Golovatch S.I. 2024. Two new species of the millipede genus Trichomorpha Silvestri, 1897 from central Ecuador (Diplopoda: Polydesmida: Chelodesmidae) // Arthropoda Selecta. Vol.33. No.4: 433–440 [in English].
Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninsky prospekt 33, Moscow 119071 Russia.
Sergei Golovatch sgolovatch@yandex.ru https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7159-5484
doi: 10.15298/arthsel.33.4.01
ABSTRACT. Two new Trichomorpha are described and illustrated from Ecuador: T. telnovi sp.n. from the Pastaza Province and T. similis sp.n. from the Tungurahua Province. Both new forms seem to be the first in the large Neotropical genus Trichomorpha that encompasses about 40 nominal species and ranges from Costa Rica in the north to Colombia and Ecuador in the south to be properly described and thoroughly illustrated. Both are also only the second and third congeners to be recorded from Ecuador.
KEY WORDS: taxonomy, distribution, iconography.