Further contribution to the knowledge of Ityphilus calinus Chamberlin, 1957, a poorly known ballophilid centipede from Colombia, with description of Ityphilus bonatoi, a new diminutive geophilomorph species from Brazil (Myriapoda: Chilopoda, Geophilomorpha)
Author
Pereira, Luis Alberto
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Zootaxa
2013
3716
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journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.3716.4.1
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Genus
Ityphilus
Cook, 1899
Diagnosis.
This genus can be distinguished from the other genera currently recognized in the family
Ballophilidae
by the following combination of features. Antennae somewhat curved in the middle to truly geniculate, distally slightly thickened to strongly clavate. Mid-piece of labrum membranous, without teeth or with minute hair-like structures. Forcipular coxosternite with incomplete to nearly complete chitin-lines. Internal edge of forcipular tarsungulum smooth or serrate. Ventral pore-fields of anterior region of the body single (subcircular to transversely elliptical in shape), those of posterior region, single or divided into two areas. Coxopleura of the last leg-bearing segment each with two internal coxal organs of simple structure (“homogeneous coxal glands”,
sensu
Brölemann & Ribaut 1912). Legs of the ultimate pair with seven articles, ultimate pretarsus setiform, basally tubercle-like and usually accompanied by a minute spine.
Type
species of the genus.
Ityphilus lilacinus
Cook, 1899
, by original designation.
Remarks.
All species currently assigned to the taxon are listed in Minelli, 2006; Bonato
et al
. (2007); Pereira (2010, 2012, 2013a).
The actual distinction between
Ityphilus
and the probably closely related genera
Ballophilus
Cook, 1896
and
Diplethmus
Cook, 1899
deserves further investigation (cf.
Turk
1955, Crabill 1960, Pereira & Minelli 1996, Pereira
et al.
1997, 2000, Bonato
et al.
2007).