Pectiniunguis Bollman, 1889

Pereira, Luis Alberto, 2018, A new high-altitude species of centipede from the Andes of Ecuador (Chilopoda, Geophilomorpha, Schendylidae), Zootaxa 4374 (3), pp. 409-426 : 410

Genus Pectiniunguis Bollman, 1889

Pectiniunguis Bollman, 1889 , by original designation. Type species. Pectiniunguis americanus Bollman, 1889: 212 , by original designation.

Number of species: 24. For a list of species currently contained in Pectiniunguis see Foddai et al. (2000), Pereira (2011), and ChiloBase 2.0 ( Bonato et al. 2016).

Diagnosis. This genus is distinguished from others in the family Schendylidae by the following combination of features. Second maxillae pleurites not fused to the posterior internal border of the coxosternite (not as in Ctenophilus Cook, 1896 in which the pleurites are fused). Apical claw of telopodites pectinate on both dorsal and ventral edges (not smooth as in Sogodes Chamberlin, 1921 ). Metasternites with pore-fields (not absent as in Nannopodellus Chamberlin, 1924 ). Telopodites of ultimate legs with six articles (not five as in Nannopodellus ), and ultimate pretarsus a small hairy tubercle, replaced by a small spine, or altogether absent, in both males and females (not claw-like as in Nyctunguis Chamberlin, 1914 ). Each coxopleuron with two internal coxal organs of composite structure (“heterogeneous coxal glands” sensu Brölemann & Ribaut 1912) [not of simple structure (“homogeneous coxal glands”) as in Schendylops Cook, 1899 ].