Kronopolites ramosus Golovatch & Semenyuk, 2021

Nguyen, Anh D., Vu, Tam T. T., Phung, Hong Luong T., Tran, Duc-Luong & Le, Hung-Anh, 2025, Mountainous millipedes in Vietnam. V. The millipede genus Kronopolites Attems, 1914 (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Paradoxosomatidae), with descriptions of two new species, ZooKeys 1249, pp. 223-245 : 223-245

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1249.155280
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16942539
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scientific name	Kronopolites ramosus Golovatch & Semenyuk, 2021
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Kronopolites ramosus Golovatch & Semenyuk, 2021 View in CoL

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Kronopolites ramosus Golovatch & Smenyuk, 2021: 479 View in CoL , figs 31–46.

Type specimens.

ZMUM.

Material examined.

Vietnam • Ha Tinh Province • 1 male, 1 female; Huong Son District, Son Kim commune ; 18.46268°N, 105.15382°E; 350 m a. s. l.; natural forests; 3 May 2004; Anh D. Nguyen leg.; IEBR-Myr 111 GoogleMaps ; Nghe An Province • 3 males, 6 females, 1 juvenile; Pu Mat National Park; Khe Thoi ; 19.07991°N, 104.63714°E; closed forest, near stream; 4–10 April 2011; Anh D. Nguyen leg; IEBR-Myr 175 GoogleMaps • 7 males, 5 females; same as the sample IEBR-Myr 175; IEBR-Myr 176 GoogleMaps • 2 females, 2 juveniles; Pu Mat National Park, Thac Chem waterfall ; 18.97150°N, 104.80081°E; 430 m a. s. l.; evergreen closed forest; 4–10 April 2011; Anh D. Nguyen leg.; IEBR-Myr 199 GoogleMaps • 5 males, 3 females; Pu Mat National Park ; same as the sample IEBR-Myr 175; IEBR-Myr 553 GoogleMaps • 1 male; Pu Mat National Park ; same as the sample IEBR-Myr 175; IEBR-Myr 174 GoogleMaps .

Diagnosis.

The species can be distinguished by having a uniformly dark colouration and yellow legs, sternite 5 without any processes between male coxae 4, gonopod process a unciform while process b straight, both a and b slender and acuminate, sharing a broad lobe-shaped base.

Distribution.

Nghe An Province (Pu Mat NP) ( Golovatch and Semenyuk 2021).

Remarks.

The species has been known only from Vietnam.

Remarks.

As mentioned above, two species, K. montanus and K. ramosus , show high similarity in morphology, especially gonopod conformation (see Figs 2 View Figure 2 , 3 View Figure 3 ). The two species can be differentiated based on their gonopod processes: K. montanus has a short, wider coiled process a and a longer, straight, digitiform, subhelicoid process b, while K. ramosus has a short and thin, curved, process a with an apical hook and a longer, straight, acuminate process b. In addition, two species have high significant genetic divergence (COI distance = 11.6 %). Therefore, two species are clearly distinguished from each other.