Poecilocricus lina Rodrigues & Rodrigues, 2022

Rodrigues, Patrícia Elesbão Silva, Campos, Luiz Alexandre & Rodrigues, Everton Nei Lopes, 2022, Cladistic analysis and taxonomic revision of the genus Poecilocricus Schubart, 1962 (Diplopoda, Spirobolida, Rhinocricidae), Organisms Diversity & Evolution (New York, N. Y.) 22 (1), pp. 141-160 : 154-157

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.1007/s13127-021-00527-7
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03C987AF-FFFB-FFD5-FCD2-F90CFD0236BF
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Poecilocricus lina Rodrigues & Rodrigues
status	sp. nov.

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Poecilocricus lina Rodrigues & Rodrigues sp. nov.

( Figs. 11d–f View Fig , 12 View Fig , and 13).

Type material. Male holotype from Brazil, Bahia, Carinhanha ( cave Bem Bom ) (35°03′04″ W, 06°36′05″ S), 28.XI.2015, M. E Bichuette et al. leg., deposited in ( LES GoogleMaps

0021899). Paratypes: one female same data as the holotype ( LES 0021899 About LES ) GoogleMaps .

Etymology. The specific name honors the biologist Maria Elina Bichuette (UFSCar), nickname “Lina”, collector of the type specimen.

Diagnosis. Poecilocricus lina sp. nov. resembles Poecilocricus vazante sp. nov. by the shape of sternite of anterior gonopod, which is triangular and distally pointed; general coloration and by the shape of distal portion of telopodite of the posterior gonopod, and resembles Poecilocricus singularis by the shape of processes of leg pairs 4–7, but differs from P. singularis by the lobule of telopodite of anterior gonopod, which is rounded and little projected laterally ( Figs. 11d, e View Fig , and 12e, f View Fig ); femoral base of telopodite of the posterior gonopod without saw-shaped projections ( Fig. 11f View Fig and Fig. 12d View Fig ) and by the shape of process of leg pair 3 which has the apex rounded.

Description. Male holotype ( Fig. 12a–c View Fig ) with 54p + 1aT. Total length 96.0 mm. Total width 7.9 mm. Coloration in alcohol: general coloration yellowish brown. Antennae with some setae and numerous apical sensory cones in the last antennomere. Prozonites gray; metazonites with yellowish posterior margins. Labrum yellowish brown. Legs and telson yellowish brown. Telson with epiproct not surpassing the paraprocts. Opening of paraprocts projected ( Fig. 12c View Fig ). Hypoproct gray and margin yellowish and of subtriangular shape. Ozopores beginning at the sixth ring. Scobinae very elongated. Leg pairs 3–7 of male ( Fig. 12b View Fig ). Process of coxae of leg pair 3 different from the other species of the genus, it is longer than wide with a rounded apex and with thin short setae. Process of coxae of leg pairs 4–7 like Poecilocricus singularis . Gonopods ( Figs. 11d–f View Fig and 12d–f View Fig ). Anterior gonopod wider than long, with a triangular sternite, medially with a protuberance and apically projected; coxite wide and rounded. In the anterior view there are similar round bulges at both sides. Telopodite longer than coxite and sternite, with a rounded lobe and little projected laterally. Telopodite of the posterior gonopod trifurcated. The external branch is bifurcated in two short lamellated branches, the inner branch is shortened. Solenomere lanceolated.