A further contribution to the knowledge of Pectiniunguis minutus (Demange, 1968), a little known dwarf schendylid centipede from western equatorial Africa (Chilopoda: Geophilomorpha)



Título del documento: A further contribution to the knowledge of Pectiniunguis minutus (Demange, 1968), a little known dwarf schendylid centipede from western equatorial Africa (Chilopoda: Geophilomorpha)
Revista: Papeis avulsos de zoologia
Base de datos: PERIÓDICA
Número de sistema: 000417016
ISSN: 0031-1049
Autores: 1
Instituciones: 1Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Museo, La Plata, Buenos Aires. Argentina
Año:
Volumen: 51
Número: 20
Paginación: 307-323
País: Brasil
Idioma: Inglés
Tipo de documento: Monografía
Enfoque: Descriptivo
Resumen en inglés The geophilomorph centipede Pectiniunguis minutus (Demange, 1968), a little known dwarf schendylid from Gabon (Western equatorial Africa), is redescribed and illustrated based on the type material and an additional non-type specimen preserved in the collections of the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris. P. minutus can be easily differentiated from all the other species currently assigned to the genus Pectiniunguis, by the very low number of leg-bearing segments (35 in the males, 37 or 39 in the females) and very small body size (12-16 mm in length). P. minutus is also distinguished by having ventral pore-fields on the anterior region of the body only, this character being shared by a single species of the genus, i.e., P. ascendens Pereira, Minelli & Barbieri, 1994, from the Neotropics (Brazil: State of Amazonas) with which a morphological comparison is given. Comments about other dwarf centipede species belonging to several families of the order Geophilomorpha, are also added
Disciplinas: Biología
Palabras clave: Taxonomía y sistemática,
Artrópodos,
Pectiniunguis minutus,
Geophilomorpha,
Chilopoda,
Africa,
Revisión taxonómica,
Pectiniunguis minutus,
Geophilomorpha,
Chilopoda
Keyword: Arthropods,
Taxonomy and systematics,
Africa,
Taxonomic review
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