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 beroni
(
Strasser, 1973
)
Chromatoiulus (Chromatoiulus) beroni
Strasser, 1973
: 444
–446, 455 and 460,
Figs 49–51
.
Chromatoiulus beroni
:
Ceuca 1992
: 425
.
Megaphyllum beroni
:
Vagalinski & Stoev 2007
: 48
;
Enghoff & Kime 2009
.
Distribution in the Balkans.
Bulgaria
: Rhodope Mts.: Dyavolskoto Garlo Cave near Trigrad (
type
locality) (
Vagalinski & Stoev 2007
).
World distribution.
Endemic to the Rhodope Mts.,
Bulgaria
.
Remarks.
Though known only from a cave, this species is regarded as trogloxene, having no evident troglobiotic adaptations. Thorough searching of the cave did not result in a second finding of
beroni
, thus it could have been an accidental shelter in the cave of a very rare, endemic surface species (
Beron 1994
).