Julus insolitus Mikhaljova, 2009, sp.n. ...

• Main Author: Mikhaljova, Elena V.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2009
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Arthropoda; Diplopoda; Julida; Julidae; Julus; Julus insolitus; Tundra
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6222074; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.6222074

Julus insolitus sp.n. Figs. 16-23. Material examined: Holotype: 1 male (IBSS), Russia, Republic of Altai, Choiskii District, environs of Baltyrgan Mts, rocky tundra, collected 13 August 2001 by N.V. Levina; Paratype: 1 male (IBSS), Russia, Republic of Altai, Choiskii District, environs of Baltyrgan Mts, forest-tundra, collected 12 August 2001 by N.V. Levina. Diagnosis: This species differs congeners from the Asian part of Russia mainly by the presence of a longitudinal crest with a broad ribbon-shaped apical portion on the posterior surface of the gonopod promere (in Julus ghilarovi such crest is supplied with a narrow apical portion), subtriangular shape of male leg pair 1, and bifurcated (not deeply) penes. Description: Male. Body 20 – 21 mm long; 0.9 – 1.0 mm in diameter, with 46(-2), 47(-2) (in holotype) segments, excluding telson. Coloration dark reddish-brown with whitish tint and with dark brown spots at level of ozopores. Thin axial line distinctly discernible on dorsum. Anterior portion of head with ... : Published as part of Mikhaljova, Elena V., 2009, New species of the family Julidae Leach 1814 from Altai, Russia (Diplopoda, Julida), pp. 59-68 in Zootaxa 2235 on pages 66-67, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.190392 ...