The centipede genus Otostigmus Porat in Brazil: Description of three new species from the Atlantic Forest; a summary and an identification key to the Brazilian species of this genus (Chilopoda, Scolopendromorpha, Scolopendridae, Otostigminae)
Author
Chagas-Júnior, Amazonas
text
Zootaxa
2012
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journal article
10.5281/zenodo.211446
81770fb8-7210-40e7-9e0d-ebe005a4f05a
1175-5326
211446
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Otostigmus diringshofeni
Bücherl, 1969
Type
locality.
São Paulo de Olivença, state of Amazonas.
Brazilian published records.
None.
New records.
None.
Remarks.
Otostigmus diringshofeni
was the last species of centipede to be described by Wolfgang Bücherl and the most recently described species of
Parotostigmus
. In the original description of
O
. diringshofeni
, the
type
locality was cited as São Paulo, but the label of the
holotype
states São Paulo de Olivença, northwestern
Brazil
, near the border of
Colombia
(
Figure 42
). This
Otostigmus
species resembles
O
. pococki
by the rugose dorsal integument, the presence of median longitudinal keel and longitudinal keels on each side of the paramedian sutures on the tergites and a digitiform appendix which emerges from the base in dorsomedian position in the prefemur of the ultimate pair of legs. The shape and length of the digitiform appendix and position of the tuft of hairs are similar to
O
. rex
also, but
O
. diringshofeni
differs from the latter in the absence of paramedian keels on tergites and the presence of two tarsal spurs on first three pairs of legs.
Bücherl (1969)
stated that
O
. diringshofeni
was related to
O
. insignis
,
O
. silvestrii
,
O
. lavanus
and
O
. mesethus
by the similarity of the digitiform appendix in male of
O
. diringshofeni
, but it was distinct from those by the absence of a distal prolongation of the coxa of legs 19 and 20.