Egonpretneria Strasser, 1966

Antić, Dragan, Dražina, Tvrtko, Raða, Tonći, Tomić, Vladimir T. & Makarov, Slobodan E., 2015, Review of the family Anthogonidae (Diplopoda, Chordeumatida), with descriptions of three new species from the Balkan Peninsula, Zootaxa 3948 (2), pp. 151-181 : 154

Egonpretneria Strasser, 1966

Figs 1–18 , 85 , 89

Diagnosis. Pleurotergites without lateral keels ( Figs 1 and 5 ) and with numerous metazonal warts ( Figs 1–8 ). Macrochaetae very short and bacilliform ( Fig. 6 ). Syncoxite of anterior gonopods with impressive rounded medial lobe ( Figs 12 and 16 ). Posterior gonopods with well-developed, shield-like uniramous lateral coxal processes and with uniramous medial sternal process ( Fig. 18 ).

Type species: Egonpretneria brachychaeta Strasser, 1966 , by original designation.

Figures

FIGURE 89. Egonpretneria vudutschajldi sp. n., paratype male from the Rođakuša Pit, Velebit Mt., labral teeth. Scale line: 0.3 mm.

FIGURES 1 – 8. Egonpretneria vudutschajldi sp. n., paratype male from the Rođakuša Pit, Velebit Mt. 1: body segments XV and XVI, dorsal view; 2: body segment XV, dorsal view; 3: body segment XVI, dorsal view; 4: limbus of body segment XVI; 5: cross-section of body segment XVI, posterior view; 6: external macrochaetae of body segment XVI; 7: metazonal warts of body segment XVI; 8: body segments XV and XVI, lateral view.

FIGURES 9 – 14. Egonpretneria vudutschajldi sp. n., paratype male from the Rođakuša Pit, Velebit Mt., anterior gonopods. 9: anterior view; 10: antero-lateral view; 11: lateral view; 12: posterior view; 13: postero-lateral view; 14: distal view. Designations: a: anterior shield-like coxal process, b: bristles apparatus, d: subapical latero-caudal denticle, l: lamella, lp: lateral process, pp: posterior process, sco: syncoxal rounded lobe.

FIGURES 15 – 18. Egonpretneria vudutschajldi sp. n., paratype male from the Rođakuša Pit, Velebit Mt., gonopods. 15: anterior gonopods, anterior view; 16: anterior gonopods, posterior view; 17: anterior gonopods, lateral view; 18: posterior gonopods, anterior view. Designations: a: anterior shield-like coxal process, b: bristles apparatus, d: subapical latero-caudal denticle, l: lamella, m: uniramous medial sternal process, v: posterior medial vesicle, lp: lateral process, pp: posterior process, lcp: lateral coxal process, sco: syncoxal rounded lobe. Scale line: 0.3 mm.

FIGURES 85 – 88. Balkan anthogonids in their natural habitats. 85: Egonpretneria sp., female from the Ponor na Štirovači Cave, Velebit Mt. (photo by A. Kirin); 86: Macrochaetosoma troglomontanum Absolon & Lang, 1933, male from the Kuna Špilja Cave, Biokovo (photo by R. Ozimec); 87: Haasia likana (Strasser, 1966), female from the Manita Peć Cave, Velebit Mt. (photo by T. Dražina); 88: Haasia stenopodium (Strasser, 1966), female from the Lukina Jama Pit, Velebit Mt. (photo by M. Pavlek). Without scale. Size of specimens and ratios between sizes of specimens are not real.