Notiphilides maximiliani (Humbert & Saussure, 1870)

Calvanese, Victor C. & Brescovit, Antonio D., 2017, A new species of Notiphilides from Amazonia, with a redescription of N. grandis (Chilopoda, Geophilomorpha, Oryidae), Zootaxa 4232 (1), pp. 1-20 : 3-4

Notiphilides maximiliani (Humbert & Saussure, 1870)

Figure 1

Notiphilus maximiliani Humbert & Saussure, 1870: 205 (female holotype from Campeche, Mexico, deposited in NHMW 184 ). Notiphilides maximiliani: Latzel, 1880: 20 .

Diagnosis. Notiphilides maximiliani differs from other species of Notiphilides by the following combination of characteristics: body with 87̄105 leg-bearing segments in females and 85̄ 89 in males; tergites without sulcus ( Fig. 1 B, D), posterior paratergites divided ( Fig. 1 D), intermediate tergite of the postpedal segment with homogenous color ( Fig. 1 D), and ultimate legs without tubercle in tarsus ( Attems 1929; Chamberlin 1950; Crabill 1960; Brölemann 1905).

Note. DR and VR presence cannot be analyzed in the examined pictures, and its description is little accurate in the consulted literature.

Distribution. Mexico: Campeche; Yucatan. Costa Rica: San José: San Mateo. Antilles: Windward Island: Grenada. Trinidad. Colombia: Fundación: Cafetal Camelia. Ecuador. Guatemala. Peru: Campana; Oxapampa: Monson Valley. Tingo Maria. Venezuela: Rancho Grande: Miranda.

Figures

FIGURE 1. Notiphilides maximiliani (Humbert & Saussure). Female holotype (NHMW 184): A, anterior part of body, ventral; B, same, latero-dorsal; C, terminal part of body, ventral; D, same, dorsal. Scale bars: 1.5 (A, C – D), 2.5 (B). Photos by Dr. Nesrine Akkari.