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Issue: Vol. 3964 No. 5: 5 Jun. 2015
Type: Article
Published: 2015-06-05
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3964.5.4
Page range: 546–552
Abstract views: 22
PDF downloaded: 1

Stemmiulus brasiliensis n. sp., a new species of millipede from Brazilian iron ore caves (Diplopoda: Stemmiulida: Stemmiulidae)

Centro de Estudos em Biologia Subterrânea, Setor de Zoologia Geral, Departamento de Biologia, Universidade Federal de Lavras, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Centro de Estudos em Biologia Subterrânea, Setor de Zoologia Geral, Departamento de Biologia, Universidade Federal de Lavras, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Stemmiulida Neotropics Iron ore caves Brazil Myriapoda

Abstract

A new species of Stemmiulus Gervais, 1844 is described from Amazonian iron ore caves located in Pará State, Brazil. The new species differs from the other Brazilian species by gonopod morphology, especially the angiocoxite and colpocoxite, and for the first pairs of legs of males. A key for the species of Stemmiulus found in Brazil is included.