The Caucasus as a major hotspot of biodiversity: Evidence from the millipede family Anthroleucosomatidae (Diplopoda, Chordeumatida)
Author
Antić, Dragan Ž.
Author
Makarov, Slobodan E.
text
Zootaxa
2016
4211
1
1
205
journal article
37322
10.11646/zootaxa.4211.1.1
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1175-5326
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The
Alloiopus
complex
This complex includes two genera with 30 body segments in adults (including telson): the monotypic genus
Alloiopus
Attems, 1951
and the genus
Golovatchosoma
gen. nov.
with two species. Both genera are characterized by the presence of well-developed, two-segmented and robust, setose telopodites of the posterior gonopods, and as such they fail to occur in the other Caucasian complexes of anthroleucosomatids.
Mauriès
et al
. (1997)
put
Alloiopus
in the same group together with the genera
Persedicus
Mauriès, 1982
(now
Metamastigophorophyllon
) and
Ghilarovia
Gulička, 1972
. This opinion was followed by
Tabacaru and Giurginca (2005)
and
Ćurčić
et al
. (2008)
in that all these three genera were assigned to the
Alloiopus
complex, but, according to the gonopod structure, neither
Persedicus
(now
Metamastigophorophyllon
) nor
Ghilarovia
actually belongs to the
Alloiopus
complex, while
Ghilarovia
does not seem to represent the
Anthroleucosomatidae
at all.