First record of the millipede genus Schizoturanius Verhoeff, 1931 (Diplopoda: Polydesmida: Polydesmidae) from China, with description of a new species

Abstract

Schizoturanius sinensis sp. n. is described and illustrated from Xinjiang, Schizoturanius Verhoeff, 1931 thus being formally recorded from China for the first time. The new species seems to be especially similar to S. levis Mikhaljova, 2013, but it differs from congeners by the presence of transverse folds on the anterior surface of the gonotelopodite, and the postfemoral region of the gonopod endomere carrying a long and flat external process curved at an almost right angle and covered with folds, but devoid of serrations. The distributions of all Schizoturanius species are mapped, and an updated key to species of the genus is given.