Chaleponcus hereronius (Attems, 1922)

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Chaleponcus hereronius (Attems, 1922)

Odontopyge hereronia: Attems 1922: 101–103 , figs 2a–d; 1928: 391.

Chaleponcus hereronius: Kraus 1960: 25 ; Schubart 1966: 123; Hamer 1998: 58.

Diagnosis: Gonopod telocoxite broadly widened, with apical region folded as a “lappet” (Attems 1928), which forms a median triangular process apically.A low triangular process on lateral margin of telocoxite.

Description:

Size: Width 4.2–4.5 mm; 60 segments.

Colour: In life black, antenna yellow-brown, darkening distally, legs yellow-brown.

Head: 5 or 6 supralabral pits, epicranial and interocular suture distinct.

Collum: Only very slightly anteriorly projected and with 1–2 complete folds.

Paraprocts: With distinct dorsal spines.

Legs: All legs with pads.

Gonopods: As in diagnosis.

Material examined: NAMIBIA: 1♂ 1♀ Usakos [22°00'11"S 15°34'59"E, 866 m], 1911, Michaelsen ( NHMW 2622 ) .

Distribution: The species is only known from the type locality, Usakos, which is close to Swakopmund in the Erongo region ( Fig. 75).

Remark: Unfortunately, the gonopods were prepared in a manner that makes it impossible to redraw them to show the diagnostic characters.