Abstract
The family Paracortinidae Wang & Zhang 1993, comprising eleven species from southern China as well as Vietnam, is reviewed. Two new cave-dwelling species, Paracortina chinensis sp. n., from Yunnan Province, China, and P. multisegmentata sp. n., from Thanh Hoa Province, Vietnam, are described. The new discoveries permit a reconsideration of some characters applied in the systematics of the family. The monotypic genus Scotopetalum Shear 2000, with S. warreni Shear 2000, so far known only from two caves near Hanoi, Vietnam, and the apparently polytypic (sub) genera Altum Wang & Zhang 1993 and Relictus Wang & Zhang 1993, are synonymised under Paracortina Wang & Zhang 1993 (s. str.), all syn. n. A distribution map of, and a key to all hitherto described paracortinid millipedes are also provided.
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