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<mods:title>The centipede genus Eupolybothrus Verhoeff, 1907 (Chilopoda: Lithobiomorpha: Lithobiidae) in North Africa, a cybertaxonomic revision, with a key to all species in the genus and the first use of DNA barcoding for the group</mods:title>
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<treatment ID-GBIF-Taxon="159359450" LSID="urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:B9222D42-A69E-47EF-8ACE-7226398E489B" httpUri="http://treatment.plazi.org/id/2C0D1B80AD95B7A229E3DD2E7EF90DA4" lastPageId="18" lastPageNumber="47" pageId="15" pageNumber="44">
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<taxonomicName LSID="urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:B9222D42-A69E-47EF-8ACE-7226398E489B" authority="Stoev & Akkari" class="Chilopoda" family="Lithobiidae" genus="Eupolybothrus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Eupolybothrus kahfi" order="Lithobiomorpha" pageId="15" pageNumber="44" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="kahfi">Eupolybothrus kahfi Stoev & Akkari</taxonomicName>
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<taxonomicNameLabel pageId="15" pageNumber="44">sp. n.</taxonomicNameLabel>
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Figs 3-4
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<paragraph pageId="15" pageNumber="44">Type material.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="15" pageNumber="44">Holotype: adult ♂, North Tunisia, Zaghouan Governorate, Jebel Zaghouan, Gouffre (chasm) Sidi Bou Gabrine, 36°22.423'N, 10°06.328'E, alt. 642 m, under clay lump, 17.III.2008, P. Stoev leg. (NMNHS). Other material: 1 juv., same locality, date and collector, collected creeping on the wall at the endmost hall (NMNHS).</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="15" pageNumber="44">Diagnosis.</paragraph>
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A species of
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<taxonomicName class="Chilopoda" family="Lithobiidae" genus="Eupolybothrus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Eupolybothrus" order="Lithobiomorpha" pageId="15" pageNumber="44" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Eupolybothrus</taxonomicName>
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with long antennae, approx. 90% length of body, composed of 68 articles; eyes composed of 18 ocelli; colour uniformly yellow-whitish; anterior margin of forcipular coxosternite with 7+7 teeth; TT 9, 11, 13 with posterior triangular projections; leg 15 56-57% length of body, with a single claw on pretarsus; prefemur of leg 15 with a long, conical dorso-median protuberance emerging from its posterior part and pointing posterior-dorsad; coxal pores generally large, round to ovoid; around 15-20 on legs 12 and 13 and about 20-24 on legs 14 and 15; posterior margin of male first genital sternite straight.
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<paragraph pageId="15" pageNumber="44">Description.</paragraph>
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Holotype: Length (from anterior margin of cephalic plate to posterior margin of telson) approx. 30 mm; cephalic plate slightly broader than long (Fig. 3a); head 2.7 mm long, 3 mm wide; leg 15 aprox. 17 mm long, or 56-57% length of
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<pageBreakToken pageId="16" pageNumber="45" start="start">body</pageBreakToken>
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. Colour generally uniformly yellow-whitish; only forcipular coxosternal teeth, posterior half of forcipular tarsungulum brown; anterior 1/3 of cephalic plate slightly darker yellowish; interrupted black line stretches along the midline of body and can be traced on all but last tergite.
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<paragraph pageId="16" pageNumber="45">
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Cephalic plate smooth, wider than T1 (Fig. 3a); a median notch contributing to biconvex anterior margin; marginal ridge with a distinct median thickening occupying almost 50% breadth of plate; posterior margin straight or slightly convex; central part of cephalic plate concave; transverse suture situated at about 1/3 of anterior edge; posterior limbs of transverse suture visible, connecting basal antennal article with anterior part of ocellar area; setae on cephalic plate very few, dispersed, without regular arrangement. Ocelli: 1+3,4,5,5; seriate ocelli greyish, oval to elliptical, in 4 rows: first seriate ocellus of the exteriormost row largest, ocelli of the middle two rows medium-sized, those of inferior row smallest; posterior ocellus as large as the first seriate ocellus.
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<normalizedToken originalValue="Tömösváry’s">Toemoesvary's</normalizedToken>
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organ small, circular, situated on subtriangular sclerotisation immediately below the inferiormost row of seriate ocelli (Fig. 3b).
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<paragraph pageId="16" pageNumber="45">Left antenna long, approx. 27 mm, reaching or slightly surpassing posterior margin of T12 when folded backwards; 90% length of body, composed of 68 articles; right antenna damaged, composed of at least 34 articles; basal two articles enlarged (Fig. 3a), most articles longer than broad; last 12 articles more elongated than others; ultimate article about same length as penultimate (Fig. 3c). Basal two articles less setose than others, which are densely covered with trichoid setae.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="16" pageNumber="45">Clypeus with a cluster of about 30-33 long to medium-sized setae situated at apex and near the lateral margin (Fig. 3d).</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="16" pageNumber="45">Forcipule (Fig. 3e): coxosternite subhexagonal, lateral margins feebly convex; anterior margin set off as a rim by furrow that is impressed behind all teeth; coxosternal teeth 7+7, inner tooth smaller than others, its apex well posterior to outer tooth; median diastema small, strongly narrowed by the inner teeth; intradental distance varying, generally increasing towards lateral teeth; porodont arising from a small node below the dental rim, situated posteriad to teeth and well laterad to lateralmost tooth; base of porodont as thick as adjacent tooth or slightly thinner; coxosternite densely setose anteriorly; setae generally long, in approximately 7-8 irregular rows; another row of long setae visible behind anterior margin. Forcipular trochanteroprefemur medially concave with a small subtriangular outgrowth emerging at its posterior part; distal part of tarsungulum about six times longer than proximal part, devoid of setae; forcipular prefemur, femur and tibia fringed with a row of setae (sparse and irregular on the posterior half of prefemoral part).</paragraph>
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Tergites (Fig. 3f) generally wrinkled (less so on smaller tergites); TT 9, 11, 13 with well-developed posterior triangular projections, less so on T9; posterior margination lacking on all tergites, poorly visible on last two tergites and on the posterior angles of T1; T1 subtrapeziform, wider than T3, posterior margin transverse. Posterior margin of TT 8, 10, 12, 14 gently concave; posterior angles of TT 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 rounded; those of TT 6, 7, 8 right-angled; pointed on TT 10, 12, and less so also on T14; all tergites covered with sparse, thin but generally long setae, which increase in number towards
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<pageBreakToken pageId="17" pageNumber="46" start="start">posterior</pageBreakToken>
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segments; posterior half of intermediate tergite covered with denser field of such setae.
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<paragraph pageId="17" pageNumber="46">Sternites smooth, subtrapeziform, with few sparse setae, mainly at lateral margins. Posterior margins straight, slightly convex only on sternites 1 and 15 (Fig. 3g).</paragraph>
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Figure 3.
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<taxonomicName class="Chilopoda" family="Lithobiidae" genus="Eupolybothrus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Eupolybothrus kahfi" order="Lithobiomorpha" pageId="17" pageNumber="46" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="kahfi">Eupolybothrus kahfi</taxonomicName>
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sp. n., male, holotype: a - cephalic plate; b - ocelli and
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organ; c - apical part of antenna; d - clypeus; e - forcipule; f - TT 8-14; g - sternite 7; h - leg 10. Figs 3e and f without scales. ss - serial setae. Posterior triangular projections on TT 9, 11 and 13 indicated by arrows (Fig. 3f), clypeal setae indicated by an arrow (Fig. 3d).
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<caption pageId="17" pageNumber="46">
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Figure 4.
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<taxonomicName class="Chilopoda" family="Lithobiidae" genus="Eupolybothrus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Eupolybothrus kahfi" order="Lithobiomorpha" pageId="17" pageNumber="46" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="kahfi">Eupolybothrus kahfi</taxonomicName>
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sp. n., male, holotype: a - tarsus 1, tarsus 2 and pretarsus of a midbody leg; b - tarsus 1, tarsus 2 and pretarsus of leg 15; c - prefemora of legs 15, dorso-lateral view; d - coxae and male first genital sternite. ac - accessory claw; dmp - dorso-median protuberance.
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<paragraph pageId="17" pageNumber="46">Legs: all legs generally elongated (Fig. 3h); legs 14 and 15 much longer than 1-12; leg 13 only slightly longer; leg 15 longest of all; maximal length of podomeres: coxa 1.3 mm, prefemur 3.2 mm, femur 3.2 mm, tibia 3.8 mm, tarsus 1 4.2 mm, tarsus 2 2.3 mm, pretarsus 0.4 mm. Tarsus 1 and tarsus 2 of legs 1-14 with two rows of ventral setae (Fig. 4a). Pretarsus of legs 1-14 with a large principal claw and smaller and thinner accessory claw emerging dorso-laterally; accessory claw half length of the principal claw. Pretarsus of leg 15 with a single claw (Fig. 4b). Leg 15 with secondary sexual modifications: prefemur with a long conical dorso-median protuberance emerging from its posterior part and pointing posterio-dorsad (Fig. 4c), its tip surmounted with a tuft of setae. Leg 14 without particular modifications.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="17" pageNumber="46">Spinulation: as in Table 5.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="17" pageNumber="46">Coxal pores: generally large, round to ovoid; 15-20 on legs 12-13 and about 20-24 on legs 14 and 15; pores separated by less than their own diameter, forming 3-4 irregular rows (Fig. 4d).</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="17" pageNumber="46">Male first genital sternite subquadrate (Fig. 4d), fringed with numerous long setae sparsely covering its whole surface, posterior margin not emarginated; gonopod small, hidden behind the edge of first genital sternite, with 8-10 long setae.</paragraph>
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<paragraph pageId="18" pageNumber="47">
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<pageBreakToken pageId="18" pageNumber="47" start="start">Juvenile</pageBreakToken>
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: pale yellow-whitish, with 15 leg-pairs, most detached; antennae long, approx. 90% of body length, composed of 36-37 articles; ultimate article almost 2.5 times length of penultimate; 5 ocelli; forcipular coxosternite with 5+5 teeth, median diastema shallow, V-shaped; TT 9, 11, 13 with posterior triangular projections; coxal pores: 2,1,1,1.
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<caption pageId="18" pageNumber="47">
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Table 5.
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Stoev & Akkari, sp. n., male, holotype: spinulation of legs
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<th pageId="18" pageNumber="47">Leg</th>
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<th colspan="5" pageId="18" pageNumber="47">Ventral</th>
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<th colspan="5" pageId="18" pageNumber="47">Dorsal</th>
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<tr pageId="18" pageNumber="47">CTrPFeFeTiCTrPFeFeTi</tr>
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<tr pageId="18" pageNumber="47">1--mpampamp--ampAa</tr>
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<tr pageId="18" pageNumber="47">2--mpampamp--ampa-pa</tr>
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<tr pageId="18" pageNumber="47">3--mpampamp--ampa-pa-p</tr>
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<tr pageId="18" pageNumber="47">4--mpampamp--ampa-pa-p</tr>
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<tr pageId="18" pageNumber="47">5--mpampamp--ampa-pa-p</tr>
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<tr pageId="18" pageNumber="47">6--(a)mpampamp--ampa-pa-p</tr>
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<tr pageId="18" pageNumber="47">7--(a)mpampamp--ampa-pa-p</tr>
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<tr pageId="18" pageNumber="47">8--ampampamp--ampa-pa-p</tr>
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<tr pageId="18" pageNumber="47">9--ampampamp--ampa-pa-p</tr>
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<tr pageId="18" pageNumber="47">10-(m)ampampamp--ampa-pa-p</tr>
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<tr pageId="18" pageNumber="47">11-mampampamp--ampa-pa-p</tr>
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<tr pageId="18" pageNumber="47">12-mampampamp--ampa-pa-p</tr>
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<tr pageId="18" pageNumber="47">13-mampampamp--ampa-pa-p</tr>
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<tr pageId="18" pageNumber="47">14-mampampaa-ama-pa-p</tr>
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<tr pageId="18" pageNumber="47">15amampamaa-amP-</tr>
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<paragraph pageId="18" pageNumber="47">Origin of name.</paragraph>
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derives from the Arabic word kahf (ﻒﮫﮐ) meaning
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<normalizedToken originalValue="‘cave’">'cave'</normalizedToken>
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, and kahfi denotes 'living in
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<normalizedToken originalValue="cave’">cave'</normalizedToken>
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.
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<paragraph pageId="18" pageNumber="47">Habitat.</paragraph>
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<taxonomicName class="Chilopoda" family="Lithobiidae" genus="Eupolybothrus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Eupolybothrus kahfi" order="Lithobiomorpha" pageId="18" pageNumber="47" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="kahfi">Eupolybothrus kahfi</taxonomicName>
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occurs in a chasm of approximately 30 m depth which after descending continues as a narrow horizontal gallery ending in a small hall. The total length of the cave is approximately 50 m. There are just a few humid spots on the floor, with almost no organic substance. The juvenile specimen was collected creeping on the wall at the end hall, while the adult was found under a lump of clay, approximately one meter below the place of descent. In the cave
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<taxonomicName class="Chilopoda" family="Lithobiidae" genus="Eupolybothrus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Eupolybothrus kahfi" order="Lithobiomorpha" pageId="18" pageNumber="47" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="species" species="kahfi">Eupolybothrus kahfi</taxonomicName>
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co-occurs with troglomorphic isopods, spiders of the genus
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<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Tetragnathidae" genus="Meta" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Meta" order="Araneae" pageId="18" pageNumber="47" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Meta</taxonomicName>
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C.L. Koch, 1836, pseudoscorpions of the genus
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<taxonomicName class="Arachnida" family="Neobisiidae" genus="Roncus" higherTaxonomySource="CoL" kingdom="Animalia" lsidName="Roncus" order="Pseudoscorpiones" pageId="18" pageNumber="47" phylum="Arthropoda" rank="genus">Roncus</taxonomicName>
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L. Koch, 1873, harvestmen, troglobitic diplurans, trichopterans and gastropods.
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