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 troglokabyliana Golovatch & Mauriès , sp. n. urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: 36F30A02-E19F-4B99-8468-B75A52A771EC Fig. 1 Type material. Algeria , Algiers, “dept. Alger ”, Michelet-Djurdjura road, Azerou Tidjer , entrance of Ifri Mareb Cave , 19.XI.1912 , leg. P. de Peyerimhoff ( Biospeologica 704A), holotype ♁ (MNHN CC 165), paratypes : 2 ♁, 3 ♀ , 8 juv. (MNHN CC 165). Same locality, Azerou Tidjer, Ifri bou-Amane Cave, 19.XI.1912 , leg. P. de Peyerimhoff (Biospeologica 706), paratypes : 1 ♁, 2 ♀ (ZMUM). Same locality, 29.VII.1913 , leg. P. de Peyerimhoff (Biospeologica 707), paratypes : 6 ♁, juv. ♁, 23 ♀ , juv. ♀ (MNHN CC 165), 1 ♁, 1 ♀ (ZMUC), 3 ♀ (NMNH), 3 ♀ (FMNH), 3 ♀ (NHMW 7779). Same locality, Michelet-Djurdjura road, douar Aït-Boudrar, Anou Tahalouant Cave , 11.VII.1914 , leg. P. de Peyerimhoff (Biospeologica 710), 1 ♁ (MNHN CC 165) . Algeria , “dept. Alger”, Bouïra , douar Haïzer , Ifri Yacoub Cave , 30.X.1912 , leg. P. de Peyerimhoff ( Biospeologica 915), paratypes : 3 ♁, 5 ♀ , 7 juv. (MNHN CC 165) . Algeria , “dept. Alger”, douar Ben-bou-Ouakour , canton Beni Mansour Maillot , n’Tarzout Cave , 8.III.1914 , leg. P. de Peyerimhoff ( Biospeologica 906), 1 ♀ (MNHN CC 165) . Name : To emphasize the provenance of material from caves in the High Kabylia, Algeria . Diagnosis : Differs from all congeners except G. albida Mauriès & Vicente, 1978 and G. monostriata sp. n. in the clear troglomorphy (in particular, the lack of pigmentation), coupled with two striae crossing the collum and 1-2 striae crossing the thoracic shield, and usually with (6)7+1 ocelli. Description : Length of extended adults of both sexes ranging between 13.5-14.0 (♁) and 15.0- 17.5 mm ( ♀ ), width 3.4-4.2 (♁) and 5.0- 5.8 mm ( ♀ ), body broadest at thoracic shield. Holotype ca 13.5 mm long and 3.65 mm wide (extended), or ca 9.5 and 3.5 mm , respectively (unextended). Juveniles with 12 segments (like adults) and 5 ocelli, ca 4.8 mm long and 2.2 mm wide. Juveniles with 11 segments and 5 ocelli, ca 4.5 mm long and 2.2 mm wide. Juveniles with 10 segments and 3 ocelli, ca 3.4 mm long and 1.75 mm wide. Juveniles with 8 or 9 segments and 2-3 ocelli, ca 2.7-2.8 mm long and 1.13-1.40 mm wide. Coloration entirely pallid. Head usual, transverse; Tömösváry’s organ transversely oval, strongly elongate ( Fig. 1A ); antennae long, antennomere 6 longest, 2.5-2.8 times longer than wide ( Fig. 1B ); ocelli usually 7+1, rather convex but usually transparent and thus poorly visible ( Fig. 1A ), only rarely pigmented (5+1 or 6+1 grey ocelli in ♁♁ from Anou Tahalouant and n’Tarzout caves, respectively). Collum with two transverse striae. Thoracic shield with a narrow hyposchism reaching the caudal tergal contour ( Fig. 1C ); 3-4 transverse striae, of which 1-2 anterior, starting well in front of schism, crossing entire dorsum, while the others, starting just above schism, are abbreviated ( Fig. 1C ). Tergal surface very finely punctate. Terga 3 and 4 rather broadly rounded laterally, tergum 3 being only slightly narrower ( Fig. 1C ). Tergal pilosity and mid-dorsal sinuosity lacking. Pygidium usually with a completely regularly rounded caudal margin, only rarely extremely faintly sinuated medially at margin. ♁ leg 17 ( Fig. 1D ) with a medium-sized, regularly rounded, outer coxal lobe; telopodite 4-segmented. ♁ leg 18 ( Fig. 1E ) with a broadly ogival syncoxital notch; telopodite 4-segmented. Telopods ( Figs 1F, G ) with a rather high, regularly rounded, bare, central syncoxital lobe flanked by two setose horns, each crowned with a very small bulb and a long, setiform filament. Femur with a large caudomedial outgrowth, subquadrate at base. Tibia with a caudomedial unciform process. Tarsus rather broadly rounded apically. Figure 1. Glomeris troglokabyliana sp. n. , ♁ paratype ; A , left part of head showing ocelli and Tömösváry’s organ, dorsal view; B , antenna, lateral view; C , thoracic shield and terga 3 & 4, lateral view; D , leg 17; E , leg 18; F, G , leg 19 (telopod), caudal and frontal views, respectively. – Scale bar: 0.3 mm (D-G); drawn not to scale (A-C). Remarks : This species is the only clearly troglomorphic congener to be reported from Algeria . It is noteworthy that some specimens show rudimentary pigmentation of the ocelli. Based on the shape of tergum 3, this new species can be regarded as somewhat intermediate between the “ Stenopleuromeris ” and “ Eurypleuromeris ” types , although closer to the former.