Adelphopauropus

Scheller, Ulf, 2013, Three new species of Pauropoda (Myriapoda) from Brazil with description of a new genus in Diplopauropodidae, Adelphopauropus, Zootaxa 3664 (1), pp. 69-77 : 73-74

Family Diplopauropodidae Scheller, 1988

The Pauropoda was long considered to always have a single anal plate projecting backwards from the posteriomedian part of the pygidial sternum, but in the late 1980´s the present author described Diplopauropus vesiculosus and D. sp., both from South Carolina (Scheller 1988) and D, muchmorei (in Scheller & Muchmore 1990), species having two anal plates, besides the sternal plate one also on the pygidial tergum,.

Besides these species, at least two more have two anal plates, Decapauropus manausensis Scheller from the Tarumã Mirím River, Amazonas (Scheller 1994), and a new species described below from a neighbouring place, Praja Grande. Because they have characters not fitting with Diplopauropus a new genus, Adelphopauropus , has been created for them.

In many species in Decapauropus there is a rounded or triangular median lobe projecting posteriorly on the pygidial tergum. It is most often low and rounded, sometimes triangular or of more complex shape but never distinctly demarcated anteriorly as in Diplopauropus and Adelphopauropus and always without appendages. Lobes most similar to plates are in D. lobiger Remy, D. prolongatus Scheller, D. quinqueangularis Scheller and D. chaulisetosus Scheller.