Polycricus yungarum, Pereira, 2005

Pereira, Luis Alberto, 2016, Plateurytion roigi sp. nov., a new geophilid centipede (Myriapoda: Chilopoda: Geophilomorpha) from Southern Chile, Zootaxa 4162 (2), pp. 347-360 : 358

Plateurytion yungarum ( Pereira, 2005)

Eurytion yungarum Pereira, 2005: 3

Eurytion yungarum: Pereira, 2006: 153 , 165, 167 (in key)

Plateurytion yungarum: Bonato, Pereira & Minelli, 2007: 6 ; Pereira, 2008: 56, 80, 81, 91; Pereira, 2015: 535 (in key).

New material examined. ARGENTINA: Jujuy province: Ledesma department: Parque Nacional Calilegua (near monolith), ca. 1700 m a.s.l., 9 August 1997, M. J. Ramírez and L. Compagnucci coll.: 1 ♀ with 53 leg-bearing segments, body length 27 mm (MACN-My 35).

Remarks. This species inhabiting the Yungas rainforests of northwestern Argentina (Yungas biogeographic province), is currently known from only two specimens, both collected in the montane forest altitudinal level: male holotype, with 49 leg-bearing segments, body length 19 mm (from Jujuy province: Ledesma department: ca. 50 km W of Fraile Pintado, ca. 900 m a.s.l.), and a female specimen with 53 leg-bearing segments, body length 24 mm (from Jujuy province: Ledesma department: Parque Nacional Calilegua, entry area, ca. 605 m a.s.l.). The present new specimen, as the latter, comes from Parque Nacional Calilegua, but it was collected in a different area of the park, at ca. 1700 m a.s.l. (montane cloud forest altitudinal level). (For details on geographic location; floristic and faunal components of the Argentinan Yungas, see Cabrera 1971; Cabrera and Willink 1973; Brown 1995; Prado 1995; Pereira 2005, 2006, 2016; Guielbert & Montemayor 2010; Morrone 2014).

Type locality. ARGENTINA: Jujuy province: Ledesma department: ca. 50 km W of Fraile Pintado.

Known range. ARGENTINA: Jujuy province: Ledesma department.