Leodesmus yporangae (Schubart, 1946)

Bouzan, Rodrigo Salvador, Iniesta, Luiz Felipe Moretti, Pena-Barbosa, João Paulo Peixoto & Brescovit, Antonio Domingos, 2018, Annotated checklist of the millipede family Chelodesmidae Cook, 1895 from São Paulo state, Brazil (Diplopoda: Polydesmida), Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia 58, pp. 1-19 : 4-5

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11606/1807-0205/2018.58.06
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5073055
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/E2168969-FFB8-FFDE-BA78-FB3EFE3EAD91
treatment provided by	Carolina
scientific name	Leodesmus yporangae (Schubart, 1946)
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Leodesmus yporangae (Schubart, 1946) View in CoL

Alocodesmus yporangae Schubart, 1946: 308 View in CoL , Fig. 1 View Figure 1 (Male holotype, MZSP, from cave Areias de Baixo, Iporanga, 48°42’01.65”W; 24°35’01.71”S, São Paulo, Brazil); Schubart, 1955: 513; Hoffman, 1969: 281, 1990: 31; Mauriès, 1974: 545, 546; Silhavý, 1974: 897; Pinto-da-Rocha, 1995: 103.

Leodesmus yporangae: Mauriès & Geoffroy, 2000: 162 View in CoL ; Trajano et al., 2000: 269; ICMBio, 2016: 67.

Historical records: BRAZIL. São Paulo: Iporanga, Parque Estadual Turístico do Alto Ribeira (PETAR), cave Areias de Baixo (48°42’01.65”W; 24°35’01.71”S),1942, C.Pavan coll., 5♂ 7♀ (Schubart, 1946) GoogleMaps ; 1942, Dreifuss / Pavan coll., 5♂ 7♀; cave Areias de Cima (48°42’01.65”W; 24°35’01.71”S), 19.ii.1951, O. Schubart coll., GoogleMaps 6♂ 8♀; 10.xi.1982, E. Trajano coll., 1♀; 24.viii.1983, N.M. Godoy coll GoogleMaps ., 8♂; cave Água Quente (Ressurgência das Areias ), (48°40’18.18”W; 24°33’45.55”S), 22.x.1983, N.M. Godoy coll., GoogleMaps 2♂ 2♀; 29.x.1997, E.H. Santos coll., 2♂; cave Alambari de Cima (48°39’53.34”W; 24°33’18.55”S), 1984, E. Trajano coll., 1♂ 1♀; 09.iv.1990, M.C. Chamani & J.P.M. Seino coll., 1♂ ( Mauriès & Geoffroy, 2000 GoogleMaps ).

Material examined: BRAZIL. São Paulo: Iporanga, Parque EstadualTurísticodoAltoRibeira(PETAR) ,(48°38’48.09”W; 24°29’10.07”S), undetermined cave, vii.1992, A. Eterovic coll., 1♂ 7♀ ( IBSP 3576 ).

Remarks: According to the most recent Brazilian Red Book of Threatened Species of Fauna (2016), the species is the only one chelodesmidan considered as critically endangered from Brazil, occurring exclusively in the subterranean system from Vale do Ribeira (Schubart, 1946; Pinto-da-Rocha, 1995).