Golovatch S.I.1, Korotayeva A.M.2 2026. Several new records of millipedes (Diplopoda) from southern Vietnam, including three new species // Arthropoda Selecta. Vol.35. No.1: 1–10 [in English].
1 A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninsky prospekt 33, 119071 Moscow, Russia.
2 Institute of Biology and Chemistry, Moscow State Pedagogical University, Zoology and Ecology Department, Moscow 129164 Russia.
Sergei I. Golovatch sgolovatch@yandex.ru; https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7159-5484
Alyona M. Korotaeva alenacorotaeva2017@mail.ru; https://orcid.org/0009-0009-2716-5140
doi: 10.15298/arthsel.35.1.01
ABSTRACT. Results are presented of a taxonomic treatment of some Diplopoda collected recently in southern Vietnam. These concern eight species from eight genera, five families and four orders, including Rhopalomeris tenebris sp.n. (Glomeridae, Glomerida), Atopochetus vietnamicus sp.n. (Pachybolidae, Spirobolida), and Annamina spinigera sp.n. (Paradoxosomatidae, Polydesmida). The status of varieties is returned to the following formal subspecies: Orthomorpha scabra grandis Likhitrakarn, Golovatch, Semenyuk, Efeykin et Panha, 2019 = O. scabra var. grandis Likhitrakarn, Golovatch, Semenyuk, Efeykin et Panha, 2019, and O. rotundicollis subrotundicollis Likhitrakarn, Golovatch, Semenyuk, Efeykin et Panha, 2019 = O. rotundicollis var. subrotundicollis Likhitrakarn, Golovatch, Semenyuk, Efeykin et Panha, 2019, both syn.n. New faunistic information is provided, allowing for the distribution of several millipede species to be refined.
KEY WORDS: taxonomy, faunistics, Rhopalomeris, Atopochetus, Annamina, distribution, iconography.