Notiphilides Latzel, 1880

Calvanese, Victor C. & Brescovit, Antonio D., 2017, A new species of Notiphilides from Amazonia, with a redescription of N. grandis (Chilopoda, Geophilomorpha, Oryidae), Zootaxa 4232 (1), pp. 1-20 : 2-3

Genus Notiphilides Latzel, 1880

Type species: Notiphilus maximiliani Humbert & Saussure, 1870 by monotypy.

Diagnosis. Species of the genus Notiphilides can be distinguished from other Oryidae by the following combination of characters: last pair of legs with 6 segments ( Figs 1 C–D, 2E–F, 7E–F, 9E–F), 1̄3 rows of paratergites along the body ( Figs 6 A–B, 13A–B) and tergites with two shallow pits in the anterior portion, slightly offset to the side ( Figs 6 C, 13C).

Composition. Five species:

Notiphilides maximiliani (Humbert & Saussure, 1870) N. saussurei Sseliwanoff, 1881

N. erga Chamberlin, 1950

N. grandis Brölemann, 1905

N. amazonica sp. n.

Figures

FIGURE 1. Notiphilides maximiliani (Humbert & Saussure). Female holotype (NHMW 184): A, anterior part of body, ventral; B, same, latero-dorsal; C, terminal part of body, ventral; D, same, dorsal. Scale bars: 1.5 (A, C – D), 2.5 (B). Photos by Dr. Nesrine Akkari.

FIGURE 6. Notiphilides grandis (Brölemann). Female paratype (IBSP 1160): A, anterior part of body, lateral; B, pleural region of body (LXXIV, LXXV, LXXVI segments); C, tergite of the LXXV segment; D, sternite of LXXV segment, in green, the pore-field distribution; D 1, structures present in the pores-field; D 2, structure identified in the sternum; E, terminal part of body, ventral; F, tarsus of the right last leg, lateral. Abbreviations: Pte, paratergite row; Pt, shallow pits; Me, membrane between prescutellum and stigmatopleurite. Scale bars: 0.005 (D 2), 0.03 (D 1), 0.15 (F), 1.5 (E), 0.5 (D), 0.6 (C), 0.8 (B), 1 (A).