An unusually elongate endogeic centipede from Sardinia (Chilopoda: Geophilidae) Author Bonato, Lucio Dipartimento di Biologia, Università di Padova, via Ugo Bassi 58 B, I- 35131 Padova, Italy. & Corresponding author: lucio. bonato @ unipd. it lucio.bonato@unipd.it Author Zapparoli, Marzio Dipartimento per la Innovazione nei sistemi Biologici, Agroalimentari e Forestali (DIBAF), Università della Tuscia, via S. Camillo de Lellis s. n. c., I- 01100 Viterbo, Italy. & E-mail: zapparol @ unitus. it Author Drago, Leandro Dipartimento di Biologia, Università di Padova, via Ugo Bassi 58 B, I- 35131 Padova, Italy. & E-mail: leandro. drago 1 @ gmail. com Author Minelli, Alessandro Dipartimento di Biologia, Università di Padova, via Ugo Bassi 58 B, I- 35131 Padova, Italy. & E-mail: alessandro. minelli @ unipd. it text European Journal of Taxonomy 2016 2016-09-21 231 1 19 journal article 21886 10.5852/ejt.2016.231 2cb435ee-3255-4960-a7b3-ed95a54adf8f 2118-9773 3840445 4C501A9D-C90B-4132-BD07-C71A9076E7D0 Endogeophilus gen. nov. urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: 0904F67C-219A-459F-A121-3D0C7E47D469 Figs 1–4 ; Table 1 Type species Endogeophilus ichnusae gen. et sp. nov. Diagnosis Geophilids with body almost uniform in width, only slightly tapering at both ends; head slightly longer than wide; clypeus uniformly areolate, without clypeal areas; intermediate part of the labrum bearing a few tubercles; labral side-parts distinct from the clypeus, well separated from each other, their posterior margin with bristles; first maxillae with bi-articulated telopodites and two pairs of short lappets; second maxillary coxosternite with long isthmus, without inner processes, and lacking distinctly sclerotized ridges; second maxillary telopodites composed of three articles, bearing a simple, sub-conic claw; forcipular tergite sub-trapezoid, posteriorly about as wide as the subsequent tergite, the lateral margins distinctly converging anteriorly; forcipular coxosternite slightly wider than long, without anterior denticles, chitin-lines complete, coxopleural sutures complete and distinctly diverging anteriorly; forcipules stout and strongly tapering, with two distinct intermediate articles: forcipular tarsungula abruptly narrowing, relatively short and only weakly curved, with a single small basal denticle; carpophagus pits shallow; leg-bearing segments with a sub-ovoid/sub-triangular pore-field on the posterior half of each metasternite; leg claws bearing two slender accessory spines; ultimate legbearing segment with pleuropretergite entire, metasternite sub-trapezoid wider than long; coxal pores mainly opening along the ventro-internal, anterior and dorso-internal sides of the coxopleuron, with an additional isolated ventral pore; telopodites of the ultimate leg pair composed of six articles, slightly swollen in the male in comparison with the female, bearing a claw; bi-articulated gonopods in the male, short gonopodal lamina in the female; a pair of anal pores. Differential characters with respect to the most similar genera are given in Table 1 . Etymology Composed of the prefix “endo-”, from the classic Greek ενδον (inside), and the genus name Geophilus , which is from the classic Greek prefix γεω- (earth) and φιλέω (to love), referring to the endogeic habitat. The gender of the genus name is masculine.