Odontopeltis proxima Silvestri, 1895

Pena-Barbosa, João P. P., Sierwald, Petra & Brescovit, Antonio D., 2013, On the largest chelodesmid millipedes: taxonomic review and cladistic analysis of the genus Odontopeltis Pocock, 1894 (Diplopoda; Polydesmida; Chelodesmidae), Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 169 (4), pp. 737-764 : 756

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.1111/zoj.12086
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6985395
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scientific name	Odontopeltis proxima Silvestri, 1895
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Odontopeltis proxima Silvestri, 1895 View in CoL ,

see Silvestri, 1895b: 5, fig. 6.

Holotype male, from Argentina, deposited at MRSN, examined.

Note: the gonopod of the specimen possesses a well-developed ventrally projecting prefemoral process, which covers the acropodite. Silvestri’s illustration of the gonopod is accurate. This feature excludes the specimen from the genus Odontopeltis , but identifies the specimen as a member of the family Chelodesmidae . Silvestri’s drawing also indicates torsion of the acropodite, which was not confirmed by our examination of the type specimen.