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 minutissima
(Kraus)
Hirsutogona minutissima
Kraus, 1954
, p. 332.
Cleidogona minutissima:
Shear, 1972
, p. 222.
Type
and only locality:
Laguna de las Ranas, Sonosante Dept.,
El Salvador
.
Kraus (1954) established the genus
Hirsutogona
with this species as
type
of the genus; also included were
C. mirabilis
(Kraus)
,
C. godmani
Pocock
, and
C. stolli
Pocock. Kraus
had mounted the gonopods permanently on microscope slides, with attendent crushing and distortion, which made them difficult to study in 1972. However, the species placed in
Hirsutogona
are perfectly typical of Central American
Cleidogona
.
Cleidogona minutissima
,
despite its name, is still more than 50% larger than
C. huebnerae
n. sp.