A new species of the genus Carlogonus (Spirostreptida: Harpagophoridae) from West Bengal, India
Somnath Bhakat
A new species of Carlogonus, Carlogonus bengalensis is described from West Bengal, India. The adult is blackish brown in colour with a yellowish curved tail, round body with 60 segments, 55 mm in length, 5th segment of male bears a hump, telopodite of the gonopod long, flat and band like with a single curved antetorsal process, mesal process with a red spine, proplical lobe with a curved orange spine, inner surface of metaplical fold with sigilla, palette spatula like and a few blepharochatae at the apical margin. Male bears white pad on femur and tibia. Comparison was made with the “exaratus group” of the genus Carlogonus.
Somnath Bhakat. A new species of the genus Carlogonus (Spirostreptida: Harpagophoridae) from West Bengal, India. J Entomol Zool Stud 2023;11(3):111-115. DOI: 10.22271/j.ento.2023.v11.i3b.9197