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Parajulus

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Description

" Parajulus " viganus Chamberlin, 1952

Figs. 37–40

Paraiulus viganus Chamberlin, 1952:19, figs. 17–19. Loomis, 1968a:76.

Type specimens. ɗ holotype and 1ɗ & 2 juvenile paratypes (FMNH) collected by H. Dybas, 30 June 1941, at Las Vigas, Veracruz, Mexico.

Diagnosis. Anterior gonopod coxal processes vaguely subtriangular, more separated distad, broad basally and overlapping bases of telopodites, narrowing abruptly at midlengths and tapering distad, medial concavities shallow but distinct. Anterior branch of posterior gonopod moderately long, angling subventrad basally, then bending abruptly subanteriad; caudal process curving ventrad over solenomere then dorsad.

Distribution. Known from the type locality and the following new site.

MEXICO: Hidalgo, E. Cuieo, ɗ, 27 June 1943, collector's name illegible (NMNH) New State Record.

Remarks. The label in the type vial says "about 35 millipedes," but only those above are present now. " Parajulus " viganus was omitted from Hoffman (1999) and Bueno-Villegas et al. (2004).

Notes

Published as part of 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, pp. 1-37 in Zootaxa 1893 on page 22, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.184362

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Biodiversity

Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Julida
Family
Parajulidae
Genus
Parajulus
Taxon rank
genus

References

  • Chamberlin, R. V. (1952) Further records and descriptions of American millipeds. Great Basin Naturalist, 12 (1 - 4), 13 - 34.
  • Loomis, H. F. (1968 a) A checklist of the millipeds of Mexico and Central America. Bulletin of the United States National Museum, 266, 1 - 137
  • Hoffman, R. L. (1999) Checklist of the millipeds of North and Middle America. Virginia Museum of Natural History Special Publication Number 8, 1 - 584.
  • Bueno-Villegas, J., Sierwald, P., and Bond, J. E. (2004) Diplopoda. pp. 569 - 599, in B. J. Llorente, J. J. Morrone, O. Yanez, and I. Vargas (eds.), Biodiversidad, Taxonomia y Biogeografia de Artropodos de Mexico: Hacia una sintesis de su conocimiento. IV. UNAM, Mexico.