The millipede genus Glomeris Latreille, 1802 (Diplopoda, Glomerida, Glomeridae) in North Africa Author Golovatch, Sergei Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia Author Mauriès, Jean-Paul urn:lsid:zoobank.org:author: Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Département Systématique et Evolution, Section Arthropodes, Paris, France & D 362 Dc 0 - & CC & - BD Author Akkari, Nesrine urn:lsid:zoobank.org:author: Institut Supérieur des Sciences Biologiques Appliquées de Tunis, Tunis, Tunisia & - 42 F & A 66 B 46 A 10 F & - Author Stoev, Pavel National Museum of Natural History, Sofia, Bulgaria & A & BC & EE Author Geoffroy, Jean-Jacques Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Département Ecologie & Gestion de la Biodiversité, UMR 7179 du CNRS, Equipe EVOLTRAIT, Brunoy, France & - 415 D-Bc 54 - 86256 E & D & D & - A 726 - 3104291 Bbed text ZooKeys 2009 2009-06-18 12 12 47 86 journal article 10.3897/zookeys.12.179 98d46a53-c342-4e19-b613-8300c3ad56d1 1313–2970 576461 40AE4755-F076-4CCD-81CF-F14F318E4FFE Glomeris colorata Golovatch, Mauriès, Akkari & Stoev , sp. n. urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: 672AFB57-3269-4D2C-89FB-BCDAA16D3DFC Figs 3-5 Type material. Tunisia , Siliana Gov., Jebel Sidi Aouidet ( 47 km from Siliana , road El Fahs-Siliana ), 36°15’81″N, 9°46.46″E, alt. approx. 440 m , slope overgrown by conifers close to road, under stones, leaf litter, 28.III.2008 , leg. P. Stoev and N. Akkari , holotype ♁ (MNHN CC 167), paratypes : 3 ♀ (MNHN CC 167), 2 ♀ (ZMUM), 1 ♀ (NMNH), 1 ♀ (ZMUC) . Tunisia , Zaghouan Gov., Jebel Mansour , near Sidi Aouidet Village , 36°12’31″N , 9°45’59″E , alt. approx. 510 m . Pinus forest with Rosmarinus officinalis bushes, under stones and leaf litter, 28.III.2008 , leg. N. Akkari and P. Stoev , paratypes : 6 ♀ (FMNH), 4 ♁, 1 ♀ (NMNH) . Name : To emphasize the colourful tergal pattern. Diagnosis : Especially similar to G. punica and G. flavomaculata , based on the characteristic colour pattern (2+2 rows of spots on terga 2-11), but differs in the presence of a light axial line, of medially coalesced 1+1 spots on the pygidium and the lighter background coloration. Figure 3. Glomeris colorata sp. n. , ♀ paratype from Tunisia, Siliana Gov.; habitus, dorsal view. (Photographed not to scale by I. Muratov). Description : Length of adults of both sexes (extended, alcohol material) ranging between 9.5 (♁) and 10.0- 13.5 mm ( ♀ ), width between 4.7 (♁) and 5.0- 6.7 mm ( ♀ ); body broadest at thoracic shield. Holotype ca 9.5 mm long and 4.7 mm wide. Coloration ( Figs 3 , 4 ) variegated, mostly rather vivid, background usually dark brown, but sometimes mostly yellow due to expanded light spots. Head mostly light brown, evidently marbled near ocelli, with 1+1 and 2+2 small pallid spots against a light brown background just above antennal sockets; labrum pale yellowish; antennae largely dark brown, only tip pallid. Collum with a large, mostly marbled, yellowish central spot ( Figs 3 , 4 ). Thoracic shield with 2+2 large light spots, sometimes interconnected with a transversely oval marbled area in-between, but separated by a more or less evident, often incomplete, light axial line. Subsequent terga, except pygidium, with 1+1 more or less wide, light paramedian spots, usually arranged into clear stripes, a mostly interrupted and sometimes vague, light, axial line, and a pair of marbled, transversely oval, lateral areas. Pygidium with 1+1 light, paramedian, mostly coalesced spots ( Fig. 4 ), less frequently nearly entirely light grey-brown. Venter and legs contrastingly light yellow. Head usual, transverse; Tömösváry’s organ transversely oval, slightly shorter than in G. troglokabyliana sp. n. ; antennae long, antennomere 6 longest, 2.4-2.5 times long- er than wide; ocelli (4)5 black + 1 transparent, all convex. Collum with two transverse striae. Thoracic shield with a narrow hyposchism almost reaching caudal tergal contour ( Fig. 5A ); four transverse striae, of which 1-2 anteriormost starting well in front of Figure 4. Glomeris colorata sp. n. , ♁ holotype; A , habitus, dorsal view; B , pygidium, caudal view. A schematic, slightly too bright presentation of the colour pattern (del. J.-P. Mauriès). schism and crossing entire dorsum, the other two always abbreviated ( Fig. 5A ); anteriormost stria only rarely slightly interrupted dorsally. Tergum 3 relatively narrowly ( Fig. 5A ) and tergum 4 broadly rounded laterally. Tergal pilosity and mid-dorsal sinuosity absent. Pygidium usually with a completely regularly rounded caudal margin, only rarely extremely faintly sinuated medially at margin. ♁ leg 17 ( Fig. 5B ) with a low outer coxal lobe; telopodite 4-segmented. ♁ leg 18 ( Fig. 5C ) with a broadly subtriangular syncoxital notch; telopodite 4-segmented. Telopods ( Figs 5D ) with a high, rather regularly rounded, bare, central syncoxital lobe flanked by two setose horns, latter each crowned with a minute bulb and a short setoid filament. Tarsus quite narrowly rounded apically. Remarks : Based on the narrow tergum 3, G. colorata sp. n. can be attributed to the “ Stenopleuromeris ” type .