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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Genus
Dybasia
Loomis
Dybasia
Loomis, 1964
, p. 100
Loomis (1964) described three species of this Panamanian genus in three separate genera, which I synonymized under
Dybasia
in 1972. He also established a separate family Dybasiidae for these obvious cleidogonids. Loomis extended the range of the genus into
Costa Rica
when he described
Dybasia interamericana
in 1974. The species of
Dybasia
are small for cleidogonids, about
10–12 mm
in length. The gonopods have long anterior sternal extensions which parallel the angiocoxites, and very small colpocoxites. The ninth legs have a long median extension from the coxoprefemur. The Panamanian species have prominent segmental paranota, but these were not described by Loomis (1974) for
D. interamericana
.
Three of the four species are illustrated in my 1972 monograph, and
D. interamericana
by Loomis (1974).
Cleidogona austrina
(see above) may also belong in this genus.