Chileana Explained

Chileana is a genus of soil centipedes in the clade Linotaeniidae and family Geophilidae^[1] 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

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]}

Further reading

• Book: Foddai . Donatella. Dallai . Romano. 1995. Chilopoda, Diplopoda, Pauropoda, Symphyla. Calderini.
• Book: Capinera . John L.. 2008. Encyclopedia of Entomology. Springer. 978-1402062421.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Chileana Özdikmen, 2009 . ChiloBase 2.0 . 2 July 2022.
2. Vega-Román . Emmanuel . Hugo Ruiz . Víctor . Catalogue of Chilean centipedes (Myriapoda, Chilopoda) . Soil Organisms . 2018 . 90 . 1 . 27-37 . 2 July 2022.
3. Silvestri . F. . 1899 . Contribucion al estudio de los quilopodos chilenos . Revista Chilena de Historia Natural . Spanish . 3 . 141-152 . 2 July 2022.
4. Web site: Araucania araucanensis (Silvestri,1899) . ChiloBase 2.0 . 2 July 2022.
5. Özdikmen . Hüseyin . New names for two preoccupied centipede genera (Chilopoda). . Munis Entomology & Zoology . 2009 . 4 . 1 . 227-229 . 2 July 2022.