Napocodesmus florentzae Tabacaru, 1975

Antic, Dragan, Vagalinski, Boyan, Stoev, Pavel & Akkari, Nesrine, 2022, A review of the cavernicolous Trichopolydesmidae (Diplopoda, Polydesmida) from the Carpathian-Balkan arch and the Rhodope Mountains, with descriptions of two new genera and three new species, ZooKeys 1097, pp. 1-46 : 1

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scientific name	Napocodesmus florentzae Tabacaru, 1975
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Figs 17E, F View Figure 17 , 18 View Figure 18

Napocodesmus florentzae Tabacaru, 1975: 73, figs 1-6.

Napocodesmus florentzae - Ceuca 1992: 416; Tabacaru et al. 2003: 133; Tabacaru and Giurginca 2016: 100, fig. 13; Kime and Enghoff 2011: 72, 265; Giurginca 2021: 88, fig. 54.

Diagnosis.

Cannot be compared to N. endogeus since its description was based on females only (see under Remarks).

Besides the hook-shaped posterolateral cones on the metaterga, this species differs from other European Trichopolydesmidae by the simplified gonopods with the acropodite divided in its distal third into two branches, a slender and claw-like solenophore and a wide and flattened, sublamelliform solenomere, both branches being parallel and oriented completely meso-laterally to each other (Fig. 17E, F View Figure 17 ).

In addition, the diagnosis can be amended with the following combination of characters: small species (3.4 mm), 19 body rings (including telson), sensilla basiconica on antennomere 6 partially exposed outside the pit, hypoproct with more than two long distal setae, paraprocts with more than 2+2 long setae, metaterga with 4-7 irregular rows of trichoid setae.

Distribution.

This species is known only from its type locality, Peştera cu Două Uşi Cave, Sușița Verde Valley, Vâlcan Mountains, Gorj County, Romania (Fig. 18 View Figure 18 ).

Remarks.

Tabacaru (1975) stated that he had collected a male and a female, but that the female was lost during a breeding experiment. The excellent description and drawings (Fig. 17E, F View Figure 17 ) he gave were based on only one male, which, if it still exists, should be treated as the holotype by monotypy.

The type species of this genus, N. endogeus , was described based on nine females found in the soil near the Biology Department at the University of Cluj in Romania ( Ceuca 1974). Akkari and Enghoff (2011) cited this species from deep soil in an orchard in Moldova. Before that, Golovatch and Kime (2009) stated that this species is very common and abundant in Moldova’s apple orchards, but probably accidentally under the name N. florentzae , instead of N. endogeus .

Napocodesmus florentzae shares some similarities in its habitus with Balkanodesminus gen. nov. and Rhodopodesmus gen. nov., viz., small size, 19 body rings, 4-7 rows of irregular trichoid setae (4-8 in two last-mentioned genera), sensilla basiconica on antennomere 6 partially exposed outside the pit, and hypoproct and paraprocts with more than two long setae.

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Diplopoda
Order	Polydesmida
Family	Trichopolydesmidae
Genus	Napocodesmus