Leodesmus yporangae
Description
Leodesmus yporangae (Schubart, 1946)
Alocodesmus yporangae Schubart, 1946: 308, Fig. 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; 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); 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., 6♂ 8♀; 10.xi.1982, E. Trajano coll., 1♀; 24.viii.1983, N.M. Godoy coll., 8♂; cave Água Quente (Ressurgência das Areias), (48°40’18.18”W; 24°33’45.55”S), 22.x.1983, N.M. Godoy coll., 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).
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).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Event date
- 1951-02-19 , 1983-10-22
- Family
- Chelodesmidae
- Genus
- Leodesmus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Polydesmida
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Schubart
- Species
- yporangae
- Taxon rank
- species
- Verbatim event date
- 1951-02-19 , 1983-10-22
- Taxonomic concept label
- Leodesmus yporangae (Schubart, 1946) sec. Bouzan, Iniesta, Pena-Barbosa & Brescovit, 2018
References
- Hoffman, R. L. 1969. Chelodesmid studies. IV. A summary of the tribe Batodesmini, with the description of a new species of Biporodesmus from northwestern Brasil. Papeis Avulsos do Departamento de Zoologia, 22 (25): 263 - 283.
- Hoffman, R. L. 1990. Chelodesmid studies XX. Millipeds of the new Brasilian tribe Cornalatini (Polydesmida: Chelodesmidae). Papeis Avulsos do Departamento de Zoologia, 37: 23 - 37.
- Mauries, J. P. 1974. Un cambalide cavernicole du Bresil, Pseudonannolene strinatii n. sp. (Myriapoda-Diplopoda). Revue suisse de Zoologie, 81: 545 - 549.
- Mauries, J. P. & Geoffroy, J. J. 2000. Nouvelle description, classification, repartition et variations morphologiques interpopulations d' un diplopode troglobie du sud-est du Bresil. Zoosystema, 22: 153 - 168.
- Pinto-da-Rocha, R. 1995. Sinopse da fauna cavernicola do Brasil (1907 - 1994). Papeis Avulsos de Zoologia, 39: 61 - 173.