Cleidogona minutissima (Kraus)

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 : 91

Cleidogona minutissima (Kraus)

Hirsutogona minutissima Kraus, 1954 , p. 332. Cleidogona minutissima: Shear, 1972 , p. 222.

Type and only locality: Laguna de las Ranas, Sonosante Dept., El Salvador.

Kraus (1954) established the genus Hirsutogona with this species as type of the genus; also included were C. mirabilis (Kraus) , C. godmani Pocock , and C. stolli Pocock. Kraus had mounted the gonopods permanently on microscope slides, with attendent crushing and distortion, which made them difficult to study in 1972. However, the species placed in Hirsutogona are perfectly typical of Central American Cleidogona . Cleidogona minutissima , despite its name, is still more than 50% larger than C. huebnerae n. sp.