A new geophilid centipede of the genus Eurytion Attems, 1903 from northwestern Argentina. (Chilopoda: Geophilomorpha: Geophilidae)
Author
Pereira, Luis A.
text
Zootaxa
2005
794
1
12
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.170535
493c6502-6236-498e-aa1b-946a6eae5be1
11755326
170535
Genus
Eurytion
Attems, 1903
Diagnosis
: Clypeal area finely punctate or granulate, not areolate. First maxillae with or without coxosternal lappets, telopodite lappets present. Second maxillae with coxosternites medially joined through a narrow, hyaline and nonareolate membranous isthmus only; anterointernal corners of coxosternum without processes; coxosternal pore surronded by sclerotized rim. Forcipulae: pleurocoxosternal sutures extend parallel to the outer margin, chitinous lines absent. Sterna with pore fields. Last pair of legs with two tarsal articles; praetarsus of last legs clawlike, well developed; coxopleura of the last legbearing segment with numerous coxal organs opening separately or grouped in one or two clusters.
Type
of the genus
:
Geophilus (Eurytion) michaelseni
Attems, 1903
(currently
Eurytion michaelseni
(Attems, 1903))
by subsequent designation by
Attems 1929
—Tierreich 52: 254.
Remark:
For a complete list of the Neotropical species currently included in the genus
Eurytion
and corresponding full citations, see
Foddai, Pereira and Minelli (2000)
.