Cladistic analysis and taxonomic review of the millipede tribe Arthrosolaenomeridini Hoffman, 1976 (Polydesmida: Chelodesmidae)
Author
Bouzan, Rodrigo Salvador
Pós-graduação em Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brasil.
Author
Iniesta, Luiz Felipe M.
0000-0002-0529-4162
Pós-graduação em Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brasil. & luiz-moretti @ hotmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 0529 - 4162
luiz-moretti@hotmail.com
Author
Brescovit, Antonio Domingos
0000-0002-1511-5324
antonio. brescovit @ butantan. gov. br; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 1511 - 5324
antonio.brescovit@butantan.gov.br
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Zootaxa
2021
2021-05-14
4970
2
201
256
journal article
6318
10.11646/zootaxa.4970.2.1
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Abiliodesmus cataractae
(
Hoffman, 1976
)
new combination
Figures 21
,
24G–H
,
25
Angelodesmus cataractae
Hoffman, 1976: 174
, figs 1−6. Male
holotype
and female
paratype
from
Fazenda Cachoeirinha
,
Jataí
(
17°52’54”S
,
51°42’51”W
),
Goiás
,
Brazil
,
XI.1962
,
Departamento de Zoologia Expedition
coll., deposited in
MZSP 1065
and 1066, respectively, examined.
Diagnosis.
Adult males differ from all other species of the genus by the combination of the following characters: sternite of seventh body ring without ventral projections, presence of a large lateral expansion in the solenomere (
Figs 21D–E
) and the prefemoral process not involving the solenomere, in ectal view (
Fig. 21E
).
Description.
Male (
Holotype
, MZSP 1065). Coloration (long-preserved in 70% ethanol): Head and antennae ochre with the seventh antennomere having three well-demarcated invaginations and one slight invagination between the sensory cones. Body ocher with the edges of the paranota whitish (
Figs 21A–C
). Legs ocher yellowish. Telson ocher. Total length: 37.14. Total width: 5.88. Collum, length 1.83, width 5.52. Antennomere lengths (1>7): 0.52; 1.40; 1.25; 1.09; 1.03; 1.17; 0.30. Podomeres lengths (1>7): 0.69; 0.88; 1.98; 0.83; 1.03; 1.39; 0.45. Gonopod aperture, length 1.14, width 1.93. Telson, length 0.95. Gonopods: lost.
Female (
Paratype
, MZSP 1066). Body as in male. Total length: 35.90. Total width: 5.64. Antennomere lengths (1>7): 0.51; 0.91; 1.06; 1.06; 0.83; 1.16; 0.22. Podomeres lengths (1>7): 0.50; 0.74; 1.64; 0.55; 0.70; 1.13; 0.38. Telson, length 0.81. Epigyne rounded with regular edges. Vulvae (
Figs 24G–H
): length 0.95, width 0.50. External valve: length 0.63, width 0.22. Internal valve: length 0.64, width 0.22. Operculum: length 0.32, width 0.39.
Distribution.
Known only from the
type
locality (
Fig. 25
).