots. Head and antennae brown, legs greyish-yellow. Antennae like in P. magna sp. n., but apically with 4 larger cones. Black convex ocelli 7 +1 from each side. Surface smooth, shining. Collum quite usual, with 2 transverse striae. Chest shield with hypo­schism reaching, but not exceeding hind tergal margin, with about a dozen of fine striae of which only 2nd entirely crosses dorsum, whereas some 6 or 7 of subsequent ones, though reaching the dor­sum, do so becoming interrupted, vague. Pygidium with a pair of very small round paramedian projections at caudal margin divided by a very gentle concavity. Leg-pair 17 (Fig. 7) with quite low outer coxal lobes, telopodite 4-jointed. Pair 18 (Fig. 8) with an extremely wide and shallow syncoxite notch, telopodite 4-jointed. Pair 19 (telopods) (Figs 9-10) Figs 1-5. Pepîomeris magna sp. n,, o holotype: 1 = habitus (dorsal view), 2 = distal part of antenna (drawn not to scale), 3 = leg-pair 17, 4 = leg-pair 18, 5 = telopods (caudal view)

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