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Narceus Woodruffi Causey, A Forgotten Rnilliped Species (Spirobolida: Spirobolidae), Rowland M. Shelley
Narceus Woodruffi Causey, A Forgotten Rnilliped Species (Spirobolida: Spirobolidae), Rowland M. Shelley
Insecta Mundi
Previous treatments of the east-Nearctic spirobolid genus Narceus Rafinesque have overlooked the name, N. woodruffi Causey. The holotype is lost, but examinations of a non-typical male and two paratype and three non-typical females show it to be a valid species, perhaps endemic to north Florida, distinguished by its small size and the configurations of the gonopods and coxal lobes of legs 3-6 in males. Supplemental anatomical notes are presented on the non-typical male along with comparative drawings of the lobes and gonopods of N. woodruffi, N. americanus (Beauvois), and N. annularis (Rafinesque); distributions of species of Narceus in Florida …