Inversotyphlus Strasser, 1962

Antic, Dragan & Akkari, Nesrine, 2023, The genus Inversotyphlus Strasser, 1962, stat. nov. and Inversotyphlus ammirandus sp. nov., a new bizarre, highly modified troglobiotic millipede (Diplopoda, Julida, Julidae) from Albania, Balkan Peninsula, ZooKeys 1184, pp. 65-80 : 65

Genus Inversotyphlus Strasser, 1962 stat. nov.

Inversotyphlus Strasser, 1962: 45 (as subgenus of Typhloiulus Latzel, 1884).

Attemsotyphlus Strasser, 1962: 47 (as subgenus of Typhloiulus Latzel, 1884; type species Typhloiulus edentulus Attems, 1951 by monotypy); syn. nov.

Type species.

Typhloiulus lobifer Attems, 1951 by monotypy.

Diagnosis.

Blind and mostly depigmented species of the julid tribe Typhloiulini , with a pair of frontal setae, promere with flagellum, mesomere free, opisthomere slender. Differs from other members of the tribe Typhloiulini in the absence of an opisthomesomeral lamella, the presence of an opisthomeral velum ending with a thin process carrying a few fimbriae, presence of a poorly developed but noticeable anterior lamella of the opisthomere, and the simple, more or less blunt apex of the solenomere in combination of a hook-shaped leg-pair 1 and a slender penis with two long distal lobes.

Included species

Inversotyphlus clavatus ( Antić, 2018), comb. nov. (ex Typhloiulus ).

Inversotyphlus edentulus (Attems, 1951), comb. nov. (ex Typhloiulus (Attemsotyphlus) ).

Inversotyphlus gellianae (Makarov & Rađa, 2006), comb. nov. (ex Typhloiulus ).

Inversotyphlus gracilis ( Antić, 2018), comb. nov. (ex Typhloiulus ).

Inversotyphlus lobifer (Attems, 1951), comb. nov. (ex Typhloiulus ).

Inversotyphlus opisthonodus ( Antić, 2018), comb. nov. (ex Typhloiulus ).

New species