The millipede genus Megaphyllum Verhoeff, 1894 in the Balkan Peninsula, with description of new species (Myriapoda: Diplopoda: Julida: Julidae)
Author
Lazányi, Eszter
Author
Vagalinski, Boyan
Author
Korsós, Zoltán
text
Zootaxa
2012
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1
47
journal article
45270
10.5281/zenodo.214875
6bae682e-cbd9-4e6a-a4af-e6c1fda188fb
1175-5326
214875
Megaphyllum brachyurum thassensis
Mauriès, 1985
Megaphyllum (Omobrachyiulus) brachyurum thassensis
Mauriès, 1985
: 56
–57.
Megaphyllum brachyurum
:
Enghoff & Kime 2009
.
Distribution in the Balkans.
Greece
: Thasos Island, Panagia, Drakotrypa cave (
type
locality) (
Mauriès 1985
).
World distribution.
Endemic subspecies to the island of Thasos (Aegean Islands, Thracian Sea)
Greece
.
Remarks.
The nominotypical subspecies is distributed in
Azerbaidjan
(
Attems 1899
),
Georgia
(
Lohmander 1936
), and
Turkey
(
Enghoff 2006
),
M. b. dagestanus
Lohmander, 1936
also lives outside the Balkans, in Daghestan and the Russian Caucasus.