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Four New Species Of The Millipede Genus Eutrichodesmus Silvestri, 1910 From Laos, Including Two With Reduced Ozopores (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Haplodesmidae), Weixin Liu, Sergei I. Golovatch, Thomas Wesener Mar 2017

Four New Species Of The Millipede Genus Eutrichodesmus Silvestri, 1910 From Laos, Including Two With Reduced Ozopores (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Haplodesmidae), Weixin Liu, Sergei I. Golovatch, Thomas Wesener

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Laos has large areas of primary forest with a largely unexplored fauna. This is evidenced by millipedes, class Diplopoda, with fewer than 60 species being recorded from the country. In the widespread Southeast Asian “Star Millipede” genus Eutrichodesmus Silvestri, 1910 (family Haplodesmidae), only two of 49 recorded species have been found in Laos. Four new species of Star Millipedes are here described from caves in Laos: Eutrichodesmus steineri Liu & Wesener, sp. n., E. deporatus Liu & Wesener, sp. n., E. paraster Liu & Wesener, sp. n. and E. parvus Liu & Wesener, sp. n.. A fifth species, for which …