Eupolybothrus (Mesobothrus), Verhoeff, 1937

C. A. W. Jeekel, 1967, On two Italian Lithobius species described by Silvestri, with taxonomic notes on the genus Eupolybothrus Verhoeff (Chilopoda, Lithobiida), BEAUFORTIA SERIES OF MISCELLANEOUS PUBLICATIONS 14, No. 175, pp. 165-175 : 173-174

Subgenus Mesobothrus Verhoeff, 1937

Verhoeff based this subgenus monotypically on E. transsylvanicus (Latzel, 1882) . to which he added E. leostygis and E. macedonicus (Verhoeff, 1943) in 1943. As has been pointed out already, leostygis is more properly located in the subgenus Schizopolybothrus , which leaves only two species in Mesobothrus . The range of these two includes Rumania, Jugoslavia and Bulgaria.

The subgenus is characterized by the absence of a VCm spine and the presence of one or two VCa spines on the 15th leg, which has a single claw. Projections are present in the 9th, 11th and 13th tergites, and, in transsylvanicus, also in the 6th and 7th tergites. Male gonopods long, the genital sternite of the male medially inci sed. 15th leg of the male with the femur deeply fur rowed. Ventral spinulation of the 15th leg: 0, 1, 3, 2, 2.