Parajulus

Shelley, Rowland M., 2008, Way Down South: The milliped family Parajulidae (Julida: Parajulini) in Mexico and Central America; first records from El Salvador and the Baja California Peninsula, Zootaxa 1893, pp. 1-37 : 32-35

" Parajulus " aztecus Pocock, 1903

Figs. 77–82

Paraiulus aztecus Pocock, 1903:56 –57, pl. 5, figs. 10, 10a–b. Loomis, 1968a:75. Hoffman, 1999:169. Bueno-Villegas et al., 2004:589.

Type specimens. ɗ lectotype and 4ɗ, 7Ψ, and ca. 15 juvenile paralectotypes ( BMNH) collected by H. H. Smith on an unknown date at Omilteme, Guerrero, Mexico; another juvenile paralectotype ( BMNH) taken on an unknown date by an unknown collector at Chilpancingo, Guerrero. Omilteme is a settlement in the Sierra Madre del Sur located 16 km (10 mi) WSW Chilpancingo; coordinates are 17° 30' N, 99° 40' W ( Selander & Vaurie 1962). The lectotype was selected and labeled on an unknown date by N. B. Causey, and I now formalize this assignment.

Potential diagnostic features. The long, diverging, subrectangular ag coxal processes, the relatively short processes of the complex pgs, and the narrow, curved, apically hirsute branch (hb) of the latter.

Habitat. The types were collected at 2,400 m (8,000 ft) elevation.

Distribution. The juvenile paralectotype from Chilpancingo is assigned to " P." aztecus because of its proximity to Omilteme, the only definite locality for the species; however, a different species may occur there. The following sample is also available from this city and may be referrable to " P." aztecus .

MEXICO: Guerrero, Chilpancingo, juv., 13 December 1951, C. M. Bogert (NMNH).

Figures

FIGURES 77 – 82. " Parajulus " aztecus. 77, anterior gonopods of lectotype, anterior view. 78, left posterior gonopod of the same, submedial view. 79, the same, sublateral view. 80, the same, caudal view. 81, cyphopods of Ψ paralectotype, caudal view. 82, right cyphopod of the same, anterior view. hb, apically hirsute branch; other abbreviations as in figs. 3 and 4 – 12. Scale line = 1.00 mm for figs. 77 and 81 – 82, 0.85 mm for fig. 78, 1.14 mm for fig. 79, 3.57 mm for fig. 80.