Chileana

Short description: Genus of centipedes

Chileana

Scientific classification
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[1] found in southern Chile.[2] It currently has 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

Chileana 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 thus was renamed Chileana Özdikmen, 2009.[5][1]

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Chileana Özdikmen, 2009". https://chilobase.biologia.unipd.it/searches/result_genres/611.
2. ↑ 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.
3. ↑ 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.
4. ↑ "Araucania araucanensis (Silvestri,1899)". https://chilobase.biologia.unipd.it/searches/result_species/3033.
5. ↑ Özdikmen, Hüseyin (2009). "New names for two preoccupied centipede genera (Chilopoda).". Munis Entomology & Zoology 4 (1): 227-229. https://www.munisentzool.org/yayin/vol4/issue1/227-229.pdf. Retrieved 2 July 2022.

## Further reading

* Foddai, Donatella; Dallai, Romano (1995). Chilopoda, Diplopoda, Pauropoda, Symphyla. Calderini.
* Encyclopedia of Entomology. Springer. 2008. ISBN 978-1402062421.

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