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Leptherpum jeekeli Hoffman 1966

  • 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 jeekeli Hoffman, 1966

Fig. 53

Leptherpum jeekeli Hoffman, 1966: 543, figs 1, 2 (male holotype from Pacaraima Mountains (5°00’00.4”N; 60°59’54.2”W), British Guiana, 9.xi.1932, D. Vesey-Fitzgerald leg., deposited at BMNH, not examined).

Distribution. Guyana.

Notes

Published as part of Bouzan, Rodrigo S., Means, Jackson C., Ivanov, Kaloyan, Almeida, Thaís Melo de, Brescovit, Antonio Domingos & Iniesta, Luiz Felipe M., 2022, Three new species of the Amazonian millipede genus Leptherpum (Polydesmida: Chelodesmidae), pp. 1-18 in Zoologia (e 22020) (e 22020) 39 on page 4, DOI: 10.1590/S1984-4689.v39.e22020, http://zenodo.org/record/13173864

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
BMNH
Event date
1932-11-09
Verbatim event date
1932-11-09
Scientific name authorship
Hoffman
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Polydesmida
Family
Chelodesmidae
Genus
Leptherpum
Species
jeekeli
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype
Taxonomic concept label
Leptherpum jeekeli Hoffman, 1966 sec. Bouzan, Means, Ivanov, Almeida, Brescovit & Iniesta, 2022

References

  • Hoffman RL (1966) Polydesmoid Diplopoda from the Pacaraima Mountains. Journal of Zoology 148 (4): 540 - 553.