Titanophyllum, Akkari, Nesrine, Stoev, Pavel & Enghoff, Henrik, 2011

Akkari, Nesrine, Stoev, Pavel & Enghoff, Henrik, 2011, Two new cave rnicolous genera of Julidae (Diplopoda, Julida), with notes on the tribe Brachyiulini and on julid subanal hooks and anchors, ZooKeys 114, pp. 1-14 : 3

Titanophyllum gen. n.

Diagnosis.

Differs from all other genera of Brachyiulini by lacking ocelli and by having a rather simple, apically incised promerite devoid of any filamentous processes or apical appendages, and a simple unipartite posterior gonopod with a proximal lobe laterally and a subbasal fold and a groove mesally, the latter ending in a subapical opening.

Etymology.

The name combines the type locality, Titanospilia (the cave of Titans) and the suffix - phyllum - referring to the simple, leaf-shaped posterior gonopods. Gender neuter.