Megaphyllum beroni ( Strasser, 1973 )

Lazányi, Eszter, Vagalinski, Boyan & Korsós, Zoltán, 2012, The millipede genus Megaphyllum Verhoeff, 1894 in the Balkan Peninsula, with description of new species (Myriapoda: Diplopoda: Julida: Julidae), Zootaxa 3228, pp. 1-47 : 8

Megaphyllum beroni ( Strasser, 1973)

Chromatoiulus (Chromatoiulus) beroni Strasser, 1973: 444 –446, 455 and 460, Figs 49–51 . Chromatoiulus beroni: Ceuca 1992: 425 .

Megaphyllum beroni: Vagalinski & Stoev 2007: 48 ; Enghoff & Kime 2009.

Distribution in the Balkans. Bulgaria: Rhodope Mts.: Dyavolskoto Garlo Cave near Trigrad (type locality) ( Vagalinski & Stoev 2007).

World distribution. Endemic to the Rhodope Mts., Bulgaria.

Remarks. Though known only from a cave, this species is regarded as trogloxene, having no evident troglobiotic adaptations. Thorough searching of the cave did not result in a second finding of beroni , thus it could have been an accidental shelter in the cave of a very rare, endemic surface species ( Beron 1994).

Figures

FIGURES 48 – 52. Megaphyllum cygniforme Lazányi & Korsós sp. n. from Greece, Lekanis Mts, male paratype. (48) In situ left gonopods, caudo-mesal view; (49) right promere, caudo-mesal view (scale bars: 0.5 mm); right opisthomere from (50) caudo-lateral and (51) lateral views (scale bars: 0.1 mm); (52) right solenomere, caudo-lateral view (scale bar: 0.05 mm). Abbreviations: cp: caudal process, fl: flagellum, g: groove, r: riffle, s: swan-neck formed solenomere, P: promere.