Three new species of the millipede genus Catharosoma Silvestri, 1897 from southern Brazil, with new records and a clarified identity of Catharosoma intermedium (Carl, 1902) (Diplopoda: Polydesmida: Paradoxosomatidae)
Author
Rodrigues, Patrícia E. S.
Author
Golovatch, Sergei I.
Author
Ott, Ricardo
Author
Ro- Drigues, Everton N. L.
text
Zootaxa
2020
2020-03-16
4751
1
119
130
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.4751.1.6
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1175-5326
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Catharosoma ibirapuitense
new species
Figs 26–31
Type material
: Male
holotype
from Santana do Livramento, APA do Ibirapuitã (
55°33’49”W
,
30°37’19”S
),
Rio Grande do Sul
,
Brazil
,
15.VIII. 2012
, Equipe MCN leg. (
MCN
1469),
Paratypes
: two females, same data as the
holotype
(
MCN
1470).
Diagnosis
:
Catharosoma ibirapuitense
n. sp.
resembles
C. mahnerti
Golovatch, 2005
(see
Golovatch 2005a: 814
, fig 17) by the shape of the parabasal lobe (p) of the solenophore which is strongly unciform, but differs by the solenophore which is larger, with its distal portion not being slender and unciform as in
C
.
mahnerti
.
Description
: Male
holotype
(Figs 26, 27). Length
24 mm
and maximum width of midbody of body rings
2.3 mm
.
Coloration
in alcohol: generally light brown with a yellowish longitudinal dorsal line. Legs and antennae yellowish brown. Legs densely setose, relatively long, tibiae swollen ventrally and with brushes starting in leg pair 9 until three last pairs. Male coxae of leg pair 2 with a prominent gonapophysis.
Antennae
densely setose, relatively long,
in situ
reaching behind body ring 3 dorsally. Frons and clypeus smooth and setose.
Integument
smooth and shining. Ozopores lateral, poorly visible. Limbus thin, caudal margin entire. Paraterga strongly reduced, arcuate sulci on body rings 2–4, missing posteriorly thereafter. Epiproct pointed, rather long, with a pair of dorsal and ventral spinnerets. Hypoproct subtriangular and relatively short.
Sternal structures of male
(Fig. 28). Sternum between coxae of leg pair 3 with a paramedian pair of setal bunches. Sternum between coxae of leg pair 4 with a long, linguiform, anteriad directed process. Between coxae of leg pair 5 a subtrapezoidal process with paramedian tufts of setae in each side. Sternum between coxae of leg pair 6 with two circular paramedian processes with tufts of short setae directed anteriad. Between coxae of leg pair 7 tuft of short setae directed posteriad. Postgonopodal sterna with paramedian spines.
Gonopods
(Figs 29–31) complex, subcircular. Gonocoxite subcylindrical and long; a densely setose prefemoral portion longer than femorite. Postfemoral portion shorter than solenophore (sph), the latter with a characteristic, strongly unciform, parabasal lobe (p).
Female. General coloration as in male. Length
25 mm
and maximum width of midbody
2.6 mm
. Paramedian cones on postgonopodal sterna as in male.
Distribution
: The species is known only from the
type
locality.
Etymology
: The specific name is an adjective in neuter gender, derived from the
type
locality, Ibirapuitã.