A new species of Polydrepanum Carl, 1932, is described and illustrated in detail from the Eastern Ghats of India: Polydrepanum fissum sp. nov. One new combination of species misplaced in Polydrepanum is established: Telodrepanum implicatum (Carl, 1941) comb. nov.. All the nominal Polydrepanum spp. are keyed and the known distribution of the genus is mapped.

Keywords: Myriapoda, Eastern Ghats, India, key, new combination, taxonomy

Field photograph of Polydrepanum fissum sp. nov. Photo: Jimmy Paul.

Order Polydesmida Pocock, 1887
Suborder Strongylosomatidea Brölemann, 1916

Family Paradoxosomatidae Daday, 1889
Subfamily Alogolykinae Hoffman, 1963
Tribe Polydrepanini Jeekel, 1968

Genus Polydrepanum Carl, 1932

Polydrepanum fissum sp. nov.

Etymology. The specific epithet refers to the bifurcated solenophore tip of the new species. Latin fissum = split, neuter.

Pradeep M. Sankaran and Pothalil A. Sebastian. 2018. A New Species of and A New Transfer from the Millipede Genus Polydrepanum Carl, 1932 (Polydesmida, Paradoxosomatidae, Polydrepanini). Zootaxa. 4471(1); 169–178.  DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4471.1.8