A new species of Notiphilides from Amazonia, with a redescription of N. grandis (Chilopoda, Geophilomorpha, Oryidae)
Author
Calvanese, Victor C.
Author
Brescovit, Antonio D.
text
Zootaxa
2017
4232
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journal article
36549
10.11646/zootaxa.4232.1.1
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1175-5326
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Genus
Notiphilides
Latzel, 1880
Type species:
Notiphilus maximiliani
Humbert & Saussure, 1870
by monotypy.
Diagnosis.
Species of the genus
Notiphilides
can be distinguished from other
Oryidae
by the following combination of characters: last pair of legs with 6 segments (
Figs 1
C–D, 2E–F, 7E–F, 9E–F), 1̄3 rows of paratergites along the body (
Figs 6
A–B, 13A–B) and tergites with two shallow pits in the anterior portion, slightly offset to the side (
Figs 6
C, 13C).
Composition.
Five species:
Notiphilides maximiliani
(Humbert & Saussure, 1870)
N. saussurei
Sseliwanoff, 1881
N. erga
Chamberlin, 1950
N. grandis
Brölemann, 1905
N. amazonica
sp. n.