Bellatoiulus, Evsyukov & Vagalinski & Zabiyaka & Sadyrin, 2022

Evsyukov, Aleksandr P., Vagalinski, Boyan, Zabiyaka, Igor Y. & Sadyrin, Evgeniy V., 2022, A new millipede genus and species of the tribe Pachyiulini from the Caucasus (Diplopoda, Julida, Julidae), ZooKeys 1097, pp. 47-63 : 47

Genus Bellatoiulus gen. nov.

Type species.

Bellatoiulus golovatchi gen. et sp. nov., by present designation.

Diagnosis.

A genus of the julid tribe Pachyiulini , distinguished from all contribal genera by the unique presence of a lateral process on the opisthomere, as well as by the following combination of gonopodal and external somatic characters: promere with mesal ridge distally extending in a strong process, caudal face without apical denticles/ridges; opisthomere without anterior and caudal lamellae or these being vestigial, mesomeral process well-differentiated, crest-like, solenomere with a deep and narrow apical fovea; ommatidia absent, mandibular stipites in males not expanded, vertigial and metazonal setae present, pre-anal ring with an epiproct.

Name.

Derived from the Latin bellator meaning “soldier”, “warrior”, after the remarkably “armed” appearance of the gonopods including the club-like mesal and lateral processes of the promere and the opisthomere, respectively, and the apically serrated mesomeral process; plus Julus , the type genus of the family Julidae . Masculine.