Pseudoporatia perplexa Golovatch, 1999

M., Luiz F., Iniesta, Bouzan, Rodrigo S., R., Claudio A., Souza, Zampaulo, Robson A., Cizauskas, Igor & Brescovit, Antonio D., 2023, Additions to the millipede fauna of an Amazonian ferruginous landscape: a new species of Pseudoporatia Golovatch, 1999 widespread in rock outcrops (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Pyrgodesmidae), Zoosystema 45 (16), pp. 463-498 : 466-468

Pseudoporatia perplexa Golovatch, 1999

Pseudoporatia perplexa Golovatch, 1999: 229 , figs 30-35.

TYPE MATERIAL. — Holotype. Brazil • ♂; Reserva Florestal Adolpho Ducke ; primary tropical rainforest on terra firme, Manaus, Amazonas; Kempson extraction (K14 RD4); 2°57’48.0”S, 59°55’21.4”W; 8.XII.1982; J. Adis coll.; INPA (examined by photographs). Paratypes. Brazil • 2 ♂, 3 ♀ and 1 juvenile; same data as holotype; INPA • 1 ♀; same data as holotype; ZMUM • 1 ♂, 1 ♀; K10 RD4; INPA • 1 ♂ and 1 ♀; K24 RD9; 10. V.1983; J. Adis coll.; INPA .

DIAGNOSIS. — Pseudoporatia perplexa can be distinguished from Pseudoporatia kananciue Iniesta, Bouzan, Souza & Brescovit , n. sp. by adults having 20 body rings (vs 19 rings in P. kananciue Iniesta, Bouzan, Souza & Brescovit , n. sp.); collum with 5 + 5 lobulations deeply incised ( Golovatch 1999: fig. 30) (vs collum with 6 + 6 lobulations); porosteles on second lobe of paraterga ( Golovatch 1999: fig. 31) (vs porosteles on third lobe). Gonopods with telopodites largely concealed inside a prominent gonocoel ( Golovatch 1999: fig. 33) (vs telopodites partially exposed from gonocoel); prefemoral region without a broad lamella covering solenomere anteriorly; solenomere with a fringe near the subterminal opening of the seminal groove, but without distal bifid branchlet; femoral process with a distally fringed branchlet and a hyaline branchlet ( Golovatch 1999: figs 33-35).

DISTRIBUTION. — Known only from the type locality.