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Polydesmoid Diplopoda from the Pacaraima Mountains
Author(s) -
Hoffman Richard L.
Publication year - 1966
Publication title -
journal of zoology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.915
H-Index - 96
eISSN - 1469-7998
pISSN - 0952-8369
DOI - 10.1111/j.1469-7998.1966.tb02967.x
Subject(s) - biology , key (lock) , genus , millipede , zoology , ecology
Four species of polydesmoid Diplopoda collected by Mr L. D. E. F. Vesey‐Fitzgerald, from the Pacaraima Mountains, British Guiana are described: Mestosoma hylaeicum Jeekel, Iphyria macconnelli (Pocock), Leptherpum jeekeli sp. nov. and a new genus and species of Chytodesmid, Adenomeropus fitzgeratdi. A revised key to Leptherpum is given including L. jeekeli and a new combination, L. schomburgkii .