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| Pseudoporatia kananciue Iniesta, Bouzan, Souza & Brescovit, in Iniesta, Bouzan, Souza , Zampaulo, Cizauskas & Brescovit, 2023. |
Here we describe the new species Pseudoporatia kananciue Iniesta, Bouzan, Souza & Brescovit, n. sp., widespread in the Amazonian ferruginous landscape of the state of Pará, Brazil. The species differs from its only congener P. perplexa Golovatch, 1999 by the presence of 19 body rings in adults (vs 20 body rings), the position of the porosteles on the paraterga, and the morphology of the gonopods. Notes on its ecology and comments on the diversity of millipedes in the region of Serra dos Carajás, state of Pará, Brazil, are also provided.
KEYWORDS: Carajás, Brölemann, Schubart, cave-dwelling, subterranean fauna, new species
Pseudoporatia kananciue Iniesta, Bouzan, Souza & Brescovit, n. sp.
ETYMOLOGY. — The specific epithet “ kananciue ” (Kananciuê), a noun in apposition, refers to the main God of the indigenous tribe “Karajás”, original inhabitants of forests of the Araguaia River and the Serra dos Carajás, where the species is widely distributed.
Luiz Felipe Moretti INIESTA, Rodrigo Salvador BOUZAN, Claudio A. R. SOUZA, Robson A. ZAMPAULO, Igor CIZAUSKAS and Antonio Domingos BRESCOVIT. 2023. Additions to the Millipede Fauna of An Amazonian Ferruginous Landscape: A New Species of Pseudoporatia Golovatch, 1999 widespread in Rock Outcrops (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Pyrgodesmidae). ZOOSYSTEMA. 45(16); 463-498.
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