Ityphilus saucius Pereira, Foddai & Minelli, 2000

Pereira, Luis Alberto, 2010, First Record Of A Ballophilid Centipede From French Guiana With A Description Of Ityphilus Betschi Sp. Nov. (Myriapoda: Chilopoda: Geophilomorpha), Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia 50 (42), pp. 643-665 : 662-663

Ityphilus saucius Pereira, Foddai & Minelli, 2000

( Figs. 61-63 )

Ityphilus saucius Pereira, Foddai & Minelli, 2000:8 , 9; Foddai et al., 2000:155; Foddai et al., 2002:473; Foddai et al., 2004:276; Bonato et al., 2007:4.

Remarks: The following complementary information can be given for the female holotype from the figures illustrating the original description: width of cephalic plate, 0.39 mm; width of forcipular coxosternite, 0.36 mm. Several ratios, relating to antennal articles; forcipular segment; ultimate legs; tergite and sternite of the ultimate leg-bearing segment, as in Table 1.

In the original description of I. saucius the species was compared with I. demoraisi and I. perrieri (both sharing with it, the characteristic of having the internal edge of the forcipular tarsungulum serrate); it was also compared with Ityphilus lilacinus Cook, 1899 (from Lesser and Greater Antilles, and Florida) and Cerethmus naiquatanus Chamberlin, 1941 (from Venezuela), but these latter species have the internal side of the forcipular tarsungulum smooth.

Type locality: Brazil: Amazonas 02°34’S, 60°06’W .

Distribution: Only known from the type locality.

Figures

FIGURES 60‑63: (60): Ityphilus perrieri (Brölemann, 1909), (male lectotype; Brazil:Haut-Carsevène):Detail of left forcipular tarsungulum, ventral. (After Pereira et al., 1994). (61-63): Ityphilus saucius Pereira, Foddai & Minelli, 2000, (female holotype; BRAZIL: Amazonas: 02°34’S, 60°06’W): (61) Left antenna, ventral; (62) Forcipular segment, ventral (a: chitin-line); (63) Detail of duct and calyx of poison gland in right forcipular telopodite, ventral. (After Pereira et al., 2000). Scale bars: 0.05 mm (60); 0.1 mm (63); 0.2 mm (62); 0.3 mm (61).