A new millipede genus and species of the tribe Pachyiulini from the Caucasus (Diplopoda, Julida, Julidae)
Author
Evsyukov, Aleksandr P.
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5521-7563
Don State Technical University, Department of Biology and General Pathology, Rostov-on-Don, Russia
aevsukov@mail.ru
Author
Vagalinski, Boyan
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4661-8952
Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria
Author
Zabiyaka, Igor Y.
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6759-549X
Don State Technical University, Research and Education Center " Materials ", Rostov-on-Don, Russia
Author
Sadyrin, Evgeniy V.
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5395-3310
Don State Technical University, Research and Education Center " Materials ", Rostov-on-Don, Russia
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ZooKeys
2022
2022-04-19
1097
47
63
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1097.81792
journal article
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1097.81792
1313-2970-1097-47
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Genus
Bellatoiulus
gen. nov.
Type species.
Bellatoiulus golovatchi
gen. et sp. nov., by present designation.
Diagnosis.
A genus of the julid tribe
Pachyiulini
, distinguished from all contribal genera by the unique presence of a lateral process on the opisthomere, as well as by the following combination of gonopodal and external somatic characters: promere with mesal ridge distally extending in a strong process, caudal face without apical denticles/ridges; opisthomere without anterior and caudal lamellae or these being vestigial, mesomeral process well-differentiated, crest-like, solenomere with a deep and narrow apical fovea; ommatidia absent, mandibular stipites in males not expanded, vertigial and metazonal setae present, pre-anal ring with an epiproct.
Name.
Derived from the Latin
bellator
meaning
"soldier"
,
"warrior"
, after the remarkably
"armed"
appearance of the gonopods including the club-like mesal and lateral processes of the promere and the opisthomere, respectively, and the apically serrated mesomeral process; plus
Julus
, the type genus of the family
Julidae
. Masculine.