Arthrosolaenomeris curupira, Bouzan & Iniesta & Brescovit, 2021

Bouzan, Rodrigo Salvador, Iniesta, Luiz Felipe M. & Brescovit, Antonio Domingos, 2021, Cladistic analysis and taxonomic review of the millipede tribe Arthrosolaenomeridini Hoffman, 1976 (Polydesmida: Chelodesmidae), Zootaxa 4970 (2), pp. 201-256 : 216-219

Arthrosolaenomeris curupira n. sp.

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Type material. Male holotype from Nova Xavantina (14°40’24”S, 52°21’11”W), Mato Grosso, Brazil, XI.1949, Instituto Butantan Expedition coll., deposited in IBSP 59 . Paratype: one male with the same data of the holotype, deposited in IBSP 7786 .

Diagnosis. Adult males differ from all other species of the genus by the combination of the following characters: short (about half the length of secondary processes categorized as “elongated”) secondary process of the prefemoral process ( Fig. 7D) and presence of a lateral row of macrosetae in the gonocoxae, in mesal view ( Fig. 7D).

Description. Male (Holotype, IBSP 59). Coloration (long-preserved in 70% ethanol): Head and antennae ochre. Body ocher with the edge of the paranota yellow whitish ( Figs 7A–C). Legs ocher whitish. Telson ocher. Total length: 59.40. Total width: 9.76. Collum, length 2.98, width 9.56 Antennomere lengths (1>7): 0.69; 1.85; 1.50; 1.37; 1.38; 1.55; 0.37. Podomeres lengths (1>7): 0.89; 1.33; 2.84; 1.18; 1.59; 1.99; 0.45. Gonopod aperture, length 1.55, width 3.03. Telson, length 1.68. Gonopod: length 3.17, width 1.88. Gonocoxae: length 0.90, width 1.03. Telopodite: length 3.04, width 0.90. Prefemoral region 1/3 the size of telopodite. Prefemoral process ( Fig. 7D) length, broad and without indentations, presenting a dorso-basal lobe, starting from an angle of 135°, ascending parallel to the solenomere and partially covering it in mesal view, in the middle part of the process presents a short trianguliform secondary process, acute apex ( Fig. 7D). Solenomere long and narrow ( Fig. 7F). Cingulum positioned centroposteriorly ( Fig. 7F). Apex of the solenomere acute and abruptly descending ( Fig. 7F).

Female. Unknown.

Distribution. Known only from the type locality ( Fig. 11).

Etymology. The species epithet is a reference of the Brazilian folkloric character “Curupira”. According to the indigenous legend, Curupira is the protector of the Brazilian forests. Noun in apposition.