Abstract
Furculanurida tropicalia sp. no v., is described from leaf litter of the Atlantic forest of Southeast Brazil. It is characterized as being the first species of the genus that possess 8+8 eyes. New diagnosis and remarks on the genus and the species ofFurculanurida are made. The species Stachorutes arlei is transferred once more from Furculanurida to Stachorutes. The genus Furculanurida was created by Massoud (1967) and has, up to date, 13 nominal species distributed in the Neotropical, Ethiopian andthe Nearctic regions, each with seven, five and one described species, respectively. Among the seven species from the Neotropics, three were described from Brazil: F. belemensis Arle & Rufino, 1976, F. goeldiana Arle & Rufino, 1976 and F. nessimiani Fernandes & Mendonca, 2002. The first two species, described from the Brazilian Amazon Forest, Para State, and the third from the Atlantic Forest leaf litter of Serra do Mar, Sao Paulo State. The new species, F. tropicalia sp. nov., was found in leaf litterof the Table-1 and Atlantic Forest of Espirito Santo State and is the first species of the genus that have 8+8 eyes.
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