Biology:Cesachile
Cesachile is a genus of soil centipedes formerly placed in the family Linotaeniidae, which is now deemed to be a clade in the family Geophilidae.[1] Centipedes in this genus are found in southern Chile.[2] This genus currently includes only one species, C. araucanensis.[1] 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.[3]
Taxonomy
Cesachile araucanensis was originally named Linotaenia araucanensis Silvestri, 1899, and it was later moved to the genus Araucania Chamberlin, 1956.[4] However, Araucania Chamberlin was found to be a junior homonym of Araucania Pate, 1947, and was renamed Cesachile Koçak & Kemal in 2008, and unnecessarily renamed yet again as "Chileana" by Özdikmen in 2009.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Chileana Özdikmen, 2009". https://chilobase.biologia.unipd.it/searches/result_genres/611.
- ↑ Vega-Román, Emmanuel; Hugo Ruiz, Víctor (2018). "Catalogue of Chilean centipedes (Myriapoda, Chilopoda)". Soil Organisms 90 (1): 27–37. https://www.senckenberg.de/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/90-1-04_vega-roman_catalogue-of-chilean-centripedes.pdf. Retrieved 2 July 2022.
- ↑ Silvestri, F. (1899). "Contribucion al estudio de los quilopodos chilenos" (in Spanish). Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 3: 141–152. http://rchn.biologiachile.cl/pdfs/1899/10-11/Silvestri_1899.10-11.pdf. Retrieved 2 July 2022.
- ↑ "Araucania araucanensis (Silvestri,1899)". https://chilobase.biologia.unipd.it/searches/result_species/3033.
Further reading
- Foddai, Donatella; Dallai, Romano (1995). Chilopoda, Diplopoda, Pauropoda, Symphyla. Calderini.
- Encyclopedia of Entomology. Springer. 2008. ISBN 978-1402062421.
Wikidata ☰ Q21230922 entry
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