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<emphasis id="FAF2EA955F203D5DA34B18B67CD2FC04" bold="true" box="[264,485,948,974]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="3">Oxypyge varicolor</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="AC174B765F203D5DA3AF18B67FABFC04" author="Silvestri" box="[492,668,948,974]" pageId="2" pageNumber="8" refString="Silvestri, F. (1896) Chilopodi e diplopodi raccolti dal Dott. E. Festa a La Guayra, nel Darien e a Cuenca. Bollettino dei Musei di Zoologia e Anatomia comparata della R. Universita di Torino, 11 (254), 1 - 6." type="journal article" year="1896">Silvestri, 1896</bibRefCitation>
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(
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)
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<emphasis id="FAF2EA955F203D5DA34B18FD7CDFFBD2" box="[264,488,1023,1048]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="3">Material examined</emphasis>
: Three male and three female specimens from
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, Pearl Island, coll. J.P.E. Morrison,
<date id="BC3810475F203D5DA0441F257F95FB8B" box="[519,674,1063,1089]" pageId="2" pageNumber="3" value="1944-08-23">23 Aug 1944</date>
(deposited in
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National Museum), det. by R. Hoffman
<date id="BC3810475F203D5DA3011F4D7F26FBA3" box="[322,529,1103,1129]" pageId="2" pageNumber="3" value="1960-02-23">23 February 1960</date>
.
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Male: Coloration of preserved material: head, antennae, and collum very light yellowish brown (
<figureCitation id="50BD2A025F203D5DA3CC1F9D7CEEFB73" box="[399,473,1183,1209]" captionStart="FIGURES 1 ­ 6" captionStartId="3.[264,382,1128,1152]" captionTargetBox="[303,1283,449,1097]" captionTargetId="figure@3.[301,1285,449,812]" captionTargetPageId="3" captionText="FIGURES 1 ­ 6. Oxypyge varicolor Silvestri, 1896. 1, anterior gonopod, posterior view. 2, anterior gonopod, anterior view. 3, left posterior gonopod. 4, lateral view of male anterior segments, arrow points to gonopods. 5, posterior segments, male. 6, posterior segments, female. [Scale bar = 1.0 mm (Figs. 1 – 3)]" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/168769/files/figure.png" pageId="2" pageNumber="3">Fig. 4</figureCitation>
). Collum slightly darker with lighter margins. All other segments distinctly banded. Prozonite light cream color, metazonite dark brown with light cream colored posterior margin.
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Antennae with numerous sensory cones, flattened laterally, incrassate distally. 10–10 labral setae, clypeal groove dark and distinct, 37 ocelli. Width 3.36 (1)–3.48 (16)–3.32 (45), 47 ring segments. Distinct scobinae on segments 7–31, diminishing in size posteriorly. Tarsi lacking ventral pads. Epiproct short, not extending beyond paraprocts. Anal valves elongate, with dorsal hook (
<figureCitation id="50BD2A025F203D5DA0DD1EB57FC7FA1B" box="[670,752,1463,1489]" captionStart="FIGURES 1 ­ 6" captionStartId="3.[264,382,1128,1152]" captionTargetBox="[303,1283,449,1097]" captionTargetId="figure@3.[301,1285,449,812]" captionTargetPageId="3" captionText="FIGURES 1 ­ 6. Oxypyge varicolor Silvestri, 1896. 1, anterior gonopod, posterior view. 2, anterior gonopod, anterior view. 3, left posterior gonopod. 4, lateral view of male anterior segments, arrow points to gonopods. 5, posterior segments, male. 6, posterior segments, female. [Scale bar = 1.0 mm (Figs. 1 – 3)]" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/168769/files/figure.png" pageId="2" pageNumber="3">Figs. 5</figureCitation>
). Hypoproct long, triangular with blunt terminal end, not extending beyond paraprocts.
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Anterior and posterior gonopods illustrated in
<figureCitation id="50BD2A025F203D5DA1151D057E88F9EB" box="[854,959,1543,1569]" captionStart="FIGURES 1 ­ 6" captionStartId="3.[264,382,1128,1152]" captionTargetBox="[303,1283,449,1097]" captionTargetId="figure@3.[301,1285,449,812]" captionTargetPageId="3" captionText="FIGURES 1 ­ 6. Oxypyge varicolor Silvestri, 1896. 1, anterior gonopod, posterior view. 2, anterior gonopod, anterior view. 3, left posterior gonopod. 4, lateral view of male anterior segments, arrow points to gonopods. 5, posterior segments, male. 6, posterior segments, female. [Scale bar = 1.0 mm (Figs. 1 – 3)]" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/168769/files/figure.png" pageId="2" pageNumber="3">Figs 1–3</figureCitation>
. Sternum narrow distally (
<figureCitation id="50BD2A025F203D5DA6B81D057C2EF983" captionStart="FIGURES 1 ­ 6" captionStartId="3.[264,382,1128,1152]" captionTargetBox="[303,1283,449,1097]" captionTargetId="figure@3.[301,1285,449,812]" captionTargetPageId="3" captionText="FIGURES 1 ­ 6. Oxypyge varicolor Silvestri, 1896. 1, anterior gonopod, posterior view. 2, anterior gonopod, anterior view. 3, left posterior gonopod. 4, lateral view of male anterior segments, arrow points to gonopods. 5, posterior segments, male. 6, posterior segments, female. [Scale bar = 1.0 mm (Figs. 1 – 3)]" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/168769/files/figure.png" pageId="2" pageNumber="3">Fig. 2</figureCitation>
), coxae (Cx) and telopodite (Tp) as in other related rhinocricids (
<figureCitation id="50BD2A025F203D5DA6511D2D7961F983" box="[1042,1110,1583,1609]" captionStart="FIGURES 1 ­ 6" captionStartId="3.[264,382,1128,1152]" captionTargetBox="[303,1283,449,1097]" captionTargetId="figure@3.[301,1285,449,812]" captionTargetPageId="3" captionText="FIGURES 1 ­ 6. Oxypyge varicolor Silvestri, 1896. 1, anterior gonopod, posterior view. 2, anterior gonopod, anterior view. 3, left posterior gonopod. 4, lateral view of male anterior segments, arrow points to gonopods. 5, posterior segments, male. 6, posterior segments, female. [Scale bar = 1.0 mm (Figs. 1 – 3)]" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/168769/files/figure.png" pageId="2" pageNumber="3">Fig. 1</figureCitation>
). Posterior gonopod telopod (Tp,
<figureCitation id="50BD2A025F203D5DA3951D557F2BF9BB" box="[470,540,1623,1649]" captionStart="FIGURES 1 ­ 6" captionStartId="3.[264,382,1128,1152]" captionTargetBox="[303,1283,449,1097]" captionTargetId="figure@3.[301,1285,449,812]" captionTargetPageId="3" captionText="FIGURES 1 ­ 6. Oxypyge varicolor Silvestri, 1896. 1, anterior gonopod, posterior view. 2, anterior gonopod, anterior view. 3, left posterior gonopod. 4, lateral view of male anterior segments, arrow points to gonopods. 5, posterior segments, male. 6, posterior segments, female. [Scale bar = 1.0 mm (Figs. 1 – 3)]" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/168769/files/figure.png" pageId="2" pageNumber="3">Fig. 3</figureCitation>
) long and spatulate distally with a membranous interior. Seminal canal (Sc) visible extending from the coxae (Cx) to the solenomere (Sm). Seventh segmental ring posteroventrally modified as a postgenital bar to accommodate gonopods (
<figureCitation id="50BD2A025F203D5DA6B81DA57C21F923" captionStart="FIGURES 1 ­ 6" captionStartId="3.[264,382,1128,1152]" captionTargetBox="[303,1283,449,1097]" captionTargetId="figure@3.[301,1285,449,812]" captionTargetPageId="3" captionText="FIGURES 1 ­ 6. Oxypyge varicolor Silvestri, 1896. 1, anterior gonopod, posterior view. 2, anterior gonopod, anterior view. 3, left posterior gonopod. 4, lateral view of male anterior segments, arrow points to gonopods. 5, posterior segments, male. 6, posterior segments, female. [Scale bar = 1.0 mm (Figs. 1 – 3)]" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/168769/files/figure.png" pageId="2" pageNumber="3">Fig. 1</figureCitation>
). Posterior gonopods
<emphasis id="FAF2EA955F203D5DA0621DCD7F5EF922" box="[545,617,1743,1768]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="3">in situ</emphasis>
extending ~2.0 mm from gonopodal cavity.
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<emphasis id="FAF2EA955F203D5DA37B1DF57CA7F8DA" box="[312,400,1783,1808]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="3">Female</emphasis>
: Coloration as described for males. Antennae with numerous sensory cones, 10–10 labral setae, clypeal groove distinct, 36 ocelli. Width 3.87 (1)–4.35 (20)–3.35 (48), 50 ring segments. Scobinae not formed as distinct pits but appearing on ~8th segment as a dorsal pair of light scars, much less prominent than in males. Anal valves and terminal ring segments as in males (
<figureCitation id="50BD2A025F213D5CA0061A467FBAFE94" box="[581,653,324,350]" captionStart="FIGURES 1 ­ 6" captionStartId="3.[264,382,1128,1152]" captionTargetBox="[303,1283,449,1097]" captionTargetId="figure@3.[301,1285,449,812]" captionTargetPageId="3" captionText="FIGURES 1 ­ 6. Oxypyge varicolor Silvestri, 1896. 1, anterior gonopod, posterior view. 2, anterior gonopod, anterior view. 3, left posterior gonopod. 4, lateral view of male anterior segments, arrow points to gonopods. 5, posterior segments, male. 6, posterior segments, female. [Scale bar = 1.0 mm (Figs. 1 – 3)]" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/168769/files/figure.png" pageId="3" pageNumber="4">Fig. 6</figureCitation>
).
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<emphasis id="FAF2EA955F213D5CA34B1F6A7C98FB4A" bold="true" box="[264,431,1128,1152]" pageId="3" pageNumber="4">FIGURES 1­6.</emphasis>
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Silvestri, 1896
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. 1, anterior gonopod, posterior view. 2, anterior gonopod, anterior view. 3, left posterior gonopod. 4, lateral view of male anterior segments, arrow points to gonopods. 5, posterior segments, male. 6, posterior segments, female. [Scale bar = 1.0 mm (Figs. 1–3)]
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<emphasis id="FAF2EA955F213D5CA37B1E417CA9FA96" box="[312,414,1347,1372]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="4">Remarks</emphasis>
:
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<emphasis id="FAF2EA955F213D5CA3EC1E417F21FA96" box="[431,534,1347,1372]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="4">Oxypyge</emphasis>
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at present comprises eleven species distributed primarily throughout
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and
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. Though no diagnosis exists, Silvestri’s (1896) description and illustration of
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<emphasis id="FAF2EA955F213D5CA3AF1E917F64FA66" box="[492,595,1427,1452]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="4">Oxypyge</emphasis>
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is not sufficient to confidently ascertain the concept of the genus. However, references to the elongate anal valves and the depiction of a spatulate posterior gonopod indicate that Chamberlin’s (
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) subsequent placement of a number of Central American species in the genus was probably justified. Kraus’ placement of the Peruvian species,
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<emphasis id="FAF2EA955F213D5CA03D1D317E01F986" box="[638,822,1587,1612]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="4">O. tingomariae</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="AC174B765F213D5CA1011D317EEFF987" author="Kraus" box="[834,984,1587,1613]" pageId="3" pageNumber="8" refString="Kraus, V. O. (1957) Myriopoden aus Peru, V. Senckenbergiana biologica, 38, 95 - 114." type="journal article" year="1957">Kraus, 1957</bibRefCitation>
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, in
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seems biogeographically and morphologically questionable. Although the anal valve conformation illustrated by Kraus depicts a morphology similar to that of
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<emphasis id="FAF2EA955F213D5CA1911D81790FF956" box="[978,1080,1667,1692]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="4">Oxypyge</emphasis>
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; though the anterior and posterior gonopod morphology, particularly that of the solenomere (very robust), does not support placement of this species in the genus. Moreover, anal valve modification is ubiquitous throughout
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and is likely very plastic among taxa—thus not a feature that should be used alone as a synapomorphy for a genus.
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