Camptomorpha atypha (Chamberlin, 1941)

Fig. 2.

Ptyxesmus atyphus Chamberlin, 1941: 489, figs 101 and 102. HolotYpe ♂, AMNH, but presentlY misplaced [Hoffman, in litt.].

BRIEF DESCRIPTIVE NOTES (after Chamberlin [1941]). Width 5.0 mm. Coloration dark olive dorsally, paraterga in part more brownish, legs and antennae dark brown. Collum acutely narrowed on each side (Fig. 2A). Paraterga broadly and regularly rounded, rimmed throughout; caudal corners drawn past rear tergal margins only in caudal body third. Epiproct simple, short and finger-shaped. ♂ legs ventrallY with prefemora bearing semi-circular bulges distally and with tibiae carrying chelae apically.

Gonopods (Fig. 2B, C) with both prefemoral process (PfP) and acropodite (A) subequal in length, A being relatively simple and leaf-shaped, with several grooves at external margin, apex directed basally; PfP armed and broader, with an irregular internal margin and a small ascending process near middle; solenomere (sl) simple.

DISTRIBUTION. Peru, Loreto Dept., Iquitos, 3°44′56.83″S 73°15′13.79″W [Chamberlin, 1941] .

Hoffman [in litt.] provided a sketch of a gonopod of this species from a near-topotype, reproduced here in Fig. 2C. He also recorded C. atypha from near Tabatinga, Brazil, as well as Rio Yanayacu near Iquitos and Rio Marañon ca 2 km above Nauta, Peru.