Odontopeltis xica, Pena-Barbosa & Sierwald & Brescovit, 2013

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 : 761

ODONTOPELTIS XICA SP. NOV.

FIGURES 83–85 , 87

Type material: Male holotype from Parque Nacional da Serra do Cipó , Santana do Riacho, (19°57′52′′S, 43°24′54′′W), Minas Gerais, Brazil, deposited in IBSP 1562 .

Etymology: The species epithet, a noun in apposition, is a patronym in honour of Francisca da Silva de Oliveira, known as Xica da Silva, a famous slave woman who became extremely rich in Minas Gerais.

Diagnosis: Males of Odontopeltis xica differ from all other species of the genus by the small size of process A ( Fig. 83 ). The tip of process B is curved posteriorly ( Figs 83, 85 ).

Description: Male (Holotype, IBSP 1562): Head, body and legs blackish. Paranota tip and telson yellow. Paranotal teeth formula: 0-0-0-0-2-2-3-2-3-3-2-4-3-2- 3-3-1-0-0. Total length 86. Collum 4 long, 13 wide. Antenna: 2.3, 2.0, 2.0, 2.0, 2.5. Genital opening 1.9 long, 3.3 wide. Telson 1.8. Prefemoral region 3 × longer than femoral region. Macrobristles on the same plane and with distance between them less than half the length of the bristle itself. Coxae of gonopods with a small spiniform process. Process A small and suboval, without apical process. Median process of the solenomere well-developed, projecting apically, not surpassing the tip of the solenomere.

Female: Unknown.

Distribution: Known only from the type locality.

Figures

Figures 80–85. Gonopods of Odontopeltis, left gonopod illustrated. Figures 80–82. Odontopeltis aleijadinho sp. nov. Figure 80. Mesal view. Figure 81. Ventral view. Figure 82. Ectal view. Scale bar = 0.5 mm. Figures 83–85. Odontopeltis xica sp. nov. Figure 83. Mesal view. Figure 84. Ventral view. Figure 85. Ectal view. Scale bar = 0.5 mm.

Figures 86, 87. Distribution map of Odontopeltis species. Figure 86. States: Rio Grande do Sul to Espírito Santo: Odontopeltis anchisteus, Odontopeltis clarazianus, Odontopeltis conspersus, and Odontopeltis giganteus (Espirito Santo). Figure 87. State: Minas Gerais: Odontopeltis tiradentes sp. nov., Odontopeltis donabeja sp. nov., Odontopeltis aleijadinho sp. nov., and Odontopeltis xica sp. nov.