LikhitrakarnNatdanaiGolovatchSergei I.PanhaSomsakRevision of the Southeast Asian millipede genus Orthomorpha Bollman, 1893, with the proposal of a new genus (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Paradoxosomatidae) Zookeys29920112011131116110.3897/zookeys.131.1921 “Orthomorpha” crinita Attems, 1900Fig. 115Orthomorpha crinitaAttems 1900: 142 (D).Orthomorpha (?) crinita – Mauriès 1980: 161 (M).? Orthomorpha crinita – Golovatch & Korsós 1992: 29 (M); Golovatch & Gerlach 2010: 399 (D).Syntypes.

2 ♀ (NHMW-7986), Seychelles, Mahé Island, primeval forest, 1895, leg. A. Brauer.

Descriptive notes.

Length 19–20 mm, width of midbody pro- and metazona 2.1–2.2 and 2.5–2.6 mm, respectively. Coloration of alcohol material upon long-term preservation uniformly light grey-brown (Fig. 115).

Metaterga densely and irregularly setose. All other somatic characters as in Fig. 115.

Orthomorpha crinita Attems, 1900, ♀ syntype. A, B anterior part of body, dorsal and lateral views, respectively C, D segments 10 and 11, dorsal and lateral views, respectively E–G posterior part of body, lateral, dorsal and ventral views, respectively H samplelabels.

Remarks.

This species has been described from three ♀ syntypes, still known only from the type locality: Mahé Island, Seychelles (Golovatch & Gerlach 2010). Superficially, it differs readily from the only other paradoxosomatid endemic to the Seychelles, Diglossosternoides curiosus Golovatch and Korsós, 1992, tribe Eustrongylosomatini, in the remarkably densely setose collum and following metaterga (Golovatch and Korsós 1992).

Based both on the morphological characters (e.g. the narrow paraterga and densely setose metaterga) and distribution, there can be no doubt that Orthomorpha crinita has nothing to do with Orthomorpha.

AttemsC (1900) Dr. Brauer’s Myriopoden-Ausbeute auf den Seychellen im Jahre 1895.Zoologische Jahrbücher, Abteilung für Systematik, Geographie und Biologie der Thiere 13: 133-171.MaurièsJP (1980) Myriapoda – Diplopoda.Revue de la Zoologie africaine 94: 138-168.GolovatchSIKorsósZ (1992) Diplopoda collected by the Soviet Zoological Expedition to the Seychelles Islands in 1984.Acta Zoologica Hungarica 38: 19-49.GolovatchSIGerlachJ (2010) Class Diplopoda De Blainville in Gervais, 1844. In: GerlachJMarusikY (Eds). Arachnida and Myriapoda of the Seychelles islands.Siri Scientific Press, Manchester: 387-402.