A review of the cavernicolous Trichopolydesmidae (Diplopoda, Polydesmida) from the Carpathian-Balkan arch and the Rhodope Mountains, with descriptions of two new genera and three new species Author Antic, Dragan https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1231-4213 University of Belgrade-Faculty of Biology, Institute of Zoology, Studentski trg 16, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia & Serbian Biospeleological Society, Trg Dositeja Obradovica 2, 21000 Novi Sad, Serbia dragan.antic@bio.bg.ac.rs Author Vagalinski, Boyan Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2 Yurii Gagarin Street, 1113, Sofia, Bulgaria Author Stoev, Pavel https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5702-5677 National Museum of Natural History, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Tsar Osvoboditel Blvd. 1, Sofia 1000, Bulgaria & Pensoft Publishers, Sofia, Bulgaria Author Akkari, Nesrine https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5019-4833 3 text ZooKeys 2022 2022-04-19 1097 1 46 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1097.83916 journal article http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1097.83916 1313-2970-1097-1 66F17436DF364FFDB2D3021F14D40D62 6593D2730A295F46B63A738B12E43A22 Genus Banatodesmus Tabacaru, 1980 Type species. Trichopolydesmus (Banatodesmus) jeanneli Tabacaru, 1980, by monotypy. Diagnosis. Different from other European Trichopolydesmidae by the presence of an enlarged, oval, paddle-like solenomere (s in Fig. 4 ), with an additional, small, claw-like, distal solenomeral process (dsp in Fig. 4 ). In addition, the diagnosis can be amended with the following combination of characters: medium-sized species (7-7.5 mm), 20 body rings (including telson), rings with 4-6 irregular rows of long trichoid metatergal setae, sensilla basiconica completely enclosed inside the pit of antennomere 6, hypoproct with only two long distal setae, paraprocts with only 2+2 long setae, gonopod acropodite divided into two branches, solenophore (sph in Fig. 4 ) with three processes, of which the longest is S-shaped (broken off in the SEM image).