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
283539
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Cleidogona curvipes
(Loomis)
Costaricia curvipes
Loomis, 1966
, p. 227.
Cleidogona curvipes
: Shear, 1972
, p. 158.
Type
and only locality:
Cairo, Limón Prov.,
Costa Rica
.
Loomis (1966) based the genus
Costaricia
on the bifurcate process of the twelfth sternum, a character shared by
C. ceibana
and perhaps by
C. bifurca
,
see notes above. I did not consider this single character to be diagnostic of a genus, but it may indicate relationship of the three species. The gonopods of all three appear to be distinct from each other.