A new high-altitude species of centipede from the Andes of Ecuador (Chilopoda, Geophilomorpha, Schendylidae)
Author
Pereira, Luis Alberto
text
Zootaxa
2018
2018-01-19
4374
3
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journal article
30959
10.11646/zootaxa.4374.3.5
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1175-5326
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Genus
Pectiniunguis
Bollman, 1889
Pectiniunguis
Bollman, 1889
, by original designation. Type species.
Pectiniunguis americanus
Bollman, 1889: 212
, by original designation.
Number of species: 24. For a list of species currently contained in
Pectiniunguis
see Foddai
et al.
(2000),
Pereira (2011)
, and ChiloBase 2.0 (
Bonato
et al.
2016
).
Diagnosis.
This genus is distinguished from others in the family
Schendylidae
by the following combination of features. Second maxillae pleurites not fused to the posterior internal border of the coxosternite (not as in
Ctenophilus
Cook,
1896
in which the pleurites are fused). Apical claw of telopodites pectinate on both dorsal and ventral edges (not smooth as in
Sogodes
Chamberlin, 1921
). Metasternites with pore-fields (not absent as in
Nannopodellus
Chamberlin, 1924
). Telopodites of ultimate legs with six articles (not five as in
Nannopodellus
), and ultimate pretarsus a small hairy tubercle, replaced by a small spine, or altogether absent, in both males and females (not claw-like as in
Nyctunguis
Chamberlin, 1914
). Each coxopleuron with two internal coxal organs of composite structure (“heterogeneous coxal glands”
sensu
Brölemann & Ribaut 1912
) [not of simple structure (“homogeneous coxal glands”) as in
Schendylops
Cook, 1899
].