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<mods:namePart>Antic, Dragan</mods:namePart>
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<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 17" captionStartId="F17" captionText="Figure 17. Gonopods of cavernicolous Trichopolydesmidae from the Carpathian-Balkan arch and Rhodopes A-C Bacillidesmus filiformis (Latzel, 1884) lectotype ♂ (NHWM MY 3754) A after Attems (1898) B? left gonopod,? mesal view, after Attems (1940) C? left gonopod,? mesal view, present study D Banatodesmus jeanneli (Tabacaru, 1980) syntype ♂, right gonopod, mesal view, after Tabacaru (1980) E, F Napocodesmus florentzae Tabacaru, 1975 holotype ♂, right gonopod, mesal and anterior views, respectively, after Tabacaru (1975) G, H Trichopolydesmus eremitis Verhoeff, 1898 ♂ from Closani cave, right gonopod, antero-mesal and mesal views, respectively, after Ceuca (1958) I Balkanodesminus bulgaricus (Strasser, 1962) gen. nov., comb. nov. ♂ from Ponora Cave (NMNHS- 10813), left gonopod, mesal view J Balkanodesminus serbicus gen. nov. et sp. nov. paratype ♂ (NHMW MY 10263), left gonopod, mesal view K Rhodopodesmus niveus gen. nov. et sp. nov. holotype ♂ (NMNHS- 10823), left gonopod, mesal view L Balkanodesminus dentatus (Strasser, 1966 a) gen. nov., comb. nov., stat. nov. syntype ♂, right gonopod, mesal view, after Strasser (1966 a) M Balkanodesminus dentatoides gen. nov. et sp. nov. paratype ♂ (NHMW MY 10258), right gonopod, mesal view N Balkanodesminus dentatoides gen. nov. et sp. nov. ♂ from Sopotska Cave (NHMW MY 10267), left gonopod, mesal view. Scale bars: 0.05 mm." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.1097.83916.figure17" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/674295" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Figs 17L</figureCitation>
<figureCitation captionStart="Figure 18" captionStartId="F18" captionText="Figure 18. Distribution of cavernicolous Trichopolydesmidae from the Carpathian-Balkan arch and the Rhodope Mountains." figureDoi="10.3897/zookeys.1097.83916.figure18" httpUri="https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/674296" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">, 18</figureCitation>
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<taxonomicName authorityName="Antić &amp; Vagalinski &amp; Stoev &amp; Akkari" authorityYear="2022" baseAuthorityName="Antić &amp; Vagalinski &amp; Stoev &amp; Akkari" baseAuthorityYear="2022" class="Diplopoda" family="Trichopolydesmidae" genus="Bacillidesmus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Bacillidesmus bulgaricus subsp. dentatus" order="Polydesmida" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="subSpecies" species="bulgaricus" status="stat. nov." subSpecies="dentatus">Bacillidesmus bulgaricus dentatus</taxonomicName>
Strasser, 1966a: 341, figs 16, 17.
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in part.-
<bibRefCitation DOI="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-5781-6_11" author="Stoev, P" editor="Fet, V" journalOrPublisher="Vol. 82. Biogeography and Ecology of Bulgaria. Springer, Dordrecht" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" pagination="379 - 404" refId="B51" refString="Stoev, P, 2007. Fauna and zoogeography of Myriapoda in Bulgaria. In: Fet, V, Popov, A, Eds., Monographiae Biologicae. Vol. 82. Biogeography and Ecology of Bulgaria. Springer, Dordrecht: 379 - 404, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-5781-6_11" title="Fauna and zoogeography of Myriapoda in Bulgaria." url="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-5781-6_11" volumeTitle="Monographiae Biologicae." year="2007">Stoev 2007</bibRefCitation>
: 384;
<bibRefCitation author="Beron, P" journalOrPublisher="Zootaxa" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" refId="B10" refString="Beron, P, 2015. Cave Fauna of Bulgaria. East-West and National Museum of Natural History Publishers, 434 pp." title="Cave Fauna of Bulgaria. East-West and National Museum of Natural History Publishers, 434 pp." year="2015">Beron 2015</bibRefCitation>
: 80, 411;
<bibRefCitation DOI="https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4263.3.4" author="Bachvarova, D" journalOrPublisher="Zootaxa" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" pagination="507 - 526" refId="B9" refString="Bachvarova, D, Vagalinski, B, Doichinov, A, Stoev, P, 2017. New records of millipedes and centipedes from Bulgaria, with an annotated checklist of the Bulgarian myriapods. Zootaxa 4263 (3): 507 - 526, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4263.3.4" title="New records of millipedes and centipedes from Bulgaria, with an annotated checklist of the Bulgarian myriapods." url="https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4263.3.4" volume="4263" year="2017">Bachvarova et al. 2017</bibRefCitation>
: 521.
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in part.-
<bibRefCitation author="Ceuca, T" journalOrPublisher="Seria Biologia" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" refId="B17" refString="Ceuca, T, 1992. Quelques aspects sur la faunistique, l'ecologie et la zoogeographie des diplopodes de la Region Balkanique. Bericht des naturwissenschaftlich-medizinischen Vereins in Innsbruck, Supplementum, 411-429." title="Quelques aspects sur la faunistique, l'ecologie et la zoogeographie des diplopodes de la Region Balkanique. Bericht des naturwissenschaftlich-medizinischen Vereins in Innsbruck, Supplementum, 411 - 429." year="1992">Ceuca 1992</bibRefCitation>
: 416;
<bibRefCitation author="Kime, RD" journalOrPublisher="Pensoft Publishers, Sofia-Moscow" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" refId="B35" refString="Kime, RD, Enghoff, H, 2011. Atlas of European millipedes (Class Diplopoda). Vol. 1. Pensoft Publishers, Sofia-Moscow" title="Atlas of European millipedes (Class Diplopoda). Vol. 1." year="2011">Kime and Enghoff 2011</bibRefCitation>
: 71, 262.
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<taxonomicName authorityName="Antić &amp; Vagalinski &amp; Stoev &amp; Akkari" authorityYear="2022" baseAuthorityName="Antić &amp; Vagalinski &amp; Stoev &amp; Akkari" baseAuthorityYear="2022" class="Diplopoda" family="Trichopolydesmidae" genus="Bacillidesmus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Bacillidesmus bulgaricus subsp. dentatus" order="Polydesmida" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="subSpecies" species="bulgaricus" status="stat. nov." subSpecies="dentatus">Bacillidesmus bulgaricus dentatus</taxonomicName>
<emphasis bold="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">not</emphasis>
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-
<bibRefCitation author="Stoev, P" journalOrPublisher="Acta Zoologica Bulgarica" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" pagination="145 - 154" refId="B50" refString="Stoev, P, 2004. New distributional records of millipedes from Bulgarian caves (Myriapoda: Diplopoda). Acta Zoologica Bulgarica 56 (2): 145 - 154" title="New distributional records of millipedes from Bulgarian caves (Myriapoda: Diplopoda)." volume="56" year="2004">Stoev 2004</bibRefCitation>
: 149.
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Diagnosis.</paragraph>
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Differs from
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gen. nov., comb. nov. and
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gen. nov. et sp. nov. by the presence of shorter (vs. longer) metatergal setae and their greater (vs. smaller) number of rows, as well as by the presence of more complicated (vs. more simplified) gonopods, with biramous (vs. uniramous) distal solenomeral process and larger and denticulated (vs. smaller and smooth) lamella of solenophore. From
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gen. nov. et sp. nov., with which it shares similar habitus and similar gonopods, it differs by the presence of more robust (vs. slenderer) solenomere, by short process (vs. triangular tooth) on distal solenomeral process, and by the presence (vs. absence) of additional short subdistal process at distal projection of solenophore. In addition, lateral lamella and basal lobe less developed than in
<taxonomicName lsidName="B. dentatoides" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" rank="species" species="dentatoides">
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gen. nov. et sp. nov.
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Material examined.</paragraph>
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,
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(NMNHS-10814),
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,
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,
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,
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,
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peshtera
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(
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locality),
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, leg.
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Distribution.</paragraph>
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So far, this species is known only from its type locality, Drashanskata peshtera Cave (Fig.
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).
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<paragraph pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Remarks.</paragraph>
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Originally described as a subspecies,
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Bacillidesmus bulgaricus dentatus</emphasis>
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.
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pointed out significant differences in the structure of the gonopod between
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and
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, as well as differences in body size. However, he did not notice the differences in the length and arrangement of metatergal setae between the two taxa. The descriptions of the two new species below, one of which is similar to
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in body size, habitus and gonopods, and the other one to
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, clearly indicate the presence of two groups of species within this genus.
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As mentioned above,
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, and
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treated this taxon as a separate species,
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<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Bacillidesmus dentatus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
, without, however, any formal taxonomic act. For the sake of stability of nomenclature here we formally raise this taxon to the species level and transfer it to the newly established genus as
<taxonomicName authorityName="gen. nov., comb. nov." authorityYear="2022" baseAuthorityName="Strasser" baseAuthorityYear="1966" class="Diplopoda" family="Trichopolydesmidae" genus="Balkanodesminus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Balkanodesminus dentatus" order="Polydesmida" pageId="0" pageNumber="1" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="dentatus">
<emphasis italics="true" pageId="0" pageNumber="1">Balkanodesminus dentatus</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
gen. nov., comb. nov., stat. nov.
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