Otostigmus therezopolis Chamberlin, 1944

Chagas-Júnior, Amazonas, 2012, The centipede genus Otostigmus Porat in Brazil: Description of three new species from the Atlantic Forest; a summary and an identification key to the Brazilian species of this genus (Chilopoda, Scolopendromorpha, Scolopendridae, Otostigminae), Zootaxa 3280, pp. 1-28 : 25

Otostigmus therezopolis Chamberlin, 1944

Type locality. Teresópolis, state of Rio de Janeiro.

Brazilian published records. None.

New records. None.

Remarks. This species is known only from its type series (two specimens). Although the type locality has been well surveyed for a long time and is a historical site visited by several European naturalists during the nineteenth century and by the AracnoLab over the last ten years, O. therezopolis has not been recorded since. Otostigmus therezopolis is very close to O. tibialis , but differs from the latter in the number of articles in the antennae and the distribution of tarsal spurs on the legs. The antennae of O. therezoplois have 18 (right) and 19 articles (left) and there are two tarsal spurs on legs 1 to 16 ( Chamberlin, 1944). In O. tibialis the antennae have 17 articles and there are two tarsal spurs in the first three pairs of legs, but Bücherl (1943) pointed out that it is common to find specimens of O. tibialis with 18 antennal articles. Despite the great similarity between O. therezopolis and a female of O. tibialis , I prefer to keep O. therezopolis as distinct because the species was not illustrated and the type material was not examined.