Kronopolites ramosus Golovatch & Semenyuk 2021

Kronopolites ramosus Golovatch & Semenyuk, 2021 Fig. 3 Kronopolites ramosus Golovatch & Smenyuk, 2021: 479, figs 31–46. Type specimens. ZMUM. Material examined. Vietnam • Ha Tinh Province • 1 male, 1 female; Huong Son District, Son Kim commune; 18.46268°N, 105.15382°E; 350 m a. s. l.; natural forests; 3 May 2004; Anh D. Nguyen leg.; IEBR-Myr 111; Nghe An Province • 3 males, 6 females, 1 juvenile; Pu Mat National Park; Khe Thoi; 19.07991°N, 104.63714°E; closed forest, near stream; 4–10 April 2011; Anh D. Nguyen leg; IEBR-Myr 175 • 7 males, 5 females; same as the sample IEBR-Myr 175; IEBR-Myr 176 • 2 females, 2 juveniles; Pu Mat National Park, Thac Chem waterfall; 18.97150°N, 104.80081°E; 430 m a. s. l.; evergreen closed forest; 4–10 April 2011; Anh D. Nguyen leg.; IEBR-Myr 199 • 5 males, 3 females; Pu Mat National Park; same as the sample IEBR-Myr 175; IEBR-Myr 553 • 1 male; Pu Mat National Park; same as the sample IEBR-Myr 175; IEBR-Myr 174. Diagnosis. The species can be distinguished by having a uniformly dark colouration and yellow legs, sternite 5 without any processes between male coxae 4, gonopod process a unciform while process b straight, both a and b slender and acuminate, sharing a broad lobe-shaped base. Distribution. Nghe An Province (Pu Mat NP) (Golovatch and Semenyuk 2021). Remarks. The species has been known only from Vietnam. Remarks. As mentioned above, two species, K. montanus and K. ramosus, show high similarity in morphology, especially gonopod conformation (see Figs 2, 3). The two species can be differentiated based on their gonopod processes: K. montanus has a short, wider coiled process a and a longer, straight, digitiform, subhelicoid process b, while K. ramosus has a short and thin, curved, process a with an apical hook and a longer, straight, acuminate process b. In addition, two species have high significant genetic divergence (COI distance = 11.6 %). Therefore, two species are clearly distinguished from each other.