%0 Journal Article
%T A further contribution to the knowledge of Pectiniunguis minutus (Demange, 1968), a little known dwarf schendylid centipede from western equatorial Africa (Chilopoda: geophilomorpha)
%A Pereira
%A Luis Alberto
%J Pap¨¦is Avulsos de Zoologia (SŁżo Paulo)
%D 2011
%I USP
%R 10.1590/S0031-10492011002000001
%X the geophilomorph centipede pectiniunguis minutus (demange, 1968), a little known dwarf schendylid from gabon (western equatorial africa), is redescribed and illustrated based on the type material and an additional non-type specimen preserved in the collections of the mus¨¦um national d'histoire naturelle, paris. p. minutus can be easily differentiated from all the other species currently assigned to the genus pectiniunguis, by the very low number of leg-bearing segments (35 in the males, 37 or 39 in the females) and very small body size (12-16 mm in length). p. minutus is also distinguished by having ventral pore-fields on the anterior region of the body only, this character being shared by a single species of the genus, i.e., p. ascendens pereira, minelli & barbieri, 1994, from the neotropics (brazil: state of amazonas) with which a morphological comparison is given. comments about other dwarf centipede species belonging to several families of the order geophilomorpha, are also added.
%K pectiniunguis
%K taxonomy
%K western equatorial africa
%K chilopoda
%K geophilomorpha
%K schendylidae.
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