Ommatoiulus camurus Akkari & Enghoff, 2017, sp. nov.
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Description
Ommatoiulus camurus sp. nov.
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Figs 6–8
DiagnosisA large species. Most similar to O. armatus (Verhoeff, 1910) and O. dorsovittatus (Verhoeff, 1893), agreeing with these in the presence of a lateral notch on the promerite, a curved bifurcate mesomerite and a reduced paracoxite. Differing from both in the modified apex of the promerite, the deep curvature of the mesomerite and the shape of the solenomerite.
EtymologyThe species epithet is a Latin adjective meaning curved and refers to the strongly curved shape of the posterior gonopods.
Material examined HolotypePORTUGAL: 1 ♂, Faro District, Algarve, Cape St. Vincent, 2 Mar. 1981, D. Kime leg. (ZMUC).
ParatypesPORTUGAL: 2 ♀♀, same data as holotype.
Description
MEASUREMENTS. Male: L = 45 mm, H = 5 mm, 45 PR+2 AR+Telson. Females: L = 35–47 mm, H = 4.5–6.1 mm, 41 PR+3 AR+Telson.
COLOUR. After 35 years in alcohol (Fig. 6). Prozonites uniformly light grey perhaps with faded marbling, metazonites anteriorly pale, dominated by a strong reddish brown colour with dense black sputter posteriorly and showing a striking yellow band on the posterior margin, a thin black mid-dorsal line; legs brownish; head dark brown, mouthparts lighter, antenna dark brown; telson and anal valves brownish. Prozonites with oblique striae; metazonites with regular striation; suture complete, rectilinear but sometimes with a sinus at ozopore level. Anal valves with a marginal row of short setae, a submarginal row of longer ones, disc glabrous (setae broken?); subanal scale triangular, clearly protruding and setose; preanal process broken on all specimens.
GONOPODS (Figs 7–8). Promerite (P) in posterior view broad at the base, gradually narrowing distad, lateral margin expanded and rounded, distally incised in a rounded notch; mesal ridge (Mr) broad and fusing with the mesal margin; promerite apex marked with a fold with a strongly sclerotized and serrated process on the mesal margin, and a subapical notch on the lateral one; rudimentary telopodite (T) small, located basally, close to the mesal ridge. Posterior gonopod: mesomerite (Ms) broad, hookshaped and strongly curved, distally bifurcating into two thin asymmetrical and downturned processes pointing meso-basad; solenomerite (S) much shorter than Ms, bearing strong serrations on the anterior and apical margin and fringed with a large number of spikes, and a thin acuminate mesal process (Sm) pointing distad; posterior process of the solenomerite (Sp) showing an acute tip lodging the opening of the seminal groove 'og'; seminal groove (g) running posteriorly from the fovea (F) located at the base of the solenomerite up along Sp and opening in og (Figs 7 D, 8B); paracoxite (Px) reduced, emerging from a bipartite round coxa (Cx) (Figs 7 D, 8B–C).
DistributionSouth Portugal, Algarve.
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Additional details
Biodiversity
- Family
- Julidae
- Genus
- Ommatoiulus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Julida
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Species
- camurus
- Taxonomic status
- sp. nov.
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Ommatoiulus camurus Akkari & Enghoff, 2017
References
- Verhoeff K. W. 1910. Uber Diplopoden. 11. - 15. (31. - 35.) Aufsatz: Beitrage zur Kenntnis der Glomeriden, Juliden, Ascospermorpha und Lysiopetaliden, sowie zur Fauna Siziliens, Untersuchungen uber Art- und Gruppensystematik; Morphologie, nachembryonale Entwicklung; Biologie und Geographie. Nova Acta. Abhandlungen der Kasiserl. Leop. - Carol. Deutschen Akademie der Naturforscher 92 (2): 139 - 448.
- Verhoeff K. W. 1893 a. Vorlaufige Mittheilung uber neue Schaltstadiumbeobachtungen bei Juliden, eine neue Gruppierung der alten Gattung Julus und einige neue und seltene Diplopoden aus Tirol. Zoologischer Anzeiger 16 (436): 479 - 482.