A new East African genus of spirostreptid millipedes (Diplopoda, Spirostreptida, Spirostreptidae), with notes on their fungal ectoparasite Rickia gigas

Henrik Enghoff

doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4273.4.3

A new East African genus of spirostreptid millipedes (Diplopoda, Spirostreptida, Spirostreptidae), with notes on their fungal ectoparasite Rickia gigas

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Abstract

The new genus Tropostreptus is erected to accommodate seven species which are all endemic in Tanzania: T. hamatus
(Demange, 1977) (type species, = Spirostreptus hamatus Demange, 1977), T. sigmatospinus sp. nov., T. microcephalus
sp. nov., T. droides sp. nov., T. kipunji spec. nov., T. austerus (Attems, 1950) (= Epistreptus austerus Attems, 1950) and T. severus sp. nov. All but one (T. sigmatospinus) of the species are restricted to the Eastern Arc Mts. in a wide sense, i.e., including Mt. Rungwe. Notes are included on Rickia gigas Santamaria et al., 2016 (Ascomycota: Laboulbeniales), which infects several Tropostreptus species. The typical, long-celled form of R. gigas grows on body parts of both sexes coming into contact during copulation, whereas a short-celled form also ascribed to R. gigas grows on the hind margin of body rings of both sexes. A key to Tropostreptus species is included.

Original language	English
Journal	Zootaxa
Volume	4273
Issue number	4
Pages (from-to)	501-530
Number of pages	30
ISSN	1175-5326
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4273.4.3
Publication status	Published - 7 Jun 2017

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