ZooKeys (Jun 2022)

Two new cave Hyleoglomeris species (Glomerida, Glomeridae) from northern Vietnam

  • Mai Kuroda,
  • Katsuyuki Eguchi,
  • Emiko Oguri,
  • Anh D. Nguyen

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1108.85423
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 1108
pp. 161 – 174

Abstract

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Two new glomerid species from caves in Cao Bang Province, Northern Vietnam, namely, Hyleoglomeris halang Kuroda, Nguyen & Eguchi, sp. nov. and Hyleoglomeris alba Nguyen, Kuroda & Eguchi, sp. nov., are described. The former is characterized by a distinct body color pattern; telopods with a large, quadrate, medially concave, sparsely setose, central syncoxital lobe; and syncoxital horns approximately 1.5–2.0 times as long as the lobe. The latter is distinguished by its completely troglobiotic form without eyes, an unpigmented body, and a roundly triangular syncoxital lobe of telopods. An identification key is also provided for the cave glomerids of Vietnam.