Gangugia simplex Schubart, 1958

Figures 13, 18

Gangugia tapirapensis simplex Schubart, 1958: 216, fig. 14. Male holotype and two males paratypes from Aragarças (15°53’52”S, 52°15’02”W), Goiás, Brazil, X.1952 − X.1953, H. Sick coll., deposited in MZSP 1077 ; Paratypes: with same data, deposited in MZSP 1074 and 1075, examined .

Gangugia simplex:-- Hoffman, 1976: 179, figs 11−13, elevated to species rank; Golovatch, Hoffman, Adis, Marques, Raizer, Silva, Ribeiro, Silva and Pinheiro, 2005: 277.

Additional material. BRAZIL: Goiás: Jataí (-10.471803°; -50.515290°), Fazenda Nova Orlândia, 2♂ and 1♀, I.1964, Exped. Dep. Zool. coll. (VMNH 110614) .

Diagnosis. Adult males differ from all other species of the genus by the combination of the following characters: presence of indentations in the prefemoral process (Fig. 13D) and the prefemoral process not completely involving the solenomere, in ectal view (Fig. 13E–F).

Description. Male (Holotype, MZSP 1077). Coloration (long-preserved in 70% ethanol): Head and antennae ocher yellowish. Body ocher and with the border of the paranota and posterior margin of the metaterga slightly whitened (Figs 13A–C). Legs ochre yellowish. Gonopod aperture on seventh body ring broken. Telson ocher. Total length: 65.67. Total width: 9.43. Collum, length 2.55, width 8.75. Antennomere lengths (1>7): 0.74; 2.00; 1.78; 1.47; 1.36; 1.47; 0.30. Podomeres lengths (1>7): 1.08; 1.44; 2.61; 1.24; 1.50; 1.48; 0.55. Gonopod aperture, length 1.80, width 3.73. Telson, length 0.93. Gonopod: length 2.98, width 2.39. Gonocoxae: length 1.17, width 1.09. Telopodite: length 2.83, width 1.34. Prefemoral process long (smaller than the solenomere), narrow and curved, terminal portion presenting several indentations (Fig. 13D). Long, narrow and curved solenomere (Figs 13E–F). Cingulum in medial position (Fig. 13F). Apex of the solenomere sickle-shaped (Fig. 13F).

Female (VMNH 110614). See Hoffman (1976): 179, for more details.

Distribution. Goiás, Brazil (Fig. 18).