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- Title
A remarkable new species of the millipede genus Trachyjulus Peters, 1864 (Diplopoda, Spirostreptida, Cambalopsidae) from Thailand, based both on morphological and molecular evidence.
- Authors
Likhitrakarn, Natdanai; Golovatch, Sergei I.; Jeratthitikul, Ekgachai; Srisonchai, Ruttapon; Sutcharit, Chirasak; Panha, Somsak
- Abstract
A new, giant species of Trachyjulus from a cave in southern Thailand is described, illustrated, and compared to morphologically closely related taxa. This new species, T. magnus sp. nov., is much larger than all other congeners and looks especially similar to the grossly sympatric T. unciger Golovatch, Geoffroy, Mauriès & VandenSpiegel, 2012, which is widespread in southern Thailand. Phylogenetic trees, both rooted and unrooted, based on a concatenated dataset of the COI and 28S genes of nine species of Cambalopsidae (Trachyjulus, Glyphiulus, and Plusioglyphiulus), strongly support the monophyly of Trachyjulus and a clear-cut divergence between T. magnus sp. nov. and T. unciger in revealing very high average p-distances of the COI gene (20.80-23.62%).
- Subjects
THAILAND; MILLIPEDES; SPECIES; EVIDENCE; CAVES; GENES; CLEARCUTTING
- Publication
ZooKeys, 2020, Issue 925, p55
- ISSN
1313-2989
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3897/zookeys.925.49953