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simplex
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Figs 7-17
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<paragraph id="608D8F7294D8E0AB944344D09A8EED1C" pageId="4" pageNumber="67">Type material.</paragraph>
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Holotype ♂ (NMNHS), Greece, Kithnos Island, village Dryopis near
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, Cave Katafyki, 08.05.1987, leg. P. Beron.
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Paratypes: 1 ♂, 4 ♀♀, 1 ♂ subadult (19 body segments), 2 fragments (NMNHS) + 1 ♂, 1 ♀ (ZMUM), same locality, together with holotype; 1 ♂, 1 ♀, 1 ♀ fragment (head and first 12 body segments) (NMNHS), Greece, Chios Island, village Haghios Galos (Agiongalas, Haghia Gala), 65 km from town of Chios, Cave
<taxonomicName id="D3E29ED4C8EB40E97E7AA7C50F64EE50" genus="Hagiogalousaina" lsidName="Hagiogalousaina" pageId="4" pageNumber="67" rank="genus">Hagiogalousaina</taxonomicName>
, 12.05.1987, leg. P. Beron.
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<paragraph id="5B32AF20973246A4F2ABCE3AFD80DF33" pageId="4" pageNumber="67">Diagnosis.</paragraph>
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Differs from the other 30+ species of
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Attems, 1909, many of which have been reviewed by
<bibRefCitation id="3E2F321983C17749D6C7BBD065151931" author="Mauries, JP" journalOrPublisher="Bulletin du Museum national d'Histoire naturelle" pageId="11" pageNumber="74" pagination="165 - 184" title="Nouveaux micropolydesmides d'Afrique centrale: essai de rassemblement pour une revision du genre Sphaeroparia (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Fuhrmannodesmidae)." volume="18" year="1996">
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and Heymer (1996)
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, by 20 body segments in both sexes and the presence of an axial sternal process on the especially simple gonopods, including a nearly fully suppressed solenomere.
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<paragraph id="B87EE99C8178D13FE0AB14E150E02899" pageId="4" pageNumber="67">Name.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="B70AB040C0F28D648036B5B7CDAD66B6" pageId="4" pageNumber="67">To emphasize the highly simple gonopods in this species.</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="5A9F1DE926D3C149C62DBB3986978ACC" pageId="4" pageNumber="67">Description.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="D11204D669B38BAA848EF2ACBED1A03D" pageId="4" pageNumber="67">Length of adults ca 5.0-5.5 (♂) or 6.0-7.0 mm (♀), width of midbody pro- and metazona 0.55 and 0.7 mm (♂, ♀), respectively. Coloration in alcohol uniformly pallid to light yellowish (Figs 7-10).</paragraph>
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Figures 7-8. Habitus of
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sp. n., holotype, dorsal and lateral views, respectively. Photos by K. Makarov, not taken to scale.
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Figures 9, 10. Habitus of
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sp. n., ♂ paratype from Kithnos, dorsal and lateral views, respectively. Photos by K. Makarov, not taken to scale.
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<paragraph id="22D90ECC50020F00FE4954790EA08A42" pageId="4" pageNumber="67">Body with 20 segments in both sexes. Tegument generally smooth, dull, texture very delicately alveolate. Head densely pilose throughout; ♂ epicranial modifications absent, frons being regularly convex in both sexes. Antennae rather short and clavate, nearly reaching end of segment 2 (♂) or collum (♀) when stretched dorsally; antennomeres 2, 3, 5 and 6 subequal in length, but both 5th and 6th clearly the highest (height being measured from ventral to dorsal side) (Figs 11, 15); antennomeres 4-6 each with a loose, indistinct, distodorsal group of increasingly long and numerous sensilla.</paragraph>
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Figures 11-14.
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sp. n., holotype (12, 13) and ♂ paratype (11, 14) from Kithnos 11 antenna, lateral view 12 leg 9 and both gonopods, caudal view 13, 14 both gonopods, oral and ventral views, respectively. Scale bars: 11 0.2 mm; 12-14 0.1 mm.
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Figures 15-17.
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sp. n., ♂ paratype from Chios 15 antenna, lateral view 16 midbody leg 17 left gonopod, mesal view. Scale bars: 0.1 mm.
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<paragraph id="3E962B3C2747B529B26025DB439FF726" pageId="4" pageNumber="67">In width, head = segments 6-16(17)&gt; 5&gt; 4&gt; 2 = 3&gt; collum; starting from segment 17, body gradually tapering towards telson. Collum ellipsoid, lobuliform caudolaterally, like most of following metaterga with 3 transverse, rather regular rows of 3+3 setae on minute knobs until segment 16, of 4+4 setae in segments 17(18)-19. Tergal setae medium-sized, slender, bacilliform, mostly about 1/4 the length of a metatergum, a little longer only on collum and penultimate segment. Usually a very faint transverse sulcus between first 2 rows of setae. Dorsum invariably convex. Paraterga poorly developed, especially so in ♀, visible starting from collum, invariably slightly declivous, set rather high (mainly at about upper third of midbody height in both sexes), slightly, but regularly rounded laterally; lateral margin of postcollum paraterga very poorly indentate, on each side usually with 3 subequal setigerous indentations in front of a rounded caudolateral lobule, the latter increasingly well drawn caudad, but never extending behind rear tergal margin (Figs 7-10). Pore formula normal: 5, 7, 9, 10, 12, 13, 15-18(19), ozopores round, dorsal, rather indistinct, lying at base of caudolateral lobule near lateral margin. Stricture between pro- and metazona wide, shallow and smooth. Limbus very finely microspiculate. Epiproct conical, rather long. Hypoproct trapeziform.</paragraph>
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<pageBreakToken id="6CB589D5DCE05826D0FDB645ADBECA51" pageId="5" pageNumber="68" start="start">Sterna</pageBreakToken>
clearly separated, unmodified. Legs rather long and slender (Figs 8, 10, 12, 16), without modified setae, ca 1.2-1.3 (♂) or 1.0-1.1 (♀) times as long as midbody height, tarsi longest, claw short. Epigynal ridge very low, inconspicuous.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="DCA74730F8071DBA1A4C49BD977844CD" pageId="5" pageNumber="68">Gonopod aperture evident, transversely oblong-oval, taking up most of ventral part of metazonite 7. Gonopods (Figs 12-14, 17) with large, transversely subglobose, evidently exposed, medially fused, medially clearly excavate coxites, each microgranular/scaly and micropilose laterally, carrying only 1 long seta distofrontally and a long, curved cannula distomesally; sternum plate-like, with a slender, central, not too strongly chitinized process (k) between coxites. Telopodites short, stout, subglobose, sac-shaped, very simple, only moderately exposed below coxites, deeply sunken inside a prominent gonocoel; prefemoral part as usual, setose, quite elongate, about as long as, but clearly set at an angle to, acropodite, the latter with a distinct seminal groove running entirely on mesal side and terminating on a vestigial lobuliform solenomere (sl) at base of a rather strong, only faintly curved, apical spine (d). Neither an accessory seminal chamber nor a hairy pulvillus.</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="C7BC374AF8F4FDF10CE8A117220B573F" pageId="5" pageNumber="68">Remarks.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="98753F590D1652611D2733E34E9AB419" pageId="5" pageNumber="68">
This species seems to be only a troglophile, which occurs in caves on two remote islands in the Aegean Sea. On the other hand, Cave Katafyki is known to support at least two presumed troglobites, i.e. the woodlouse
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Andreev, 1986 (
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,
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,
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) (
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) and the millipede
<taxonomicName id="D571BD6141C7CAE529E08F78C81C5A1D" class="Diplopoda" family="Julidae" genus="Syrioiulus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Syrioiulus andreevi" order="Julida" pageId="5" pageNumber="68" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="andreevi">Syrioiulus andreevi</taxonomicName>
<normalizedToken id="EB114B3042D7D2CD8C756B685203C231" originalValue="Mauriès">Mauries</normalizedToken>
, 1984 (
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,
<taxonomicName id="65BF3BF13F5452A37E92996FB63FB419" genus="Julida" lsidName="Julida" pageId="5" pageNumber="68" rank="genus">Julida</taxonomicName>
,
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) (
<bibRefCitation id="3672744680F2C50B2F263086C46C05B9" author="Mauries, JP" journalOrPublisher="Biologia Gallo-Hellenica" pageId="11" pageNumber="74" pagination="37 - 49" title="Deux especes nouvelles de Diplopodes cavernicoles des Cyclades: Hyleoglomeris beroni (Glomerida) et Syrioiulus andreevi (Iulida)." volume="11" year="1984">
<normalizedToken id="22771FFB7600272E4A29AE6941605811" originalValue="Mauriès">Mauries</normalizedToken>
1984
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), while Cave
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hosts the presumed troglobitic false-scorpion
<taxonomicName id="A39FE068DC40C0BD7523F5C07FC63808" class="Arachnida" family="Chthoniidae" genus="Chthonius" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Chthonius chius" order="Pseudoscorpiones" pageId="5" pageNumber="68" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="chius">Chthonius chius</taxonomicName>
Schawaller, 1990 (
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,
<taxonomicName id="E81627CA715BE55A7147FACAC58FDDB8" class="Arachnida" family="Chthoniidae" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="" order="Pseudoscorpiones" pageId="5" pageNumber="68" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="family">Chthoniidae</taxonomicName>
) (
<bibRefCitation id="C1C6F1C51F2FEE8C2EC435ACCBA227E6" author="Harvey, MS" journalOrPublisher="ZooKeys" pageId="11" pageNumber="74" title="Pseudoscorpions of the World, version 1.1. Western Australian Museum, Perth." url="http://www.museum.wa.gov.au/arachnids/pseudoscorpions/" year="2008">Harvey 2008</bibRefCitation>
) and the millipede
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Golovatch, 2013 (
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,
<taxonomicName id="D18E8B49F36674AEA443A7EF5F22059B" genus="Glomerida" lsidName="Glomerida" pageId="5" pageNumber="68" rank="genus">Glomerida</taxonomicName>
,
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) (
<bibRefCitation id="43F4160A1AC340EF87FD0E9CC112B9F9" pageId="5" pageNumber="68">Golovatch in press</bibRefCitation>
).
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="8720E3CADA8CF0146DA688ACF1206F7B" pageId="5" pageNumber="68">
The discovery of a
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in the Aegean region is even more remarkable than that of a
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. Indeed,
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is a rather large genus hitherto believed to be strictly Afrotropical, ranging from Liberia and Benin in western Africa, through Gabon and Zaire, to Kenya and Tanzania in eastern Africa (see review by
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and Heymer 1996
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). Furthermore, it has been assigned to the large pantropical family
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(
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,
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and Heymer 1996
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), as opposed to the Holarctic
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, the Nearctic
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(often referred to as only a subfamily of
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), and the Euro-Mediterranean
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. The
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has long been considered as an artificial, composite group (e.g.
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,
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and Heymer 1996
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,
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), being distinguished from the above allies solely by its being tropical.
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="CA0409AC894E6E20768FB1AE8F979C91" lastPageId="6" lastPageNumber="69" pageId="5" pageNumber="68">
<bibRefCitation id="739BBDCDB317E981D549048552BF0EC6" author="Golovatch, SI" journalOrPublisher="Amazoniana" pageId="11" pageNumber="74" pagination="131 - 161" title="Further new Fuhrmannodesmidae from the environs of Manaus, Central Amazonia, Brazil, with a revision of Cryptogonodesmus Silvestri, 1898 (Diplopoda, Polydesmida)." volume="13" year="1994">Golovatch (1994)</bibRefCitation>
provided an evolutionary scenario for the genera of
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known from South America, accepting as the basalmost those genera showing rather small, subglobose gonopod coxae that form no significant gonocoel in which to hinge the largely exposed, usually rather simple and elongate telopodites. Moreover, as in some true
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(see above), the prefemoral (= setose) part of the gonopod is mostly orientated transversely to the body axis, extending mesally across the entire width of the coxae. Following a series of transitional states, such forms ultimately culminate in having the gonopod coxae strongly enlarged, forming a large gonocoel in which to conceal the clearly shortened, usually highly complex
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deeply sunken telopodites. Their prefemoral parts already tend to be positioned increasingly parallel to the
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main axis, thus providing a transition between the usually small-sized
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(= so-called
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) to the normally medium- to large-sized
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(= so-called
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).
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Naturally, similar general trends can be surmised to have occurred in the fuhrmannodesmids of Central America and the Afrotropical and Oriental realms, which also support fairly diverse faunas of this family. Remarkably, none of the genera of
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(see above), all confined to Europe and the Mediterranean, though demonstrating a certain degree of variation in the length and orientation of the gonopod prefemoral part, has a deep gonocoel. Furthermore,
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as one of the few genera where the gonocoxae are particularly small while the prefemoral part is still elongate, but already strictly coaxial with a very strongly exposed acropodite represents an evolutionary extreme, apparently the basalmost situation. The discovery of a
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in the eastern Mediterranean, of an Afrotropical genus demonstrating a very large and deep gonocoel for the small and only poorly exposed telopodites to be hinged into, clearly represents the opposite, evolutionarily obviously the most advanced extreme. Therefore, the Euro-Mediterranean
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appear to show basically the same full range of evolutionary trends in the development of gonopod structures as do at least the properly assessed South American representatives now assigned to
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! Among the Afrotropical
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,
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is certainly the most speciose genus and
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and Heymer (1996)
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divide it into as many as six subgenera, most of which they themselves admit to be ill-grounded. A
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species is likely to be present also in the Seychelles (
<bibRefCitation id="781AB4492AC338CDDD2B396AB29136DF" author="Golovatch, SI" editor="Gerlach, J" journalOrPublisher="Siri Scientific Press, Manchester" pageId="11" pageNumber="74" pagination="387 - 402" title="Class Diplopoda De Blainville in Gervais, 1844." year="2010">Golovatch and Gerlach 2010</bibRefCitation>
). In contrast to the Euro-Mediterranean region, the Afrotropical realm is thus dominated by trichopolydesmoids showing a deep gonocoel between strongly hypertrophied gonopod coxae. Only
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Attems, 1907, the type and still sole species of
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Attems, 1907, shows a far more basal gonopod structure quite comparable to that of
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. That species was originally described from near Buitenzorg (= Bogor), Java, Indonesia, and it has since been redescribed from material from Mauritius, Indian Ocean and formally assigned to the family
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(
<bibRefCitation id="82162F8271D9858D877E448A2C8E0ED3" author="Mauries, JP" journalOrPublisher="Revue suisse de Zoologie" pageId="11" pageNumber="74" pagination="69 - 79" title="Les Diplopodes edaphiques et souterrains de l'Ile Maurice (Myriapoda, Diplopoda)." volume="106" year="1999">
<normalizedToken id="9D1E9E961205C72A156D85AA84B21C51" originalValue="Mauriès">Mauries</normalizedToken>
and Geoffroy 1999
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). However,
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has recently been transferred to
<taxonomicName id="8036ACA57E2423B3E4A04DF769746596" family="Fuhrmannodesmidae" lsidName="" pageId="7" pageNumber="70" rank="family">Fuhrmannodesmidae</taxonomicName>
(
<bibRefCitation id="FC2D66D1B2EA258A454FCDDB03B72836" author="Golovatch, SI" journalOrPublisher="ZooKeys" pageId="11" pageNumber="74" pagination="13 - 77" title="Review of the millipede family Opisotretidae (Diplopoda, Polydesmida), with descriptions of new species." url="10.3897/zookeys.302.5357" volume="302" year="2013">Golovatch et al. 2013</bibRefCitation>
).
</paragraph>
<paragraph id="4003C45B20153E2058261CDD0EEAA760" pageId="8" pageNumber="71">
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the above new evidence, I no longer hesitate to formally synonymize the family
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, 1916 under
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Verhoeff, 1910, syn. n.
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