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These wingless hexapods, which retain numerous plesiomorphic structures, remain less well understood compared to most other insect lineages. Through detailed morphological examination of specimens collected from southern China, we describe six new species (Pedetontus (Verhoeffilis) elegans\u00a0sp. n. from Zhejiang; P. (V.) hezhouensis\u00a0sp. n., P. (V.) jinxiuensis\u00a0sp. n., and P. (V.) nanningensis\u00a0sp. n. from Guangxi; and P. (V.) shenzhenensis\u00a0sp. n. and P. (V.) xanthospilus\u00a0sp. n. from Guangdong) of subgenus Verhoeffilis Paclt, 1972. This subgenus is distinguished from other members of the Petrobiinae by several diagnostic features: paired ocelli shoe-shaped (fusiform-shaped) and submedian; two pairs of retractile vesicles on abdominal segments II\u2013V; parameres restricted to coxite IX; penis opening small and apical; male genitalia not exceeding coxite IX; and ovipositor of primary type. The new species can be distinguished from known species and each other by the morphology of the compound eyes, maxilla, labial palps, legs, and genitalia; here, we provide detailed illustrations, tables, and descriptions. Furthermore, we sequence the COX1 gene to construct a phylogenetic tree of Microcoryphia. This contribution increases the total number of reported Pedetontus species in China to seventeen.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/insects16090916","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2025,9,2]],"date-time":"2025-09-02T16:05:22Z","timestamp":1756829122000},"page":"916","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":1,"title":["Six New Species of Genus Pedetontus Silvestri, 1911 (Microcoryphia: Machilidae), from Southern China"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"16","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0007-8411-7781","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Chen-Yang","family":"Shen","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang Normal University, Jinhua 321004, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0002-4592-8550","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Ting","family":"Yang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang Normal University, Jinhua 321004, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Jie-Hong","family":"Ji","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang Normal University, Jinhua 321004, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-7679-2548","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Jia-Yong","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Life Sciences, Zhejiang Normal University, Jinhua 321004, China"},{"name":"Key Laboratory of Wildlife Biotechnology, Conservation and Utilization of Zhejiang Province, Zhejiang Normal University, Jinhua 321004, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2025,9,1]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","first-page":"1","article-title":"Orden Microcoryphia","volume":"38","author":"Baltanas","year":"2015","journal-title":"Ibero Divers. 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