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<mods:title>A new cave centipede from Croatia, Eupolybothrusliburnicus sp. n., with notes on the subgenus Schizopolybothrus Verhoeff, 1934 (Chilopoda, Lithobiomorpha, Lithobiidae)</mods:title>
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<taxonomicName authority="Latzel, 1888" authorityName="Latzel" authorityYear="1888" class="Chilopoda" family="Lithobiidae" genus="Eupolybothrus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Eupolybothrus spiniger" order="Chilopoda" pageId="1" pageNumber="12" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="spiniger">Eupolybothrus spiniger (Latzel, 1888)</taxonomicName>
Figs 8, 11E
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<paragraph pageId="2" pageNumber="13">
<taxonomicName family="Lithobiidae" genus="Lithobus" higherTaxonomySource="treatment-meta" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Lithobus spiniger" order="Chilopoda" pageId="2" pageNumber="13" rank="species" species="spiniger">
<pageBreakToken pageId="2" pageNumber="13" start="start">Lithobus</pageBreakToken>
spiniger
</taxonomicName>
Latzel, 1888: 93.
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<paragraph pageId="2" pageNumber="13">Material.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="2" pageNumber="13">Lectotype. adult ♂, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1887, J. Karlinski leg., NHMW 1463, new designation. Paralectotype. 1 subadult ♂, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1887, J. Karlinski leg., NHMW 8330.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="2" pageNumber="13">Original description</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="2" pageNumber="13">(translated from Latin). 'Robust, slightly punctate to smooth, posteriorly granulate, chestnut to reddish-brown; glossy. Two antennae slightly elongate, with 50-56 articles. Ocelli on each side: 16-19 (1 + 4, 4, 4, 3 - 1 + 4, 5, 5, 3, 1), in 4-5 longitudinal rows. Forcipular coxosternum: with 14-22 short teeth (7 + 7 - 11 + 11). Tergites 9, 11, 13 with posterior pointed projections, 14 with irregular margin, gradually narrowing posteriad in two pointed projections; coxal pores numerous, round, placed in irregular rows. Ultimate legs: elongate and robust with simple claw; spines: 1, 1, 4, 2, 0-1, coxa with 3 spines on lateral margins. In male ultimate legs, third article (femur) with a large protuberance anteriorly, and indented internal margins. Female: 28-35 mm long, 3.5-4 mm broad.'</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="2" pageNumber="13">Descriptive notes based on the lectotype.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="2" pageNumber="13">Specimen with broken antenna; 15th legs detached, missing terminal articles, left legs 1, 3, 5 and part of the left forcipule missing.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="3" pageNumber="14">
<pageBreakToken pageId="3" pageNumber="14" start="start">Body</pageBreakToken>
length: (from anterior margin of cephalic plate to posterior margin of telson) ca. 33 mm.
</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="3" pageNumber="14">Colour: reddish brown, head and first tergite darker.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="3" pageNumber="14">
Head: cephalic plate slightly broader than long (3.5
<normalizedToken originalValue="×">x</normalizedToken>
3.8 mm, respectively) and wider than T1 (Fig. 8B); surface smooth, with marks of scattered setae. Cephalic median sulcus contributing to biconvex anterior margin, marginal ridge with a median thickening; posterior margin straight to slightly concave; transverse suture situated at about 1/3rd of anterior edge; posterior limbs of transverse suture visible, connecting basal antennal article with anterior part of the ocellar area.
</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="3" pageNumber="14">Ocelli: 18, blackish, in 4 irregular rows; outermost first seriate ocellus largest; ocelli of the middle two rows medium-sized, those of inferior row smallest.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="3" pageNumber="14">
<normalizedToken originalValue="Tömösvárys">Toemoesvary's</normalizedToken>
organ: moderately large (as large as a medium ocellus), oval and situated on a sub-triangular sclerotisation below the inferiormost row of seriate ocelli.
</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="3" pageNumber="14">Clypeus: showing a cluster of 30 setae situated on the apex and near the lateral margins (Fig. 8C).</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="3" pageNumber="14">Antennae: Broken, with more than 54 articles.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="3" pageNumber="14">Forcipular segment: Coxosternum with 9+9 teeth and a porodont situated lateral of the distalmost tooth on both sides (Fig. 8D, E).</paragraph>
<caption pageId="3" pageNumber="14">
<paragraph pageId="3" pageNumber="14">
Figure 8.
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Latzel 1889, lectotype NHMW 1463. A habitus B Cephalic plate, dorsal view C Clypeus, ventral view D Cephalic plate, ventral view E Close-up of the coxosternum, ventral view F Tergites 6-8, dorsal view G Tergites 9-12, dorsal view H Tergites 14-15, dorsal view I Tarsi 1, 2 and pretarsus of midbody leg J Prefemur of leg 15, ventral view K Close-up of the circular protuberance L Sternite 14 and intermediate sternite, ventral view. Abbreviations: cp: circular protuberance, ss: seriate setae, pk: prefemoral knob.
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<paragraph pageId="3" pageNumber="14">Tergites: T1 wider than long, subtrapeziform, wider anteriorly (Fig. 8B), posterior margin straight or slightly emarginated, marginal ridge with a small median thickening; TT3 and 5 more elongated than T1, posterior margin slightly emarginated medially, posterior angles rounded; posterior angles of T4 rounded; posterior margin of T8 slightly emarginated medially, angles rounded (Fig. 8F); TT6, 7 without posterior projections (Fig. 8G), TT9, 11, 13 with posterior triangular projections (Fig. 8A, H), T14 with posterior margin gradually narrowing into two sub-triangular projections densely covered with setae indicated by marks on tergites (Fig. 8H); intermediate tergite hexagonal, posteriorly emarginated; median part with evident setal marks, laterally with two sub-triangular setae-free spots.</paragraph>
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Legs: leg 15 18.4 mm long, ca. 56% of body length; pectinal (seriate) setae missing on tarsus1 and 2 of leg 15, present in one short row on tarsus 2 of leg 14, in one row on tarsus 1 and two rows on tarsus 2 of legs 1-13 (Fig. 8I, ss). Prefemur of leg 15 with a large proximal knob (Fig. 8J, pk) protruding mediad and possibly bearing a cluster of setae on tip (all setae broken but indicated by marks on prefemur), in dorsal view the knob is less broad than the prefemur and not as round as in
<taxonomicName lsidName="E. caesar" pageId="3" pageNumber="14" rank="species" species="caesar">E. caesar</taxonomicName>
and
<taxonomicName lsidName="E. leostygis" pageId="3" pageNumber="14" rank="species" species="leostygis">E. leostygis</taxonomicName>
. Mesial ridge thin, reaching 2/3rd the length of the prefemur, gently narrowing distad. Posterior edge of prefemur with a circular protuberance between p and m dorso-laterally (Fig. 8K, cp); rest of prefemur with obvious marks of setae.
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<paragraph pageId="3" pageNumber="14">Coxal pores: generally round, arranged in 6-7 irregular rows, pores of inner rows largest, size decreasing outwards; pores separated from each other by a distance more than, or equal to their diameter (Fig. 8L).</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="3" pageNumber="14">Sternites: smooth, subtrapeziform, with few sparse setae, mainly at lateral margins; posterior margins straight.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="4" pageNumber="15">
<pageBreakToken pageId="4" pageNumber="15" start="start">Genitalia</pageBreakToken>
: posterior margin of male first genital sternite concave, broadly V-shaped, posterior margin densely covered with long setae, the rest of sternite sparsely covered with shorter setae (Fig. 8L). Gonopod small, not depicted.
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<subSubSection pageId="4" pageNumber="15" type="remarks">
<paragraph pageId="4" pageNumber="15">Remarks.</paragraph>
<paragraph pageId="4" pageNumber="15">
<taxonomicName lsidName="E. spiniger" pageId="4" pageNumber="15" rank="species" species="spiniger">E. spiniger</taxonomicName>
has not been collected since
<normalizedToken originalValue="Latzels">Latzel's</normalizedToken>
original description. The type material consists of two syntypes - an adult male and a juvenile - collected in
<normalizedToken originalValue="Foča">Foca</normalizedToken>
(a town within Republika Srpska, coordinates:
<geoCoordinate direction="north" orientation="latitude" precision="925" value="43.5">43°30'N</geoCoordinate>
,
<geoCoordinate direction="east" orientation="longitude" precision="925" value="18.783333">18°47'E</geoCoordinate>
) at approximately 1000 m altitude (
<bibRefCitation author="Latzel, R" journalOrPublisher="Verhandlungen der Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien" pageId="9" pageNumber="20" pagination="91 - 94" title="Die vom k. k. Oberartze Herrn Dr. Justyn Karlinski im Jahre 1887 in Bosnien, der Herzegowina und in Novibazar gesammelten Myriopoden." volume="1886" year="1888">Latzel 1888</bibRefCitation>
).
<bibRefCitation author="Stoev, P" journalOrPublisher="ZooKeys" pageId="10" pageNumber="21" pagination="29 - 77" title="The centipede genus Eupolybothrus Verhoeff, 1907 (Chilopoda: Lithobiomorpha: Lithobiidae) in North Africa, a cybertaxonomic revision, with a key to all species in the genus and the first use of DNA barcoding for the group." url="https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.50.504" volume="50" year="2010">Stoev et al. (2010)</bibRefCitation>
regarded
<taxonomicName lsidName="E. (Schizopolybothrus) spiniger" pageId="4" pageNumber="15" rank="species" species="spiniger" subGenus="Schizopolybothrus">E. (Schizopolybothrus) spiniger</taxonomicName>
as a species of uncertain taxonomic status, presuming it to be a possible senior synonym of
<taxonomicName lsidName="E. caesar" pageId="4" pageNumber="15" rank="species" species="caesar">E. caesar</taxonomicName>
(Verhoeff, 1899), and emphasizing the importance of the examination of the type material. Having now the opportunity to examine the types of
<taxonomicName lsidName="E. spiniger" pageId="4" pageNumber="15" rank="species" species="spiniger">E. spiniger</taxonomicName>
, we were able to compare it directly with
<taxonomicName lsidName="E. caesar" pageId="4" pageNumber="15" rank="species" species="caesar">E. caesar</taxonomicName>
and conclude that the species is valid, differing from
<taxonomicName lsidName="E. caesar" pageId="4" pageNumber="15" rank="species" species="caesar">E. caesar</taxonomicName>
in several morphological traits, notably the distinctive sub-triangular projections on tergite 14 (see Table 2, Fig. 8H).
</paragraph>
<caption pageId="4" pageNumber="15">
<paragraph pageId="4" pageNumber="15">
Table 2. Comparison of standard taxonomic characters in six species of
<taxonomicName class="Chilopoda" family="Lithobiidae" genus="Eupolybothrus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" infraspecific-rank="subgenus" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Eupolybothrus (Schizopolybothrus)" order="Lithobiomorpha" pageId="4" pageNumber="15" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="subGenus" subGenus="Schizopolybothrus">Eupolybothrus subgenus Schizopolybothrus</taxonomicName>
.
</paragraph>
</caption>
<paragraph pageId="4" pageNumber="15">
<table pageId="4" pageNumber="15">
<tr pageId="4" pageNumber="15">
<th colspan="1" pageId="4" pageNumber="15" rowspan="1">
<taxonomicName lsidName="E. liburnicus" pageId="4" pageNumber="15" rank="species" species="liburnicus">E. liburnicus</taxonomicName>
sp. n.
</th>
<th colspan="1" pageId="4" pageNumber="15" rowspan="1">
<taxonomicName lsidName="E. leostygis" pageId="4" pageNumber="15" rank="species" species="leostygis">E. leostygis</taxonomicName>
</th>
<th colspan="1" pageId="4" pageNumber="15" rowspan="1">
<taxonomicName lsidName="E. caesar" pageId="4" pageNumber="15" rank="species" species="caesar">E. caesar</taxonomicName>
</th>
<th colspan="1" pageId="4" pageNumber="15" rowspan="1">
<taxonomicName lsidName="L. spiniger" pageId="4" pageNumber="15" rank="species" species="spiniger">L. spiniger</taxonomicName>
</th>
<th colspan="1" pageId="4" pageNumber="15" rowspan="1">
<taxonomicName lsidName="E. cavernicolus" pageId="4" pageNumber="15" rank="species" species="cavernicolus">E. cavernicolus</taxonomicName>
</th>
<th colspan="1" pageId="4" pageNumber="15" rowspan="1">
<taxonomicName lsidName="E. wardaranus" pageId="4" pageNumber="15" rank="species" species="wardaranus">E. wardaranus</taxonomicName>
</th>
</tr>
<tr pageId="4" pageNumber="15">
<th colspan="1" pageId="4" pageNumber="15" rowspan="1">Holotype</th>
<th colspan="1" pageId="4" pageNumber="15" rowspan="1">Lectotype</th>
<th colspan="1" pageId="4" pageNumber="15" rowspan="1">Syntype male</th>
</tr>
<tr pageId="4" pageNumber="15">
<th colspan="1" pageId="4" pageNumber="15" rowspan="1">(CHP545)</th>
<th colspan="1" pageId="4" pageNumber="15" rowspan="1">(NHMW1463)</th>
<th colspan="1" pageId="4" pageNumber="15" rowspan="1">(Nr. A 200500641)</th>
</tr>
<tr pageId="4" pageNumber="15">
<td colspan="3" pageId="4" pageNumber="15" rowspan="1">Body length (mm)</td>
</tr>
<tr pageId="4" pageNumber="15">
<td colspan="1" pageId="4" pageNumber="15" rowspan="8">Head</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="4" pageNumber="15" rowspan="1">Cephalic plate</td>
</tr>
<tr pageId="4" pageNumber="15">
<td colspan="1" pageId="4" pageNumber="15" rowspan="2">Antennae</td>
</tr>
<tr pageId="4" pageNumber="15">
<td colspan="1" pageId="4" pageNumber="15" rowspan="2">Ocelli</td>
</tr>
<tr pageId="4" pageNumber="15">
<td colspan="1" pageId="4" pageNumber="15" rowspan="2">Coxosternum</td>
</tr>
<tr pageId="4" pageNumber="15">
<td colspan="1" pageId="4" pageNumber="15" rowspan="1">Ca.</td>
</tr>
<tr pageId="4" pageNumber="15">
<td colspan="1" pageId="4" pageNumber="15" rowspan="1">Clypeus</td>
</tr>
<tr pageId="4" pageNumber="15">
<td colspan="1" pageId="4" pageNumber="15" rowspan="4">Coxal pores number/rows</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="4" pageNumber="15" rowspan="1">12th coxa</td>
</tr>
<tr pageId="4" pageNumber="15">
<td colspan="1" pageId="4" pageNumber="15" rowspan="1">13th coxa</td>
</tr>
<tr pageId="4" pageNumber="15">
<td colspan="1" pageId="4" pageNumber="15" rowspan="1">14th coxa</td>
</tr>
<tr pageId="4" pageNumber="15">
<td colspan="1" pageId="4" pageNumber="15" rowspan="1">15th coxa</td>
</tr>
<tr pageId="4" pageNumber="15">
<td colspan="1" pageId="4" pageNumber="15" rowspan="7">Ultimate legs</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="4" pageNumber="15" rowspan="1">Coxa</td>
</tr>
<tr pageId="4" pageNumber="15">
<td colspan="1" pageId="4" pageNumber="15" rowspan="1">Prefemur</td>
</tr>
<tr pageId="4" pageNumber="15">
<td colspan="1" pageId="4" pageNumber="15" rowspan="1">Femur</td>
</tr>
<tr pageId="4" pageNumber="15">
<td colspan="1" pageId="4" pageNumber="15" rowspan="1">Tibia</td>
</tr>
<tr pageId="4" pageNumber="15">
<td colspan="1" pageId="4" pageNumber="15" rowspan="1">Tarsus 1</td>
</tr>
<tr pageId="4" pageNumber="15">
<td colspan="1" pageId="4" pageNumber="15" rowspan="1">Tarsus 2</td>
</tr>
<tr pageId="4" pageNumber="15">
<td colspan="1" pageId="4" pageNumber="15" rowspan="1">Pretarsus</td>
</tr>
<tr pageId="4" pageNumber="15">
<td colspan="3" pageId="4" pageNumber="15" rowspan="1">Antenna/body (%)</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="4" pageNumber="15" rowspan="1">Ca.</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="4" pageNumber="15" rowspan="1">Ca.</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="4" pageNumber="15" rowspan="1">Ca.</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="4" pageNumber="15" rowspan="1">Ca.</td>
</tr>
<tr pageId="4" pageNumber="15">
<td colspan="3" pageId="4" pageNumber="15" rowspan="1">Ultimate leg length</td>
</tr>
<tr pageId="4" pageNumber="15">
<td colspan="3" pageId="4" pageNumber="15" rowspan="1">Ultimate legs/body length</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="4" pageNumber="15" rowspan="1">Ca.</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="4" pageNumber="15" rowspan="1">Ca.</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="4" pageNumber="15" rowspan="1">Ca.</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="4" pageNumber="15" rowspan="1">Ca.</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="4" pageNumber="15" rowspan="1">Ca.</td>
<td colspan="1" pageId="4" pageNumber="15" rowspan="1">Ca.</td>
</tr>
<tr pageId="4" pageNumber="15">
<td colspan="3" pageId="4" pageNumber="15" rowspan="1">Setae on intermediate tergite</td>
</tr>
</table>
</paragraph>
</subSubSection>
</treatment>
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