The millipede genus Leucogeorgia Verhoeff, 1930 in the Caucasus, with descriptions of eleven new species, erection of a new monotypic genus and notes on the tribe Leucogeorgiini (Diplopoda: Julida: Julidae)
Author
Antić, Dragan Ž.
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University of Belgrade - Faculty of Biology, Institute of Zoology, Studentski Trg 16, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia. Serbian Biospeleological Society, Trg Dositeja Obradovića 2, 21000 Novi Sad, Serbia. Department of Soil Zoology, Senckenberg Museum of Natural History Görlitz, Am Museum 1, 02826 Görlitz, Germany. Thüringer Höhlenverein e. V., Johann-Sebastian-Bach-Str. 16 a, 98529 Suhl, Germany.
dragan.antic@bio.bg.ac.rs
Author
Reip, Hans S.
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reip@myriapoden-info.de
text
European Journal of Taxonomy
2020
2020-09-07
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1
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journal article
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10.5852/ejt.2020.713
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Genus
Leucogeorgia
Verhoeff, 1930
Leucogeorgia
Verhoeff, 1930: 33
(name regarded as a feminine noun).
Archileucogeorgia
Lohmander, 1936: 99
.
Syn. nov.
(
type
species:
A. abchasica
Lohmander, 1936
, by original designation).
Type
species
Leucogeorgia longipes
Verhoeff, 1930
(by monotypy).
Diagnosis
Differs from other members of the tribe
Leucogeorgiini
(see Discussion for the tribe composition), except
Martvilia
gen. nov.
, by the deep division of the opisthomere into two branches. It can easily be distinguished from
Martvilia
gen. nov.
by the presence of a mesomeral lamella attached just below the mesomere claw (vs mesomere almost free, with basally attached lamella in
Martvilia
gen. nov.
).
Included species
Leucogeorgia abchasica
(
Lohmander, 1936
)
comb. nov.
(ex
Archileucogeorgia
)
Leucogeorgia longipes
Verhoeff, 1930
Leucogeorgia rediviva
Golovatch, 1983
Leucogeorgia satunini
(
Lohmander, 1936
)
comb. nov.
(ex
Archileucogeorgia
)
New species without modified mouthparts
Leucogeorgia borealis
sp. nov.
Leucogeorgia gioi
sp. nov.
Leucogeorgia golovatchi
sp. nov.
Leucogeorgia lobata
sp. nov.
Leucogeorgia oculata
sp. nov.
Leucogeorgia prometheus
sp. nov.
New species with modified mouthparts
Leucogeorgia caudata
sp. nov.
Leucogeorgia mystax
sp. nov.
Leucogeorgia profunda
sp. nov.
Leucogeorgia redivivoides
sp. nov.
Leucogeorgia turbanovi
sp. nov.