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Genus of centipedes

Chileana
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Myriapoda
Class: Chilopoda
Order: Geophilomorpha
Family: Linotaeniidae
Genus: Chileana
Özdikmen, 2009
Species: C. araucanensis
Binomial name
Chileana araucanensis
(Silvestri, 1889)
Synonyms
  • Araucania Chamberlin, 1956
  • Linotaenia araucanensis Silvestri, 1899

Chileana is a genus of soil centipedes in the clade Linotaeniidae and family Geophilidae found in southern Chile. This genus currently includes only one species, C. araucanensis. Females of this species are about 30mm long, with a pale yellow body and a red head; bearing 12–15 pleural pores; long, tapering antennae with sparse basal sections and rather hairy distal sections; and a labrum with four median tubercles bearing a few cilia on the sides. Males have 10 pleural pores, thick ultimate legs armed with claws, and 43 leg pairs.

Taxonomy

Chileana araucanensis was originally named Linotaenia araucanensis Silvestri, 1899, and it was later moved to the genus Araucania Chamberlin, 1956. However, Araucania Chamberlin was found to be a junior homonym of Araucania Pate, 1947, and thus was renamed Chileana Özdikmen, 2009.

References

  1. ^ "Chileana Özdikmen, 2009". ChiloBase 2.0. Retrieved 2 July 2022.
  2. Vega-Román, Emmanuel; Hugo Ruiz, Víctor (2018). "Catalogue of Chilean centipedes (Myriapoda, Chilopoda)" (PDF). Soil Organisms. 90 (1): 27–37. Retrieved 2 July 2022.
  3. Silvestri, F. (1899). "Contribucion al estudio de los quilopodos chilenos" (PDF). Revista Chilena de Historia Natural (in Spanish). 3: 141–152. Retrieved 2 July 2022.
  4. "Araucania araucanensis (Silvestri,1899)". ChiloBase 2.0. Retrieved 2 July 2022.
  5. Özdikmen, Hüseyin (2009). "New names for two preoccupied centipede genera (Chilopoda)" (PDF). Munis Entomology & Zoology. 4 (1): 227–229. Retrieved 2 July 2022.

Further reading

  • Foddai, Donatella; Dallai, Romano (1995). Chilopoda, Diplopoda, Pauropoda, Symphyla. Calderini.
  • Capinera, John L., ed. (2008). Encyclopedia of Entomology. Springer. ISBN 978-1402062421.
Taxon identifiers
Dignathodontidae


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