Camptomorpha tocachensis ( Kraus, 1955 )

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 : 10-11

Camptomorpha tocachensis ( Kraus, 1955)

Fig. 10 .

PrOletus tOcAcHensis Kraus, 1955: 186 , plate 18, figs 25–28. HolotYpe ♂, MUSM.

Leptodesmus ( PHAntAsmOdesmus ) tOcAcHensis — Kraus, 1956: 142, Camptomorpha by implication.

BRIEF DESCRIPTIVE NOTES (after Kraus [1955]). Length 45 mm, width 4.8 mm (♂). Coloration light red-brown with a light axial stripe; lateral halves of paraterga white-yellow both dorsally and ventrally, sides red-brown, sterna and legs light brown. Paraterga short and strongly rimmed, anterior corners strongly rounded, lateral rim slightly serrate, caudal corners mostly rounded and slightly drawn past straight rear tergal margins. Epiproct short, slightly attenuated and subtruncate. Hypoproct roundly triangular with two thick setigerous knobs near caudal margin. ♂ legs ventrallY with prefemora carrYing apical swellings, and tibiae with apical chelae ( Fig. 10A ).

Gonopods ( Fig. 10B–D ) with prefemoral process (PfP) much longer than acropodite (A), both highly complex and strongly armed; PfP with a broad and concave apex directed basally, with two processes: one longer and curved, bearing a small secondary branch, and a smaller one positioned more basally; A irregular in shape, resembling a wide lamina, with a well-developed process at internal medial margin; solenomere (sl) simple, subflagelliform and onlY slightlY curved.

DISTRIBUTION. Peru, Tocache, Rio Huallaga, 8°11′

24.1″S 76°30′33.9″W, 580 m [ Kraus, 1955].

Figures

Fig. 10. CAmptOmOrpHA tOcAcHensis (Kraus, 1955), ♂ holotYpe. A — leg 9, caudal view; B–D — right gonopod, lateral, ventral and mesal views, respectively. Designations:A — acropodite; PfP — prefemoral process; sl — solenomere. After Kraus [1955]. Рис. 10. CAmptOmOrpHA tOcAcHensis (Kraus, 1955), голотип ♂. A — нога 9, сЗади; B–D — правый гонопод, соответственно сбоку, сниЗу и иЗнутри. ОбоЗначениЯ:A — акроподит; PfP — префеморальный отросток; sl — соленомер. По: Kraus [1955].