Typhloiulus longipes Strasser, 1973

Typhloiulus (Inversotyphlus) longipes Strasser, 1973 Typhloiulus longipes: Ceuca 1992

Distribution. Bulgaria: cave Belyar near Vratsa (type locality!), cave Zvankova dupka near Chiren (Vagalinski & Stoev 2007).

Remarks. This species is so far known from only two water caves in Western Stara planina Mts. It was originally placed in the subgenus Inversotyphlus Strasser, 1962, mainly because of its anteriorly bent promere. By all criteria T. longipes is a very peculiar species, which combines a unique set of both gonopodal and somatic characters, such as reduced but non-uncinate male leg-pair 1, enlarged coxae on male leg-pair 2, a slender and strongly tapering penis, and strongly elongated gonopods with an opisthomere bearing a fine, root-like velum.