Odontopeltis clarazianus

Pena-Barbosa, João P. P., Sierwald, Petra & Brescovit, Antonio D., 2013, On the largest chelodesmid millipedes: taxonomic review and cladistic analysis of the genus Odontopeltis Pocock, 1894 (Diplopoda; Polydesmida; Chelodesmidae), Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 169 (4), pp. 737-764 : 757-758

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https://doi.org/ 10.1111/zoj.12086

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6985513

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Odontopeltis clarazianus
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ODONTOPELTIS CLARAZIANUS ( HUMBERT & DESAUSSURE, 1869) View in CoL

FIGURES 65–67 View Figures 65–70 , 86 View Figures 86, 87

Polydesmus (Odontotropis) clarazianus Humbert & deSaussure, 1869: 152 .

Female holotype from La Plata, Argentina, deposited in MHNG, examined; deSaussure & Humbert, 1872 (description of male).

Odontotropis clarazianus View in CoL : – Attems, 1898: 408.

Storthotropis clarazianus View in CoL : – Attems, 1938: 200 (comb. nov.), Schubart, 1954: 141.

Odontopeltis clarazianus View in CoL : – Hoffman, 1981a: 57, figs 1–3, 7, 9 (comb. nov.).

Note: this species was described based on a female ( Humbert & deSaussure, 1869) from La Plata, Argentina. DeSaussure & Humbert (1872) mentioned a male, but neither designated this male as a type nor presented a drawing. Brölemann (1900) published two drawings of a male under the name Odontopeltis clarazianus based on specimens collected by Emílio Goeldi in Serra dos Órgãos, Rio de Janeiro (specimen lost, MNHN, J-.J. Geoffroy, unpubl. data). Schubart (1949: 20, figs 1, 2) presented a drawing of a male identified by him as Odontopeltis clarazianus from Matipó, Minas Gerais, which he considered to be conspecific with the specimens illustrated by Brölemann (1900). However, Hoffman (1981a) examined the female holotype of Odontopeltis clarazianus from La Plata and concluded that the male discussed by deSaussure & Humbert (1872) is conspecific with the female type specimen, but not conspecific with the males described by Brölemann (1900) and described and figured by Schubart (1949). Based on similarities of the body between the female type specimen and male specimens, Hoffman selected a new male specimen as conspecific with the Odontopeltis clarazianus female. Therefore, the male specimens described by Brölemann (1900) and Schubart (1949) are neither conspecific with Odontopeltis clarazianus nor with any other described species of Odontopeltis . They belong to a heretofore undescribed species, described below as a new species: Odontopeltis tiradentes .

Additional material examined: BRAZIL: Rio de Janeiro: Trajano de Morais , Povoado das Almas, (22°03′46′′S, 42°03′57′′W), 1♂, 02.i.2010, P. D. P. Pinheiro col. ( IBSP) GoogleMaps . ARGENTINA: Departamento de Buenos Aires: La Plata , 1♂ ( BMNH) (designated by Hoffman, 1981a: 57) .

Diagnosis: Males of Odontopeltis clarazianus differ from all other species of the genus by the presence of three apical teeth-like projections on process A ( Fig. 66 View Figures 65–70 ).

Redescription: Male (MHNG): Head and body reddish. Paranotal tips yellow. Legs brown. Telson yellow. Paranotal teeth formula: 0-0-0-0-3-5-4-7-5-6-6-3-3-4- 4-3-3-1-1. Total length 98. Collum 5.0 long, 14.0 wide. Antennae damaged. Genital papilla 0.9 high, 0.66 wide. Genital opening 1.0 long, 3.25 wide. Telson 2.5. Gonopods: coxae with distinct spiniform process. Macrobristles in an inclined line with the distance between them equal to their length. Prefemoral region 2.5 × longer than femoral region. Process B is slightly bent in clockwise direction when observed in ventral and mesal view ( Figs 65, 66 View Figures 65–70 ). Process A subrectangular, with three apical teeth-like processes ( Fig. 66 View Figures 65–70 ). Solenomere with a small median projection.

Female (holotype, MHNG): Body colour as in male. Paranotal teeth formula: 0-0-0-0-3-3-2-3-2-3-3-2-2-3- 4-2-2-1-1. Total length 96. Collum 4.7 long, 13.1 wide. Antennae damaged. Telson 2.1. Genitalia as in Odontopeltis giganteus ( Figs 71–73 View Figures 71–73 ).

Distribution: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and La Plata, Argentina.

IBSP

Instituto Biologico de Sao Paulo

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Diplopoda

Order

Polydesmida

Family

Chelodesmidae

Genus

Odontopeltis

Loc

Odontopeltis clarazianus

Pena-Barbosa, João P. P., Sierwald, Petra & Brescovit, Antonio D. 2013
2013
Loc

Odontopeltis clarazianus

Hoffman RL 1981: 57
1981
Loc

Storthotropis clarazianus

Schubart O 1954: 141
Attems CG 1938: 200
1938
Loc

Odontotropis clarazianus

Attems CG 1898: 408
1898
Loc

Polydesmus (Odontotropis) clarazianus

Humbert A & deSaussure HLF 1869: 152
1869
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