TAILIEUCHUNG - The millipede genus Nedyopus attems, 1914 from Vietnam
The paper presents taxonomy and distribution of the genus Nedyopus recorded in Vietnam, and provides a key to species. The species N. pictus has been recorded only in Tam Dao National Park. A key to species is also provided. | TẠP CHÍ SINH HỌC 2013, 35(3se): 8-15 THE MILLIPEDE GENUS NEDYOPUS ATTEMS, 1914 (DIPLOPODA: POLYDESMIDA: PARADOXOSOMATIDAE) FROM VIETNAM Nguyen Duc Anh Institute of Ecology and Biological Resources, VAST, ducanh@ ABSTRACT: The genus Nedyopus Attems, 1914 consisting of 22 known species and subspecies is distributed mainly in East Asia (Japan, Taiwan) and expansively occurs in Vietnam (three species). The paper presents taxonomy and diagnosis of three Nedyopus species recorded in Vietnam: N. dawydoffiae (Attems, 1953), N. mahunkai (Korsós & Golovatch, 1989) and N. pictus (Brölemann, 1916). Of those, N. mahunkai has been widely known in northeastern Vietnam, and N. dawydoffiae has been found in southern Vietnam. The species N. pictus has been recorded only in Tam Dao National Park. A key to species is also provided. Keywords: Polydesmida, Paradoxosomatidae, Nedyopus, Millipede, Vietnam INTRODUCTION The millipede genus Nedyopus was established for the species Orthomorpha cingulata Attems, 1898 by Attems (1914) [1]. Three years later, Brölemann (1916) [4] proposed a new monotypic genus Vaulogerodesmus with a single species V. pictus. This genus was later synonymized with the genus Nedyopus by Attems (1937) [2]. Since then, numerous species have been described under genera Nesodyopus and Varyomorpha [11, 13, 14], but their generic positions were still doubtful [11]. Recently, Chen et al. (2006) [5] revised the tribe Nedyopodini consisting of only the genus Nedyopus Attems, 1914. They synonymized all genera Vaulogerodesmus Brölemann, 1916, Nesodyopus Verhoeff, 1940 and Varyomorpha Wang, 1957 with the genus Nedyopus. Consequently, the number of species has increased to 13 species plus 9 subspecies. Almost all species have been recorded in Taiwan, Japan and Korea whereas some occur in southern China, Vietnam and Indonesia. Only three species have been found in Vietnam [6]. The paper presents taxonomy and distribution of the genus Nedyopus recorded in Vietnam, and
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