Cleidogona austrina (Loomis)

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 : 89-90

Cleidogona austrina (Loomis)

Akacandra austrina Loomis, 1964 , p. 99. Cleidogona austrina: Shear, 1972 , p. 158.

Type and only locality: Cerro Punta, Chiriqui Prov., Panama.

At the type locality, this species would be sympatric with two species of Dybasia , D. chiriquia and D. divergens , but Loomis’ records of the latter two from Cerro Punta are based on females and juveniles and all three species are close in general appearance and size. Unfortunately the holotype is the only available male and the gonopods are not to be found in the vial (Shear 1972). The illustrations in the original description, especially of the ninth legpair, suggest that C. austrina might eventually find a better home in Dybasia . I did not place it there in 1972 because I was not able to study the gonopods, which Loomis depicted as very small, very simple, and lacking colpocoxites entirely.