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Recovery of the family status of Pericambalidae Silvestri, 1909, stat. nov. (Diplopoda: Spirostreptida: Cambalidea), with a revision of the genera and species from China

Xuan-Kong Jiang https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3506-5894 A , William A. Shear B , Li-Ping Ye A , Hui-Ming Chen https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2449-3036 A * and Zhi-Cai Xie https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9658-4888 C *
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A Guizhou Institute of Biology, Guizhou Academy of Sciences, Guiyang, 550009, PR China.

B Department of Biology, Hampden-Sydney College, Hampden-Sydney, VA 23943, USA.

C CAS Key Laboratory of Aquatic Biodiversity and Conservation, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wuhan, 430072, PR China.

* Correspondence to: mei0601@126.com, zhcxie@ihb.ac.cn

Handling Editor: Mark Harvey

Invertebrate Systematics 37(1) 78-100 https://doi.org/10.1071/IS22044
Submitted: 29 August 2022  Accepted: 7 November 2022   Published: 24 January 2023

© 2023 The Author(s) (or their employer(s)). Published by CSIRO Publishing.

Abstract

The millipede subfamily Pericambalinae Silvestri, 1909 is poorly understood and the taxonomic status remains controversial. Pericambalinae was regarded as either a subfamily of Cambalopsidae or an independent family. To address this issue, we conducted a molecular phylogenetic analysis and a morphological revision, and the genera and species from China are also revised. The results support the recovery of the family status, Pericambalidae, stat. nov. The morphological differences between Bilingulus Zhang & Li, 1981 and Parabilingulus Zhang & Li, 1981 are shown to be caused by post-embryonic development (anamorphosis and non-systemic metamorphosis) and both of these should be junior synonyms of Pericambala Silvestri, 1909 (Pericambala = Bilingulus, syn. nov. = Parabilingulus, syn. nov.). Three new combinations are proposed: Pericambala simplicia (Mauriès & Nguyen Duy-Jacquemin, 1997), comb. nov., Pericambala aramula (Zhang & Li, 1981), comb. nov. and Pericambala sinica (Zhang & Li, 1981), comb. nov. The mature specimens of Pericambala simplicia, comb. nov. and Pericambala aramula, comb. nov. were collected from the type localities and are described for the first time. A new species, Pericambala cordata, sp. nov. is described. After revision, Pericambalidae contains two genera and six species with one genus and four species recorded from China. Due to a deficiency in outgroup sampling, the phylogenetic status of Pericambalidae in the suborder Cambalidea remains uncertain. Variation of the gnathochilarium in Cambalidea is discussed and a key to the species of Pericambala in China is also provided. This research lays a foundation for further revision of Cambalidea in the future.

ZooBank: urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:BDA46BCE-102B-45FE-A963-47F029A09E76.

Keywords: anamorphosis, diversity, millipede, new combination, new species, non-systemic metamorphosis, synonyms, systematics.


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