Centre for Animal Taxonomy and Ecology (CATE), Christ College, Irinjalakuda, Kerala, India.
Institute for Problems of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninsky pr. 33, Moscow 119071, Russia.
Zootaxa. 2021 Jun 1;4980(2):373382. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4980.2.8.
Klimakodesmus Carl, 1932 is briefly redescribed, rediagnosed, and shown to be an oligotypic genus endemic to southern India and distinct from the particularly similar genus Pyrgodesmus Pocock, 1892, monobasic and endemic to Sri Lanka, by several important features of peripheral and, especially, gonopodal structure. A new species, Klimakodesmus bilobocaudatus sp. nov., is described from Kerala state, India, differing from the sole accepted, and type species K. gravelyi Carl, 1932, from Tamil Nadu state, primarily by the laterally trilobate paraterga, the caudally more deeply bilobate mid-dorsal keel on ring 19, and certain minor details of the gonopodal structure.
卡尔氏小瓢虫 Klimakodesmus Carl, 1932 简要重述、重新诊断，并被证明是一个在印度南部特有、与特别相似的斯里兰卡单种特有种 Pyrgodesmus Pocock, 1892 不同的小属，这主要是通过外围结构、尤其是交接器结构的几个重要特征。一种新物种，Klimakodesmus bilobocaudatus sp. nov.，来自印度喀拉拉邦，与唯一被接受的、也是来自泰米尔纳德邦的模式种 K. gravelyi Carl, 1932 主要不同，主要区别在于侧三裂的副背甲、第 19 环上尾部分叉更深的双叶中背龙骨，以及交接器结构的某些细微差别。
