Ommatoiulus kimei Akkari & Enghoff, 2012

Akkari, Nesrine & Enghoff, Henrik, 2012, Review of the genus Ommatoiulus in Andalusia, Spain (Diplopoda: Julida) with description of ten new species and notes on a remarkable gonopod structure, the fovea, Zootaxa 3538, pp. 1-53 : 29

Ommatoiulus kimei Akkari & Enghoff n.sp

Figs 65–68

Ommatoiulus SP. 3: Bailey and De Mendonça 1990

Material. Holotype: 1 ♂, El Salado , Sierra de la Córdoba, Santa María de Tassieria, 37º56'04"N, 4º55'54"W, 511 m, 4.xii.2011, M. Baena leg. ( ZMUC) . Paratypes: 1 ♀, El Salado, Sierra de la Córdoba, Santa María de Tassieria , 37º56'04"N, 4º55'54"W, alt. 511 m, 4.xii.2011, M. Baena leg ; 1 ♂, Andalusia, Sevilla, ca. 20 Km South Guadalcanal , in cork-oak litter, 11. xi. 1986, P.T. Bailey leg. ( ZMUC) , 1 ♂, 2 ♀♀, 1 subadult, Andalusia, Córdoba, near gardens of Alcázer do Reis , 31.x.1987, P.T. Bailey leg. ( ZMUC) . 1 ♂, 3 ♀♀, 34 Km N. of Córdoba , in litter of Cistus , 31. xi. 1987, P.T. Bailey leg. ( ZMUC) .

Diagnosis. Most similar to O. niger , O. ibericus and O. hoffmani n. sp. but differing from these species by a slender protruding apical mesal process on the promerite, a long subapical process on the mesomerite, and similarly long acuminate posterior and mesal processes on the mesomerite.

Etymology. Species named in honour of Desmond Kime in recognition of his multi-decade devotion to the study, especially mapping, of the European millipede fauna.

Description. Male: L: 25 mm, H: 2.3 mm, 50 PR+2 AR+T. Female: H: 3.4 mm, 54 PR+1 AR+T. General dark brown-blackish. Head and collum light purple-brown, mouthparts yellowish. Prozonites brownish, moderately sputtered with black below the line of ozopores, dorsally dominantly black with yellowish marbling on the lateral sides, metazonites chocolate brown, slightly lighter posteriorly, dorsum with a thin black mid-dorsal line. Metazonites with regular striation and scattered setae on the posterior margin, ozopores opening at a distance ca. their diameter behind suture; latter complete, curving at ozopore level.

Telson: Preanal ring with a protruding caudal projection and upturned hyaline process; anal valves with a row of short setae on the margin, a submarginal row of longer ones and ca. 5 setae on the surface; subanal scale triangular, pointed and setose, preanal ring with 3–4 setae laterally and several on the tip.

Gonopods: Promerite ( Fig. 65) sub-rectangular with two apical projections: a lateral digit-shaped (Dg) process which is rounded, very prominent and with a coarsely scaly surface, and a mesal slender process (Mp) tapering apically, both separated by a deep notch (no); mesal ridge uniformly broad, distally protruding in a small lobe; rudimentary telopodite (T) conspicuous, cylindrical, located distally. Posterior gonopod ( Figs 66–68): Mesomerite (Ms) simple, longer than the promerite, uniformly slender, apically bent anteriad and bearing a small hook (hk1) pointing anterobasad and a much longer acuminate hook (broken in the figure) (hk2) directed mesoapically ( Figs 66, 67); Solenomerite (S) broad at the base with anteriorly a jagged lamella (jl) ( Fig. 66), only slightly narrowed at midlength, distally expanding in broad lamella ramified into 1) a posterior conical, blunt and strongly serrated process (Cn), 2) a longer lamellar process (lmp) ( Figs 66, 67) lodging the opening of the seminal groove (g), folded and apically tapering, and anteriorly connected to a small concial process (Cp), 3) an anterior lamella (lp) with jagged surface, separated from the rest by a deep notch, marginally serrated and apically acuminate with the tip of the same length as (lmp) ( Fig. 68). Seminal groove (g) running posteriorly from the fovea (F) located at the base up to process Cp ( Fig. 67). Paracoxite (Px), stout, slightly longer than solenomerite, gradually narrowed distally and apically bent and projecting into a triangular process pointing mesad ( Fig. 67).

Distribution. Known from Córdoba and south of Sevilla, Andalusia.

Habitat. Litter of Quercus suber forest and shrub with Cistus spp. ( Bailey and De Mendonça 1990).