A new miniature species of the milliped genus Cleidogona from Costa Rica (Diplopoda, Chordeumatida, Cleidogonidae), with a review of Central American Cleidogonidae
Author
Shear, William A.
text
Zootaxa
2013
3635
1
87
93
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3635.1.9
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1175-5326
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Cleidogona tajmulco
Chamberlin
Cleidogona tajmulco
Chamberlin, 1952
, p. 15; Shear, 1972, p. 158.
Type
and only locality:
Volcán
Tajmulco
, San Marcos Dept.,
Guatemala
.
As with
C. punctifer
(above), this species was described from a single female, which could not be found in 1972. In the same publication, Chamberlin (1952) described
C. mandeli
from a male collected at the same place and on the same day as the female
holotype
of
C. tajmulco
, but wrote that
C. tajmulco
was “a larger, more robust form than
mandeli
...(Chamberlin 1952)” and gave its length as about
3 mm
longer than the latter species. There is ample precedent for syntopy in Méxican and Central American cleidogonids, but the size difference in the two specimens does not preclude their being male and female of the same species.