Cleidogona curvipes (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 : 90

Cleidogona curvipes (Loomis)

Costaricia curvipes Loomis, 1966 , p. 227. Cleidogona curvipes: Shear, 1972 , p. 158.

Type and only locality: Cairo, Limón Prov., Costa Rica.

Loomis (1966) based the genus Costaricia on the bifurcate process of the twelfth sternum, a character shared by C. ceibana and perhaps by C. bifurca , see notes above. I did not consider this single character to be diagnostic of a genus, but it may indicate relationship of the three species. The gonopods of all three appear to be distinct from each other.