A further contribution to the knowledge of two inadequately known species of geophilid centipedes from the Andes of South-Central Chile, currently assigned to the genus Plateurytion Attems, 1909 (Chilopoda: Geophilomorpha) Author Pereira, Luis Alberto text Zootaxa 2015 4027 4 509 537 journal article 39631 10.11646/zootaxa.4027.4.3 071a54c3-4d19-411e-87b9-427059dc1ffb 1175-5326 234708 4218E1CD-9016-47C3-A1DA-291F9C53661F

TABLE 1. Comparative matrix of morphological traits for Plateurytion mundus (Chamberlin, 1955) and P. zapallar (Chamberlin, 1955). (Characters of P. mundus from lectotype female, paralectotype A female, and paralectotype B female; those of P. zapallar come from lectotype male, paralectotype female, and non-type specimens mentioned in "Other material examined").

	P. mundus	P. zapallar
Number of leg-bearing segments	♀: 49, 51 ♂:?	♀: 47, 49, (probably 51), 53 ♂: 47, 49, 51
Body length	35–45 mm (♀)	27 mm (♂) 28 mm (♀)
Maximum body width	ca. 1.9 mm (♀)	ca. 1.3 mm (♂)
Number of claviform sensilla on external border of a.a. XIV	ca. 29	ca. 13
Number of type b and c specialized sensilla on dorsal side of a.a. XIII	type b: ca. 14 type c: ca. 6	type b: ca. 3 type c: ca. 1
Teeth of labrum mid-piece	Short slightly sharp pointed (Fig. 8)	similar to the long filaments of the sidepieces (but thinner and smaller, Figs. 63, 64)
Number of ventral setae on second article of telopodites of first maxillae	ca. 12–13	ca. 4–7
Number of ventral setae on third article of telopodites of second maxillae	ca. 11–15	ca. 5–6
Middle part of anterior border of forcipular coxosternite conspicuously notched and strongly concave	no (slightly concave, Figs. 40, 42)	yes (Figs. 67, 69)
Ventral pore-fields	undivided on metasternite 1, divided in two areas on metasternites 2 to penultimate (Figs. 15–29, 45–51)	undivided on metasternites 1 to ca. 15, divided in two areas on remaining metasternites including the penultimate (Figs. 73–85)
Anterior accessory spines of claws of walking legs	pigmented (Figs. 35, 36: a)	unpigmented (Figs. 92, 93: a)
Number of organs in each cluster of coxal organs in the coxopleura of the ultimate leg-bearing segment	ca. 20–25 (Fig. 39)	ca. 8–11 (Figs. 96, 104, 109)