Integrative redescription of the sucking millipede genus Dawydoffia Attems, 1953 with a description of a new species and a transfer to the family Hirudisomatidae (Diplopoda, Polyzoniida) Author Wesener, Thomas Leibniz Institute for the Study of Biodiversity Change, Zoogisches Forschungsmuseum Alexander Koenig, Adenauerallee 127, 53113 Bonn, Germany. Author Moritz, Leif Leibniz Institute for the Study of Biodiversity Change, Zoogisches Forschungsmuseum Alexander Koenig, Adenauerallee 127, 53113 Bonn, Germany. & University of Bonn, Institute for Evolutionary Biology and Ecology, An der Immenburg 1, 53121 Bonn, Germany. Author Akkari, Nesrine Natural History Museum Vienna, Burgring 7, 1010 Vienna, Austria. text Zootaxa 2023 2023-04-06 5263 3 411 429 http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5263.3.6 journal article 244290 10.11646/zootaxa.5263.3.6 8a181287-5f36-4c7f-b161-3ecb712379b7 1175-5326 7804359 2952C656-9F88-4EF1-B435-2EA07F86DF5C
TABLE 2. Comparison of the characters of the Polyzoniida and Siphonocryptida families, based on own observations and the literature (Hoffman 1982; Enghoff & Golovatch 1995; Enghoff et al. 2015).
ORDERPolyzoniidaSiphonocryptida
FAMILYHirudisomatidaePolyzoniidaeSiphonotidaeSiphonocryptidae
Posterior tergal marginupturnednot upturnednot upturnedupturned (in Hirudicryptus)
Row of tubercles on tergitesabsentabsentabsentpresent
Ozopore positionclose to lateral tergal marginat some distance from lateral tergal marginat some distance from lateral tergal marginon peritremata on tergal margin
Paronychiumpresentabsentpresentabsent
Posterior tergal margin of last tergite, shapestraightstraightroundedstraight
Telsoncovered by tergitepartially covered by tergitepartially covered by tergitecovered by tergite
Preanal ringcompletely fusedventrally dividedcompletely fusedventrally divided
Antennomereselongatedelongatedstoutstout
Male, gonoporesopening through 2nd coxaeopening through intersegmental membrane behind 2nd coxaeopening through 2nd coxaeopening through 2nd coxae