ODONTOPELTIS XICA SP. NOV.

FIGURES 83–85, 87

Type material: Male holotype from Parque Nacional da Serra do Cipó, Santana do Riacho, (19°57′52′′S, 43°24′54′′W), Minas Gerais, Brazil, deposited in IBSP 1562 .

Etymology: The species epithet, a noun in apposition, is a patronym in honour of Francisca da Silva de Oliveira, known as Xica da Silva, a famous slave woman who became extremely rich in Minas Gerais.

Diagnosis: Males of Odontopeltis xica differ from all other species of the genus by the small size of process A (Fig. 83). The tip of process B is curved posteriorly (Figs 83, 85).

Description: Male (Holotype, IBSP 1562): Head, body and legs blackish. Paranota tip and telson yellow. Paranotal teeth formula: 0-0-0-0-2-2-3-2-3-3-2-4-3-2- 3-3-1-0-0. Total length 86. Collum 4 long, 13 wide. Antenna: 2.3, 2.0, 2.0, 2.0, 2.5. Genital opening 1.9 long, 3.3 wide. Telson 1.8. Prefemoral region 3 × longer than femoral region. Macrobristles on the same plane and with distance between them less than half the length of the bristle itself. Coxae of gonopods with a small spiniform process. Process A small and suboval, without apical process. Median process of the solenomere well-developed, projecting apically, not surpassing the tip of the solenomere.

Female: Unknown.

Distribution: Known only from the type locality.