Ghi nhận sự có mặt của giống Pacidesmus ở Việt Nam

The millipede family Polydesmidae Leach, 1816 is almost strictly Holarctic, consisting of more than 60 nominal genera or subgenera and nearly 400 species and subspecies (Hoffman 1980; Golovatch 1991). The family is mostly distributed in the Mediterranean area, whereas Central and East Asia, as well as the entire Nearctic Region, show lower generic and, to a lesser degree, species diversity (Golovatch 1991; Djursvoll et al. 2001). Only a few macropolydesmid genera are found in Asia and Indochina including Epanerchodus Attems, 1901, Pacidesmus Golovatch, 1991, Polydesmus Latreille, 1802–1803, Nipponesmus Chamberlin & Wang, 1953, Gleninea Turk, 1945, Jaxartes Verhoeff, 1930, Schizoturanius Verhoeff, 1931, and Uniramidesmus Golovatch & Mikhaljova, 1979 (Golovatch 1991; Geoffroy and Golovatch 2004; Mikhaljova 2004; Golovatch and Geoffroy 2006, 2014; Golovatch et al. 2007; Nguyen 2009; Antić et al. 2019; Liu and Golovatch 2020). In addition, a fossil species of the rather small western to central European genus Propolydesmus Verhoeff, 1895 has recently been described from the mid-Cretaceous amber of Myanmar (burmite, 99–100 Mya) (Su et al. 2023)

Link bài báo: https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1190.114958