Six new species of dragon millipedes, genus Desmoxytes Chamberlin, 1923, mostly from caves in China (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Paradoxosomatidae).
Six new species of Desmoxytes are described from southern China: Desmoxytes laticollis sp. n., Desmoxytes simplipoda sp. n., and Desmoxytes similis sp. n., all three from caves in Guangdong Province; Desmoxytes phasmoides sp. n. also from a cave, and both epigean Desmoxytes spiniterga sp. n. and Desmoxytes variabilis sp. n., the latter trio from Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. A modified key to all 20 Desmoxytes species currently known to occur in China is given.
Department of Entomology, College of Agriculture, South China Agricultural University, 483 Wushanlu, Guangzhou 510640, China; Forschungsmuseum Alexander Koenig, Adenauerallee 160-162, Bonn 53113, Germany.
Weixin
W
Liu
Institute for Problems of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninsky pr. 33, Moscow 119071, Russia.
Sergei
S
Golovatch
Department of Entomology, College of Agriculture, South China Agricultural University, 483 Wushanlu, Guangzhou 510640, China.
Mingyi
M
Tian
Desmoxytes; key; new species; southern China; troglobite