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. Proceedings of the
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National Museum. 60(8):27, pl. 11, figs. 812.
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,
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. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 38:40.
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: Male
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from
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, Cacao, coll. O.F. Cook,
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(deposited in the
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National Museum, Smithsonian).
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Additional material examined from near
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locality:
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Male from
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, Dept. Izabal, Finca Las Ilusiones (along Highway CA9),
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bearing 220 true N from Puerto Barrios, elev.
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, coll. J. Bond,
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<emphasis id="FAF2EA955F263D5BA34B1D6E7CF6F94E" bold="true" box="[264,449,1642,1668]" pageId="4" pageNumber="5">FIGURES 711.</emphasis>
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, male holotype. 7, lateral view of male anterior segments. 5, posterior segments, male. 9, anterior gonopod, posterior view. 10, anterior gonopod, anterior view. 11, left posterior gonopod. [Scale bar = 1.0 mm (Figs. 911)]
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Male
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: Color of preserved material badly faded, head, antennae, and collum very light yellowish brown (
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). 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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described the coloration of this specimen as “olive black, running into brown” with ferruginous legs.
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Antennae with 4 sensory cones, flattened laterally, incrassate distally. 1010 labral setae, clypeal groove dark and distinct, 26 ocelli. Width 3.77 (collum), 4.43 (midbody), 3.89 (45), 50 ring segments. Distinct scobinae on segments ~746, diminishing in size posteriorly. Tarsi lacking ventral pads. Epiproct short, not extending beyond paraprocts. Anal valves elongate, with dorsal hook (
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). Hypoproct long, triangular with blunt terminal end, not extending beyond paraprocts.
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Anterior gonopod and telopodite of posterior gonopod as illustrated in
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. Sternum narrow distally with distinct ridge along medial aspect (
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), Cx and Tp as in other rhinocricids (
<figureCitation id="50BD2A025F273D5AA3A419D67F19FD24" box="[487,558,724,750]" captionStart="FIGURES 7 11" captionStartId="4.[264,382,1644,1668]" captionTargetBox="[266,1321,815,1617]" captionTargetId="figure@4.[266,1322,1125,1617]" captionTargetPageId="4" captionText="FIGURES 7 11. Oxypyge ferruginipes Chamberlin, 1922, male holotype. 7, lateral view of male anterior segments. 5, posterior segments, male. 9, anterior gonopod, posterior view. 10, anterior gonopod, anterior view. 11, left posterior gonopod. [Scale bar = 1.0 mm (Figs. 9 11)]" httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/168770/files/figure.png" pageId="5" pageNumber="6">Fig. 9</figureCitation>
). Posterior gonopod telopod (Tp,
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) long and spatulate distally with a membranous interior. Seminal canal (Sc) visible, extending from the Cx to the Sm. Seventh segmental ring posteroventrally modified as a postgenital bar to accommodate gonopods. Posterior gonopods
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extending ~2.0 mm from gonopodal cavity.
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<emphasis id="FAF2EA955F273D5AA37B18767CA9FC47" box="[312,414,884,909]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="6">Remarks</emphasis>
:
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separated this species from
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and established
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<emphasis id="FAF2EA955F273D5AA34B189E7C6FFC7F" box="[264,344,924,949]" italics="true" pageId="5" pageNumber="6">Zipyge</emphasis>
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because it had more slender antennae with only four sensory cones. As pointed out by
<bibRefCitation id="AC174B765F273D5AA36E18C67CDBFC14" author="Hoffman" box="[301,492,964,990]" pageId="5" pageNumber="8" refString="Hoffman, R. L. (1974) Studies on spirobolid millipeds. X. commentary on the status of Salpidobolus and some related rhinocricid genera. Revue Suisse de Zoologie, 81, 189 - 203." type="journal article" year="1974">Hoffman (1974)</bibRefCitation>
antennal characters, number of sensory cones in particular, are not “at all useful in the definition of “natural” genera in this family”. The combination of gonopodal and terminal segment morphology support placement of this species in
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.
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