Hylomus rhinoceros (Likhitrakarn, Golovatch & Panha, 2015)

Nguyen, Anh D. & Sierwald, Petra, 2019, On the paradoxosomatid collection in the Field Museum of Natural History: Dragon millipedes from Laos (Polydesmida: Paradoxosomatidae: Hylomus), Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 67, pp. 119-128 : 121-123

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.26107/RBZ-2019-0009
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scientific name	Hylomus rhinoceros (Likhitrakarn, Golovatch & Panha, 2015)
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Hylomus rhinoceros (Likhitrakarn, Golovatch & Panha, 2015) View in CoL

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Desmoxytes rhinoceros Likhitrakarn, Golovatch & Panha, 2015b: 486 View in CoL View Cited Treatment , figs. 1A, B & 2–4.

Hylomus rhinoceros: Srisonchai et al., 2018a: 11 View in CoL (transferred to Hylomus View in CoL ).

Material examined. 1 male, 2 females ( FMNH-INS 3716298 ), LAOS, Champasak Prov., Bolaven Plateau, Ban Thongvay [=Xekatam], vic. old logging road, N of village, 1,170 m, 15°14.494′N – 106°31.807′E, selectively logged forest, FMHD#2008–040 , flight intercept trap, coll. A Newton & M. Thayer, ANMT site 1232, 8–16 June 2008 GoogleMaps ; 1 male, 2 females ( FMNH-INS 3716301 ), LAOS, Champasak Prov., Bolaven Plateau, Ban Thongvay [=Xekatam], vic. old logging road, N of village, 1,095 m, 15°14.288′N – 106°31.891′E, selectively logged forest, FMHD#2008–037 , flight intercept trap, coll. A Newton & M. Thayer, ANMT site 1231, 8–16 June 2008 GoogleMaps ; 3 females ( FMNH-INS 072 850), LAOS, Champasak Prov., Bolaven Plateau, Ban Thongvay [=Xekatam], vic. old logging road, N of village, 1,095 m, 15°14.288′N – 106°31.891′E, selectively logged forest, FMHD#2008–039 , dung trap (human), coll. A. Solodovnikov, M. Thayer & A Newton, ANMT site 1231, 8–16 June 2008 GoogleMaps .

Descriptive notes. Likhitrakarn et al. (2015b) described the collum of this species with three transverse rows of setiferous spines: 3+3 anterior, 3+3 intermediate and 1+1 posterior (totally 16 spines). In fact, their images ( Likhitrakarn et al., 2015b: fig. 2A) and our material clearly show the collum with 14 spines in total, arranged in three transverse rows: 3+3 anterior spines, 2+2 intermediate spines and 2+2 posterior spines.

Remarks. This species was originally described as Desmoxytes rhinoceros , but it was recently assigned to the re-validated genus Hylomus by Srisonchai et al. (2018a). The additional specimens examined here fall well within the originally reported distribution of this species in southern Laos ( Champasak and Sekong provinces).