Cleidogona tajmulco Chamberlin

Shear, William A., 2013, A new miniature species of the milliped genus Cleidogona from Costa Rica (Diplopoda, Chordeumatida, Cleidogonidae), with a review of Central American Cleidogonidae, Zootaxa 3635 (1), pp. 87-93 : 91

Cleidogona tajmulco Chamberlin

Cleidogona tajmulco Chamberlin, 1952 , p. 15; Shear, 1972, p. 158.

Type and only locality: Volcán Tajmulco , San Marcos Dept., Guatemala.

As with C. punctifer (above), this species was described from a single female, which could not be found in 1972. In the same publication, Chamberlin (1952) described C. mandeli from a male collected at the same place and on the same day as the female holotype of C. tajmulco , but wrote that C. tajmulco was “a larger, more robust form than mandeli ...(Chamberlin 1952)” and gave its length as about 3 mm longer than the latter species. There is ample precedent for syntopy in Méxican and Central American cleidogonids, but the size difference in the two specimens does not preclude their being male and female of the same species.