Banatodesmus Tabacaru, 1980

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

Genus Banatodesmus Tabacaru, 1980

Type species.

Trichopolydesmus (Banatodesmus) jeanneli Tabacaru, 1980, by monotypy.

Diagnosis.

Different from other European Trichopolydesmidae by the presence of an enlarged, oval, paddle-like solenomere (s in Fig. 4 ), with an additional, small, claw-like, distal solenomeral process (dsp in Fig. 4 ).

In addition, the diagnosis can be amended with the following combination of characters: medium-sized species (7-7.5 mm), 20 body rings (including telson), rings with 4-6 irregular rows of long trichoid metatergal setae, sensilla basiconica completely enclosed inside the pit of antennomere 6, hypoproct with only two long distal setae, paraprocts with only 2+2 long setae, gonopod acropodite divided into two branches, solenophore (sph in Fig. 4 ) with three processes, of which the longest is S-shaped (broken off in the SEM image).

Figures

Figure 4. Banatodesmus jeanneli (Tabacaru, 1980), ♂ from Pestera Haiducească de la Moldova Nouă Cave, Romania, left gonopod (NHMW MY 10257) A mesal view B antero-distal view C distal view D posterior view E anterior view F lateral view G, H antero-lateral views. Abbreviations: a acropodite, ca cannula, cx coxa, dsp distal solenomeral process, pf prefemorite, s solenomere, sb solenomeral branch, sf seminal fossa, sg seminal groove, sph solenophore. Tip of " S " shaped process of sph broken. Scale bars: 0.05 mm.