Two new cave Hyleoglomeris species (Glomerida, Glomeridae) from northern Vietnam

Mai Kuroda; Katsuyuki Eguchi; Emiko Oguri; Anh D Nguyen

doi:10.3897/zookeys.1108.85423

Two new cave Hyleoglomeris species (Glomerida, Glomeridae) from northern Vietnam

Zookeys. 2022 Jun 24:1108:161-174. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.1108.85423. eCollection 2022.

Authors

Mai Kuroda¹, Katsuyuki Eguchi^{2

3}, Emiko Oguri¹, Anh D Nguyen^{4

5}

Affiliations

¹ Faculty of Education, Tokyo Gakugei University, 4-chome-1-1 Nukuikitamachi, Koganei Tokyo, 184-8501, Japan Tokyo Gakugei University Tokyo Japan.
² Graduate School of Science, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Minami-osawa 1-1, Hachioji, Tokyo 192-0397, Japan Tokyo Metropolitan University Tokyo Japan.
³ Department of International Health and Medical Anthropology, Institute of Tropical Medicine, 1-12-4 Sakamoto, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, 852-8523, Japan Nagasaki University Nagasaki Japan.
⁴ Department of Soil Ecology, Institute of Ecology and Biological Resources, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, 18, Hoangquocviet Rd., Caugiay District, Hanoi, Vietnam Institute of Ecology and Biological Resources, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology Hanoi Vietnam.
⁵ Graduate University of Science and Technology, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, 18, Hoangquocviet Rd., Caugiay District, Hanoi, Vietnam Graduate University of Science and Technology Hanoi Vietnam.

Abstract

Two new glomerid species from caves in Cao Bang Province, Northern Vietnam, namely, Hyleoglomerishalang Kuroda, Nguyen & Eguchi, sp. nov. and Hyleoglomerisalba Nguyen, Kuroda & Eguchi, sp. nov., are described. The former is characterized by a distinct body color pattern; telopods with a large, quadrate, medially concave, sparsely setose, central syncoxital lobe; and syncoxital horns approximately 1.5-2.0 times as long as the lobe. The latter is distinguished by its completely troglobiotic form without eyes, an unpigmented body, and a roundly triangular syncoxital lobe of telopods. An identification key is also provided for the cave glomerids of Vietnam.

Keywords: Biodiversity; millipede; new species; taxonomy; troglobiont.

Mai Kuroda, Katsuyuki Eguchi, Emiko Oguri, Anh D. Nguyen.

Grants and funding

Institute of Ecology and Biological Resources (IEBR.ĐT.01-22); Asahi Glass Foundation; and Tokyo Metropolitan University Fund for TMU Strategic Research