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Dybasia Loomis

Description

Genus Dybasia Loomis

Dybasia Loomis, 1964, p. 100

Loomis (1964) described three species of this Panamanian genus in three separate genera, which I synonymized under Dybasia in 1972. He also established a separate family Dybasiidae for these obvious cleidogonids. Loomis extended the range of the genus into Costa Rica when he described Dybasia interamericana in 1974. The species of Dybasia are small for cleidogonids, about 10–12 mm in length. The gonopods have long anterior sternal extensions which parallel the angiocoxites, and very small colpocoxites. The ninth legs have a long median extension from the coxoprefemur. The Panamanian species have prominent segmental paranota, but these were not described by Loomis (1974) for D. interamericana. Three of the four species are illustrated in my 1972 monograph, and D. interamericana by Loomis (1974). Cleidogona austrina (see above) may also belong in this genus.

Notes

Published as part of Shear, William A., 2013, A new miniature species of the milliped genus Cleidogona from Costa Rica (Diplopoda, Chordeumatida, Cleidogonidae), with a review of Central American Cleidogonidae, pp. 87-93 in Zootaxa 3635 (1) on page 92, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3635.1.9, http://zenodo.org/record/283539

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Biodiversity

Family
Cleidogonidae
Genus
Dybasia
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Chordeumatida
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Loomis
Taxon rank
genus