Leptherpum Attems 1931
Authors/Creators
- 1. Laboratório de Coleções Zoológicas, Instituto Butantan. Avenida Vital Brasil 1500, 05503 - 090 São Paulo, SP, Brazil. & Programa de Pós-graduação em Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo. Rua do Matão 101, 05508 - 090 São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
- 2. Department of Recent Invertebrates, Virginia Museum of Natural History. 21 Starling Avenue, Martinsville, Virginia, USA.
- 3. Laboratório de Sistemática e Ecologia de Invertebrados do Solo, Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia.
- 4. Laboratório de Coleções Zoológicas, Instituto Butantan. Avenida Vital Brasil 1500, 05503 - 090 São Paulo, SP, Brazil.
Description
Leptherpum Attems, 1931: 48. Type species: Leptodesmus carinovatus Attems, 1898, by original designation; Attems, 1938: 90; Schubart, 1958: 205; Jeekel, 1963: 119; Hoffman, 1966: 542; Jeekel, 1971: 269; Hoffman, 1978: 550; Hoffman, 1980: 153; Hoffman, 1997: 6; Golovatch and Hoffman, 2004: 50; Hoffman, 2005: 69.
Diagnosis. Males of Leptherpum differ from those of other Chondrodesmini by the following combination of characters: gonopodal prefemoral process large, concave, with an elongated and slender secondary process (Figs 15, 17); solenomere falcate and not branching (Figs 15–18, 26–28, 32–34, 38–40, 44–46); presence of marginal projections on the caudal edge of the paranota (= posterior margin of paranota with acute projections; Figs 11, 23–25, 35–37, 41–43), except in L. capiberibei.
Taxonomic notes. Leptherpum species have characteristically shaped paranota, related to the size and position of the peritrematic swelling (Jeekel 1963, Hoffman 1966). The large, prominent marginal projection (or “tooth”) of the caudal edge of the paranota forms a caudolateral angle by displacing the peritremata to an anterior position (Jeekel 1963: fig. 33, Hoffman 1966: fig. 3). In L. loomisi, the peritremata are elongated, extending directly caudad, forming a small and weakly developed projection along the caudolateral corner of the paranota, as typical for Chelodesmidae (Jeekel 1963: fig. 34).
Distribution. Widespread in the Amazon Rainforest region of Brazil, Guyana, French Guiana, Suriname, and Venezuela.
Composition. Now composed of twelve species: Leptherpum battirolai sp. nov.; Leptherpum buenovillegasi sp. nov.; Leptherpum californicum (Daday, 1891); Leptherpum capiberibei Golovatch and Hoffman, 2004; Leptherpum carinovatum (Attems, 1898); Leptherpum geijskesi Jeekel, 1963; Leptherpum huebneri Attems, 1901; Leptherpum jeekeli Hoffman, 1966; Leptherpum loomisi Jeekel, 1963; Leptherpum schomburgkii (Erichson, 1848); Leptherpum staheli Jeekel, 1950; Leptherpum tialaura sp. nov.
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Attems
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Polydesmida
- Family
- Chelodesmidae
- Genus
- Leptherpum
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Taxonomic concept label
- Leptherpum Attems, 1931 sec. Bouzan, Means, Ivanov, Almeida, Brescovit & Iniesta, 2022
References
- Attems CG (1931) Die Familie Leptodesmidae und andere Polydesmiden. Zoologica Stuttgart (79): 1 - 150.
- Attems CG (1898) System der Polydesmiden. I. Theil. Denkschriften der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Wien, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Classe 67: 221 - 482
- Attems CG (1938) Myriapoda 3. Polydesmoidea II. Fam. Leptodesmidae, Platyrhachidae, Oxydesmidae, Gomphodesmidae. Das Tierreich 69: 1 - 487.
- Schubart O (1958) Sobre alguns Diplopoda de Mato Grosso e Goias, Brasil e a familia Spirostreptidae. Arquivos do Museu Nacional 46: 203 - 252.
- Jeekel CAW (1963) Diplopoda of Guiana (1 - 5). Studies on the Fauna of Suriname and Other Guyanas. Zoologisch Museum, Amsterdam, 157 pp.
- Hoffman RL (1966) Polydesmoid Diplopoda from the Pacaraima Mountains. Journal of Zoology 148 (4): 540 - 553.
- Jeekel CAW (1971) Nomenclator generum et familiarum Diplopodorum: A list of the genus and family-group names in the Class Diplopoda from the 10 th edition of Linnaeus, 1758, to the end of 1957. Monografieen van de Nederlandse Entomologische Vereniging 5: 1 - 412.
- Hoffman RL (1978) Chelodesmid studies. XI. A new genus and species from Venezuela, referable to the new tribe Chondrodesmini. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 85 (3): 543 - 551.
- Hoffman RL (1980) Classification of the Diplopoda. Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, Geneve, 237 pp.
- Hoffman RL (1997) Chelodesmid studies XXVI. A new genus for Leptodesmus kalobatus Brolemann, 1919 and notes on the related genus Iphyria (Polydesmida, Chelodesmidae, Chondrodesmini). Myriapodologica 5 (1): 1 - 7.
- Golovatch SI, Hoffman RL (2004) On two new chelodesmid millipedes from Amapa, Brazil (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Chelodesmidae). Amazoniana 18 (1 - 2): 49 - 55.
- Hoffman RL (2005) The taxonomic position of Antrogonodesmus (Polydesmida: Chelodesmidae: Chondrodesmini). Myriapodologica 8 (7): 67 - 74.
- Daday J (1891) A heidelbergi egyetem zoologiai gyujtemenyenek idegenfoldi Myriapodai (Myriapoda extranea Collectionis zoologicae Universitatis Heidelbergensis). Termeszetrajzi Fuzetek 14 (3 / 4): 135 - 154.
- Attems CG (1901) Neue Polydesmiden des Hamburger Museums. Mitteilungen aus dem Naturhistorischen Museum in Hamburg 18 (2): 83 - 107.
- Erichson WF (1848) Versuch einer Fauna und Flora von British-Guiana. Myriapoda 3: 547 - 1262.
- Jeekel CAW (1950) On some polydesmoid millipeds from Surinam. Entomologische Berichten 13 (299): 70 - 76.