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Karyotype of a termitophilic species of Diplopoda (Polydesmida, Chelodesmidae)

Carmem Silvia Fontanetti

Departamento de Biologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade Estadual Paulista, Av. 24-A, 1515,13506-900 Rio Claro, SP, Brasil

ABSTRACT

This report describes the karyotype of a Brazilian Diplopod species (Arthropoda), Sandalodesmus gasparae (Schubart, Acta Zool. Lilloana Inst. "Miguel Lillo" 2: 321-440,1944), collected from a termite mound Cornitermes bequaerti. This species has 2n = 12. The sex pair could not be distinguished.

Keywords: karyotype; termitophilic; Diplopoda.

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