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Odontopeltis aleijadinho Pena-Barbosa & Sierwald & Brescovit 2013, SP. NOV.

Description

ODONTOPELTIS ALEIJADINHO SP. NOV.

FIGURES 80–82, 87

Type material: Male holotype from Parque Estadual do Rio Doce, Timóteo (19°34′58′′S, 38°38′W), Minas Gerais, Brazil, 17−21.xi.2008, I. S. Oliveira coll., deposited in IBSP, catalog number 1542.

Paratype: One male (IBSP 2853) and one female (IBSP 3630) from the same locality.

Etymology: The species epithet is a noun in apposition, a patronym in honour of Antônio Francisco Lisboa, nickname Aleijadinho, one of the most important artists of the Baroque, and who came from Minas Gerais.

Diagnosis: Males of Odontopeltis aleijadinho differ from other species of the genus by the rounded tip of process B. In both Odontopeltis aleijadinho and Odontopeltis anchisteus process A possesses a fold: in Odontopeltis anchisteus this fold is positioned api- cally, whereas in Odontopeltis aleijadinho the fold is at the base (Figs 80, 82). Odontopeltis tiradentes and Odontopeltis aleijadinho both possess a subtriangular process A with small apical undulations.

Description: Male (holotype, IBSP 1542): Head and body black. Paranota tip and telson yellow. Legs black. Paranotal teeth formula: 0-0-0-0-2-2-3-3-3-3-5-3-3-3-4- 3-3-1-1. Total length 86. Collum 4 long, 13 wide. Antenna: 2.3, 2.0, 2.0, 2.0, 2.5. Genital opening 1.9 long, 3.3 wide. Telson 1.8. Coxae of gonopods with a spiniform process. Prefemoral region 3 × longer than femoral region. Macrobristles on an inclined line with the distance between them less than half the length of the bristle itself. Process A without apical process, only with small ripples (ventral view, Fig. 81). Median projection of the solenomere well developed, but not surpassing tip of solenomere (Fig. 81).

Female (paratype, IBSP 3630): Coloration as in male. Paranotal teeth formula: 0-0-0-0-2-2-3-2-3-3-2- 3-3-2-3-3-2-1-1. Total length 87. Collum 5 long, 12 wide. Antenna: 2.2, 2.0, 2.0, 1.9, 1.9. Telson 1.8.

Distribution: Know only from the type locality.

Notes

Published as part of Pena-Barbosa, João P. P., Sierwald, Petra & Brescovit, Antonio D., 2013, On the largest chelodesmid millipedes: taxonomic review and cladistic analysis of the genus Odontopeltis Pocock, 1894 (Diplopoda; Polydesmida; Chelodesmidae), pp. 737-764 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 169 (4) on pages 760-761, DOI: 10.1111/zoj.12086, http://zenodo.org/record/5291981

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Biodiversity

Collection code
IBSP
Material sample ID
1542 , IBSP 2853, IBSP 3630
Event date
2008-11-17
Verbatim event date
2008-11-17/21
Scientific name authorship
Pena-Barbosa & Sierwald & Brescovit
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Polydesmida
Family
Chelodesmidae
Genus
Odontopeltis
Species
aleijadinho
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic status
sp. nov.
Type status
holotype , paratype
Taxonomic concept label
Odontopeltis aleijadinho Pena-Barbosa, Sierwald & Brescovit, 2013