Camptomorpha orites ( Chamberlin, 1941 )

Golovatch, Sergei I. & Bouzan, Rodrigo S., 2025, Review of the South American millipede genus Camptomorpha Sivestri, 1897, with the description of a new species from Peru (Diplopoda: Polydesmida: Chelodesmidae), Arthropoda Selecta 34 (1), pp. 1-15 : 5-7

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.15298/arthsel.34.1.01

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15610425

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/C46D87F6-BB59-032B-84C9-B6D5FE9A6CCA

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scientific name

Camptomorpha orites ( Chamberlin, 1941 )
status

 

Camptomorpha orites ( Chamberlin, 1941) View in CoL

Fig. 5 View Fig .

EucAmpesmus View in CoL Orites Chamberlin, 1941: 489 View in CoL , figs 97–100 (holotYpe ♂, AMNH); Jeekel 1971: 262. CAmptOmOrpHA Oreites View in CoL (sic!) — Hoffman, 1953: 124. Leptodesmus View in CoL ( PHAntAsmOdesmus View in CoL ) Orites View in CoL — Kraus, 1956: 142,

Camptomorpha by implication. BRIEF DESCRIPTIVE NOTES (after Chamberlin

chocolate brown with light brown or yellowish paraterga, and antennae and legs light brown. Paraterga broadly and regularly rounded, lateral rim smooth ( Fig. 5A View Fig ), most anterior ones each with a small tooth towards anterior corner, caudal corner rather narrowly rounded; midbody pore-bearing calluses (= peritremata) set off from anterolateral rim. ♂ legs ventrallY with tibiae carrying apical chelae.

Gonopods ( Fig. 5B–D View Fig ) with both prefemoral process (PfP) and acropodite (A) subequal in length, both very complex and heavily armed; PfP broad, with two elongated and acute projections along its middle portion, ending in another elongated and acute apex directed laterally; A with an irregular internal margin with several small indentations, apical portion semi-spatulate in shape, with a triangular projection in central portion of apex; solenomere (sl) slender and simple, only slightly curved apically.

DISTRIBUTION. Peru, Contayo Hills , Rio Tapiche, 7°26′55.2″S 73°56′27.3″W, 700 ft [ Chamberlin, 1941] GoogleMaps .

Hoffman [in litt.] located a strict topotYpe ♂ in the AMNH collection and depicted its right gonopod in proper detail ( Fig. 5B–D View Fig ) .

AMNH

American Museum of Natural History

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Diplopoda

Order

Polydesmida

Family

Chelodesmidae

Genus

Camptomorpha

Loc

Camptomorpha orites ( Chamberlin, 1941 )

Golovatch, Sergei I. & Bouzan, Rodrigo S. 2025
2025
Loc

EucAmpesmus

Chamberlin R. V. 1941: 489
1941
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