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<emphasis id="F6C8223B203BFF89FF1A6445FE18FCC5" bold="true" box="[151,437,847,873]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="548">Stemmiulus brasiliensis</emphasis>
Iniesta &amp; Ferreira
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(
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)
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.
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male (
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5681), SL22 cave (Serra Leste
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,
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), Curionópolis/PA,
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, 2010, leg. M. P. Oliveira.
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:
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(
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3701, 5682), SL51 and SL22 caves, Curionópolis/PA,
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, 2010;
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(
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5683), SL22 cave, Curionópolis/PA,
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, 2010, all leg. M. P. Oliveira.
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<emphasis id="F6C8223B203BFF89FF4A6340FEB9FBCF" bold="true" box="[199,276,1098,1123]" pageId="2" pageNumber="548">Name.</emphasis>
To emphasize
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, the
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.
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<paragraph id="C403FE29203BFF89FF1A615FFAF4F9C7" blockId="2.[151,1369,1621,1644]" box="[151,1369,1621,1644]" pageId="2" pageNumber="548">
<emphasis id="F6C8223B203BFF89FF1A615FFEBFF9C7" bold="true" box="[151,274,1621,1643]" pageId="2" pageNumber="548">FIGURE 2.</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="F6C8223B203BFF89FE95615FFDA5F9C7" box="[280,520,1621,1643]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="548">Stemmiulus brasiliensis</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="F6C8223B203BFF89FD80615CFDF3F9C7" bold="true" box="[525,606,1622,1643]" pageId="2" pageNumber="548">sp. nov.</emphasis>
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, A) live paratype female; B) anterior part of body, a fixed paratype female.
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<emphasis id="F6C8223B203BFF89FF4A6199FE4CF900" bold="true" box="[199,481,1683,1708]" pageId="2" pageNumber="548">Comparative diagnosis.</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="F6C8223B203BFF89FE656199FD5CF907" box="[488,753,1683,1707]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="548">Stemmiulus brasiliensis</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="F6C8223B203BFF89FD756199FCFEF900" bold="true" box="[760,851,1683,1708]" pageId="2" pageNumber="548">sp. nov.</emphasis>
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is distinguished from the other Brazilian species by the peculiar cephalic chaetotaxy pattern of the male and the different gonopod structure (cf.
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). The species
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<emphasis id="F6C8223B203BFF89FF7961D1FEE6F95F" box="[244,331,1755,1779]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="548">S. adisi</emphasis>
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,
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<emphasis id="F6C8223B203BFF89FED261D1FDA9F95F" box="[351,516,1755,1779]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="548">S. amazonicus</emphasis>
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and
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<emphasis id="F6C8223B203BFF89FDC861D1FD48F95F" box="[581,741,1755,1779]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="548">S. wellingtoni</emphasis>
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all show complex gonopod conformations compared to
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<emphasis id="F6C8223B203BFF89FA0A61D1FEB5F8BB" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="548">S. brasiliensis</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="F6C8223B203BFF89FEAC61F5FED0F8B4" bold="true" box="[289,381,1791,1816]" pageId="2" pageNumber="548">sp. nov.</emphasis>
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The differences are especially clear in angiocoxite (
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) and colpocoxite (
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) structure. The species
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<emphasis id="F6C8223B203BFF89FF7E6029FE3FF897" box="[243,402,1827,1851]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="548">S. wellingtoni</emphasis>
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has a trifurcate
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tip while the latter in the other species is either bifid or, like in
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<emphasis id="F6C8223B203BFF89FA0A6029FEB5F8F3" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="548">S. brasiliensis</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="F6C8223B203BFF89FEA8604DFE28F8CC" bold="true" box="[293,389,1863,1888]" pageId="2" pageNumber="548">sp. nov.</emphasis>
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, unipartite. In
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<emphasis id="F6C8223B203BFF89FDB1604DFD38F8F3" box="[572,661,1863,1887]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="548">S. adisi</emphasis>
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, the tip of
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is wider distally and shortened laterally while
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<emphasis id="F6C8223B203BFF89FA0A604DFEB6F82F" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="548">S. amazonicus</emphasis>
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has a diagonal/digitiform tip and a wider apex. In
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<emphasis id="F6C8223B203BFF89FCE26061FBA2F82F" box="[879,1039,1899,1923]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="548">S. brasiliensis</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="F6C8223B203BFF89FB946061FBD8F828" bold="true" box="[1049,1141,1899,1924]" pageId="2" pageNumber="548">sp. nov.</emphasis>
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,
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is highly distinctive, being tiny and devoid of a differentiated tip.
<emphasis id="F6C8223B203BFF89FD056085FD33F804" bold="true" box="[648,670,1935,1960]" pageId="2" pageNumber="548">K</emphasis>
in the new species is also different, elongated, irregular in shape and membranous at apex, versus wide and with some apical projections in
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<emphasis id="F6C8223B203BFF89FC3960B9FBAAF867" box="[948,1031,1971,1995]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="548">S. adisi</emphasis>
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, rounded and thin in
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<emphasis id="F6C8223B203BFF89FB7660B9FA31F867" box="[1275,1436,1971,1995]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="548">S. amazonicus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
or thin and more strongly curved mesad in
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<emphasis id="F6C8223B203BFF89FDF460DDFCBEF843" box="[633,787,2007,2031]" italics="true" pageId="2" pageNumber="548">S. wellingtoni</emphasis>
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.
</paragraph>
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<emphasis id="F6C8223B203AFF88FF1A65DEFEBFFD45" bold="true" box="[151,274,724,746]" pageId="3" pageNumber="549">FIGURE 3.</emphasis>
Schematic drawings of head of
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<emphasis id="F6C8223B203AFF88FDD565DEFCEAFD46" box="[600,839,724,746]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="549">Stemmiulus brasiliensis</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="F6C8223B203AFF88FCC065DEFC33FD45" bold="true" box="[845,926,724,745]" pageId="3" pageNumber="549">sp. nov.</emphasis>
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A) Male paratype; B) Female paratype.
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<emphasis id="F6C8223B203AFF88FF4A641BFED0FC86" bold="true" box="[199,381,785,810]" pageId="3" pageNumber="549">Measurements.</emphasis>
Length from
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; maximum midbody diameter between
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; body with 3541 rings, plus 12 apodous before telson.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="C403FE29203AFF88FF4A6453FD06FBE6" blockId="3.[151,1437,785,2034]" pageId="3" pageNumber="549">
<emphasis id="F6C8223B203AFF88FF4A6453FE62FCDE" bold="true" box="[199,463,857,882]" pageId="3" pageNumber="549">Description of adults.</emphasis>
<emphasis id="F6C8223B203AFF88FE566453FD45FCDD" box="[475,744,857,881]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="549">General characteristics</emphasis>
: Head and body brownish. Head with different chaetotaxy patterns in male (
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A) and female (
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B). One large ocellus on each side of head. In length, antennomere 1 &lt;3 = 4 ≈ 5 = 6 &lt;2. Ozopores located dorsolaterally and starting with fifth body ring. Lateral region of tergites with parallel striations, including above ozopore. Telson with 3+3 evident spinnerets. Gnatochilarium rounded in male: stipes enlarged and curved, mentum triangular, lamellae linguales striated, with 1+1 setae; females with a square gnatochilarium: stipes straight, mentum subtriangular, lamellae linguales non-striate. Trunk with a dorsal axial suture and line; a clear lateral line on each side.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="C403FE29203AFF88FF4A635FFF73F9EE" blockId="3.[151,1437,785,2034]" pageId="3" pageNumber="549">
<emphasis id="F6C8223B203AFF88FF4A635FFE1AFBC1" box="[199,439,1109,1133]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="549">Male characteristics:</emphasis>
First to third pairs of legs modified. Legs 1 with enlarged coxae, these apparently fused to prefemur, also beset with long ventral setae; femur elongated, with short ventral setae and one especially long seta; postfemur and tibia similar, with long ventral setae; tarsus elongated, with a ventral row of short setae reaching the claw. Legs 2 (
<figureCitation id="5C87E2AC203AFF88FE5B63CBFDB0FB76" box="[470,541,1217,1242]" captionStart="FIGURE 4" captionStartId="4.[151,249,1804,1826]" captionTargetBox="[184,1402,591,1781]" captionTargetId="figure@4.[184,1402,591,1782]" captionTargetPageId="4" captionText="FIGURE 4. Microscopic images of male paratype of Stemmiulus brasiliensis sp. nov. (ISLA 3701). A) Second pair of legs in oral view and B) Second pair of legs in caudal view; C) Third pair of legs; D) Detail of tarsus of third pair. Scale bar: 0.1 mm. Abbreviations: Cx = coxae; Pf = prefemur; F = femur; Psf = postfemur; Tb = tibia; T = tarsus; Ss = spatulate setae; Cs = coxosternite; Lcs = coxosternal lobe; Pcs = coxosternal process; 1 ° Tp = first telopoditomere; 2 ° Tp = second telopoditomere. Scale bar: 0.1 mm. The roman numbers indicate the sequence of spatulate setae." httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/236370/files/figure.png" pageId="3" pageNumber="549">Fig. 4</figureCitation>
A, B) with a coxosternal lobe (
<emphasis id="F6C8223B203AFF88FC0163CBFC1BFB76" bold="true" box="[908,950,1217,1242]" pageId="3" pageNumber="549">Lcs</emphasis>
) beset with short setae;
<emphasis id="F6C8223B203AFF88FB5563CBFAAFFB76" bold="true" box="[1240,1282,1217,1242]" pageId="3" pageNumber="549">Lcs</emphasis>
rounded and supporting some long distal setae in oral view; telopodite (
<emphasis id="F6C8223B203AFF88FCB163EFFC07FB52" bold="true" box="[828,938,1253,1278]" pageId="3" pageNumber="549">1°, 2° Tp</emphasis>
) elongated and digitiform, beset with short setae; coxosternal process (
<emphasis id="F6C8223B203AFF88FE436203FE5BFA8E" bold="true" box="[462,502,1289,1314]" pageId="3" pageNumber="549">Pcs</emphasis>
) acute and elongated. Legs 3 (
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C, D) with a non-enlarged
<emphasis id="F6C8223B203AFF88FB416203FB43FA8E" bold="true" box="[1228,1262,1289,1314]" pageId="3" pageNumber="549">Cx</emphasis>
;
<emphasis id="F6C8223B203AFF88FB736203FAB4FA8E" bold="true" box="[1278,1305,1289,1314]" pageId="3" pageNumber="549">Pf</emphasis>
,
<emphasis id="F6C8223B203AFF88FAA56203FA9AFA8E" bold="true" box="[1320,1335,1289,1314]" pageId="3" pageNumber="549">F</emphasis>
,
<emphasis id="F6C8223B203AFF88FACB6203FAC6FA8E" bold="true" box="[1350,1387,1289,1314]" pageId="3" pageNumber="549">Psf</emphasis>
and
<emphasis id="F6C8223B203AFF88FF1A6227FF17FAEA" bold="true" box="[151,186,1325,1350]" pageId="3" pageNumber="549">Tb</emphasis>
with long ventral setae and square in shape;
<emphasis id="F6C8223B203AFF88FD396227FD6AFAEA" bold="true" box="[692,711,1325,1350]" pageId="3" pageNumber="549">T</emphasis>
with long dorsal setae, nine ventral spatulate setae (
<emphasis id="F6C8223B203AFF88FA9F6227FA80FAEA" bold="true" box="[1298,1325,1325,1350]" pageId="3" pageNumber="549">Ss</emphasis>
) and four long setae around the tarsal claw. No paragonopods (ninth pair of leg) were found, perhaps vestigial (reduced) or non-existent in this species. Gonopods elongated (
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A, B), with basal section wider than distal one;
<emphasis id="F6C8223B203AFF88FA97627FFA90FA22" bold="true" box="[1306,1341,1397,1422]" pageId="3" pageNumber="549">Cx</emphasis>
fused to sternum, with two large, rounded, gonopodal processes. Distal region with two well-developed extensions: a long and slender angiocoxite (
<emphasis id="F6C8223B203AFF88FE3962B7FE7BFA7A" bold="true" box="[436,470,1469,1494]" pageId="3" pageNumber="549">Ag</emphasis>
) resembling a thin shell adhered to colpocoxite (
<emphasis id="F6C8223B203AFF88FB8962B7FBB7FA7A" bold="true" box="[1028,1050,1469,1494]" pageId="3" pageNumber="549">K</emphasis>
) and carrying short setae in distal portion.
<emphasis id="F6C8223B203AFF88FF7462EBFEA2FA56" bold="true" box="[249,271,1505,1530]" pageId="3" pageNumber="549">K</emphasis>
with curved setae in the latter portion; tip with a membranous area (
<emphasis id="F6C8223B203AFF88FBB262EBFBC5FA56" bold="true" box="[1087,1128,1505,1530]" pageId="3" pageNumber="549">Ma</emphasis>
) surrounding the end of a seminal groove (
<emphasis id="F6C8223B203AFF88FEDB610FFEDEF9B2" bold="true" box="[342,371,1541,1566]" pageId="3" pageNumber="549">Sg</emphasis>
).
<emphasis id="F6C8223B203AFF88FE00610FFE06F9B2" bold="true" box="[397,427,1541,1566]" pageId="3" pageNumber="549">Sg</emphasis>
visible at
<emphasis id="F6C8223B203AFF88FDAE610FFD94F9B2" bold="true" box="[547,569,1541,1566]" pageId="3" pageNumber="549">K</emphasis>
beginning with junction of gonopodal segments. Both
<emphasis id="F6C8223B203AFF88FB22610FFB7CF9B2" bold="true" box="[1199,1233,1541,1566]" pageId="3" pageNumber="549">Ag</emphasis>
and
<emphasis id="F6C8223B203AFF88FA86610FFA8CF9B2" bold="true" box="[1291,1313,1541,1566]" pageId="3" pageNumber="549">K</emphasis>
with thick edges.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="C403FE29203AFF88FF4A6147FBA9F95A" blockId="3.[151,1437,785,2034]" pageId="3" pageNumber="549">
<emphasis id="F6C8223B203AFF88FF4A6147FEBCF9CA" bold="true" box="[199,273,1613,1638]" pageId="3" pageNumber="549">Notes.</emphasis>
The new species can be recognized, in males, by a slight difference in head chaetotaxy. In the Brazilian species, the first row of setae is close to the occipital suture, the row being composed of 4 setae, as observed in
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<emphasis id="F6C8223B203AFF88FA0A6178FEB5F901" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="549">S. brasiliensis</emphasis>
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<emphasis id="F6C8223B203AFF88FEA9619FFE2FF902" bold="true" box="[292,386,1685,1710]" pageId="3" pageNumber="549">sp. nov.</emphasis>
</taxonomicNameLabel>
,
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<emphasis id="F6C8223B203AFF88FE19619CFD94F901" box="[404,569,1686,1709]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="549">S. amazonicus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
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<emphasis id="F6C8223B203AFF88FDF4619CFCBAF901" box="[633,791,1685,1709]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="549">S. wellingtoni</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, or 2 setae (maybe 2+2 dislocated), as in
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<emphasis id="F6C8223B203AFF88FA9E619CFAC7F901" box="[1299,1386,1685,1709]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="549">S. adisi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
(cf.
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). Furthermore, there are other, straight or diagonal rows. These setae are arranged mainly near the suture on the clypeus, on the frons and labrum (
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;
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).
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="C403FE29203AFF88FF4A6008FA31F805" blockId="3.[151,1437,785,2034]" pageId="3" pageNumber="549">
As regards the gonopod, the genus
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<emphasis id="F6C8223B203AFF88FDD9600BFD79F8B5" box="[596,724,1793,1817]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="549">Stemmiulus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
shows remarkable variation between the species, mainly in
<emphasis id="F6C8223B203AFF88FAF7600BFA31F8B6" bold="true" box="[1402,1436,1793,1818]" pageId="3" pageNumber="549">Ag</emphasis>
and
<emphasis id="F6C8223B203AFF88FF47602FFF4DF892" bold="true" box="[202,224,1829,1854]" pageId="3" pageNumber="549">K</emphasis>
structure (
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,
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Mauriès
<emphasis id="F6C8223B203AFF88FEC46040FED0F8CD" box="[329,381,1865,1889]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="549">et al</emphasis>
. 2010
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). According to
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, most of the American species have a distolaterally expanded
<emphasis id="F6C8223B203AFF88FE866067FE80F82A" bold="true" box="[267,301,1901,1926]" pageId="3" pageNumber="549">Ag</emphasis>
. The species
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<emphasis id="F6C8223B203AFF88FE476064FDC1F829" box="[458,620,1902,1925]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="549">S. amazonicus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
,
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<emphasis id="F6C8223B203AFF88FDF66064FCBAF829" box="[635,791,1901,1925]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="549">S. wellingtoni</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
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<emphasis id="F6C8223B203AFF88FCDC6064FCF2F829" box="[849,863,1902,1925]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="549">S</emphasis>
.
<emphasis id="F6C8223B203AFF88FCE36067FC09F829" box="[878,932,1901,1925]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="549">adisi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
share this trait (
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), but the new species has no evident expansion. The
<emphasis id="F6C8223B203AFF88FDC8609BFDC5F806" bold="true" box="[581,616,1937,1962]" pageId="3" pageNumber="549">Ag</emphasis>
structure in
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<emphasis id="F6C8223B203AFF88FD7E6098FC22F805" box="[755,911,1937,1961]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="549">S. brasiliensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
<emphasis id="F6C8223B203AFF88FC18609BFC43F806" bold="true" box="[917,1006,1937,1962]" pageId="3" pageNumber="549">
<taxonomicNameLabel id="EDFB9F40203AFF88FC18609BFC43F806" box="[917,1006,1937,1962]" pageId="3" pageNumber="549" rank="species">sp. nov.</taxonomicNameLabel>
</emphasis>
seems to serve as a lateral shield to
<emphasis id="F6C8223B203AFF88FAF2609BFA38F806" bold="true" box="[1407,1429,1937,1962]" pageId="3" pageNumber="549">K</emphasis>
.
</paragraph>
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In the Brazilian species of
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<emphasis id="F6C8223B203AFF88FD8660BFFD26F861" box="[523,651,1973,1997]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="549">Stemmiulus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, males generally show no meaningful differences in leg structure, although there is some variation in the second and third pairs. All Brazilian species are similar in leg 1 conformation. The second pair is the most strongly reduced. In
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<emphasis id="F6C8223B203DFF8FFCE16792FBA7FF1C" box="[876,1034,152,176]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="550">S. brasiliensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
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<emphasis id="F6C8223B203DFF8FFB9E679DFBC3FF1C" bold="true" box="[1043,1134,151,176]" pageId="4" pageNumber="550">sp. nov.</emphasis>
</taxonomicNameLabel>
,
<emphasis id="F6C8223B203DFF8FFBF0679DFB32FF1C" bold="true" box="[1149,1183,151,176]" pageId="4" pageNumber="550">Cx</emphasis>
is very different from that in the other species. Both
<taxonomicName id="03BC85AA203DFF8FFE6267B6FDEFFF78" box="[495,578,188,212]" class="Diplopoda" family="Stemmiulidae" genus="Prostemmiulus" kingdom="Animalia" order="Stemmiulida" pageId="4" pageNumber="550" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="adisi">
<emphasis id="F6C8223B203DFF8FFE6267B6FDEFFF78" box="[495,578,188,212]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="550">S. adisi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
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<emphasis id="F6C8223B203DFF8FFDF767B6FCB6FF78" box="[634,795,188,212]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="550">S. amazonicus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
show a kind of shoulder while such a structure is absent from
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<emphasis id="F6C8223B203DFF8FFF5867EAFEDEFF54" box="[213,371,224,248]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="550">S. brasiliensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
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<emphasis id="F6C8223B203DFF8FFEF767D5FE78FF54" bold="true" box="[378,469,223,248]" pageId="4" pageNumber="550">sp. nov.</emphasis>
</taxonomicNameLabel>
In all Brazilian species,
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is large, yet without
<emphasis id="F6C8223B203DFF8FFC7067D5FB85FF54" bold="true" box="[1021,1064,223,248]" pageId="4" pageNumber="550">Lcs</emphasis>
in
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<emphasis id="F6C8223B203DFF8FFBC167EAFB32FF54" box="[1100,1183,224,248]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="550">S. adisi</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
,
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<emphasis id="F6C8223B203DFF8FFB2367EAFAE2FF5B" box="[1198,1359,224,247]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="550">S. amazonicus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
and
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<emphasis id="F6C8223B203DFF8FFA0A67EAFEB8FEB0" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="550">S. wellingtoni</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, while
<emphasis id="F6C8223B203DFF8FFEE3660EFE3DFEB1" bold="true" box="[366,400,260,285]" pageId="4" pageNumber="550">Tp</emphasis>
digitiform. However, its outline slightly varies between the species. In leg 3 structure,
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<emphasis id="F6C8223B203DFF8FFA0A660EFEB5FEEC" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="550">S. brasiliensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
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<emphasis id="F6C8223B203DFF8FFE92662DFED5FEEC" bold="true" box="[287,376,295,320]" pageId="4" pageNumber="550">sp. nov.</emphasis>
</taxonomicNameLabel>
is notably different, mainly in
<emphasis id="F6C8223B203DFF8FFD59662DFD42FEEC" bold="true" box="[724,751,295,320]" pageId="4" pageNumber="550">Pf</emphasis>
and
<emphasis id="F6C8223B203DFF8FFCA9662DFC98FEEC" bold="true" box="[804,821,295,320]" pageId="4" pageNumber="550">F</emphasis>
which are not enlarged.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="C403FE29203DFF8FFF4A6646FD99FDB4" blockId="4.[151,1436,151,536]" pageId="4" pageNumber="550">
The size and number of body segments can vary between species. In the Brazilian species, this number ranges from 42 to 53 (
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). In
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<emphasis id="F6C8223B203DFF8FFD9A667AFD18FE24" box="[535,693,368,392]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="550">S. brasiliensis</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
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<emphasis id="F6C8223B203DFF8FFD306665FCB5FE24" bold="true" box="[701,792,367,392]" pageId="4" pageNumber="550">sp. nov.</emphasis>
</taxonomicNameLabel>
, the body is with 3541 rings. This variation is common within the order, with extremes found in S
<emphasis id="F6C8223B203DFF8FFDFD669EFCF5FE00" box="[624,856,404,428]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="550">temmiulus annulatus</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="A02D83D8203DFF8FFCED669EFBAEFE01" author="Silvestri" box="[864,1027,404,429]" pageId="4" pageNumber="550" refString="Silvestri, F. (1916) Contribuzione alla conoscenza degli Stemmiuloidea (Diplopoda). Bollettino del Laboratorio di Zoologia Generale e Agraria, Portici, 10, 287 - 347." type="journal article" year="1916">Silvestri, 1916</bibRefCitation>
(38 segments, regardless of the new species described herein) and
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<emphasis id="F6C8223B203DFF8FFE6866B2FD2AFE7C" box="[485,647,440,464]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="550">S. diversicolor</emphasis>
<bibRefCitation id="A02D83D8203DFF8FFD0366BDFC84FE7C" author="Loomis" box="[654,809,439,464]" pageId="4" pageNumber="550" refString="Loomis, H. F. (1964) The millipeds of Panama (Diplopoda). Fieldiana, Zoology, 47 (1), 1 - 136. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 3182." type="journal article" year="1964">Loomis, 1964</bibRefCitation>
</taxonomicName>
(54 segments) (
<bibRefCitation id="A02D83D8203DFF8FFC5666BDFBD1FE7C" author="Silvestri" box="[987,1148,439,464]" pageId="4" pageNumber="550" refString="Silvestri, F. (1916) Contribuzione alla conoscenza degli Stemmiuloidea (Diplopoda). Bollettino del Laboratorio di Zoologia Generale e Agraria, Portici, 10, 287 - 347." type="journal article" year="1916">Silvestri 1916</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation id="A02D83D8203DFF8FFB0A66BDFAB2FE7C" author="Loomis" box="[1159,1311,439,464]" pageId="4" pageNumber="550" refString="Loomis, H. F. (1964) The millipeds of Panama (Diplopoda). Fieldiana, Zoology, 47 (1), 1 - 136. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.5962 / bhl. title. 3182." type="journal article" year="1964">Loomis 1964</bibRefCitation>
). Although there are few studies concerning stemmiulidan ontogeny, the development can be recognized as euanamorphotic (
<bibRefCitation id="A02D83D8203DFF8FFF1366F5FE93FDB4" author="Mauries" box="[158,318,511,536]" pageId="4" pageNumber="550" refString="Mauries, J. P. (1984) Les premiers Stemmiulides signales au Bresil: Tros especes nouivelles de la region de Manaus dont une de la foret inondable (Prostemmiulus adisi n. sp.) (Myriapoda: Diplopoda: Stemmiulida). Amazoniana, 8 (3), 375 - 387." type="journal article" year="1984">Mauriés 1984</bibRefCitation>
;
<bibRefCitation id="A02D83D8203DFF8FFEC766F5FD8AFDB4" author="Enghoff" box="[330,551,511,536]" pageId="4" pageNumber="550" refString="Enghoff, H., Dohle, W. &amp; Blower, J. G. (1993) Anamorphosis in millipedes (Diplopoda) - the present state of knowledge with some developmental and phylogenetic considerations. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 109, 103 - 234. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1111 / j. 1096 - 3642.1993. tb 00305. x" type="journal article" year="1993">
Enghoff
<emphasis id="F6C8223B203DFF8FFE21650BFE70FDB4" box="[428,477,512,536]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="550">et al</emphasis>
. 1993
</bibRefCitation>
).
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
</treatment>
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