Karadenizia, Antić, 2023

Antić, Dragan, 2023, Karadenizia, a new monospecific pachyiuline genus (Diplopoda: Julida: Julidae) from Turkey, Zootaxa 5315 (5), pp. 456-468 : 457

Genus Karadenizia gen. nov.

Type species: Karadenizia merti gen. nov., sp. nov., by present designation and monotypy.

Diagnosis. Distinguished from other pachyiuline genera by the presence of a characteristic opisthomere, the distal part of which resembles the head of a singing songbird, with a beaklike solenomere with a spoutlike anterior part, and a strongly developed, fimbriate velum (anterior lamella) below. In addition, the following combination of gonopodal and habitual features can be used to recognise this genus: promere spoon-shaped with a lateral ridge and a distomesal tooth; mesomeral process strongly developed, digitiform, mesally connected to the opisthomere by a well-developed accessory membrane; opisthomere without posterior lamella; body moniliform, with a characteristic colour pattern with orange anterior and posterior ends; head with a pair of frontal setae and ommatidia; mandibular stipites expanded; metazonae with setae; epiproct with a short process.

Name. The new genus is named after its terra typica, the Black Sea coast. Karadeniz is the Turkish name for the Black Sea. The name is a feminine noun.