Megaphyllum taygetanum ( Attems, 1903 )

Lazányi, Eszter, Vagalinski, Boyan & Korsós, Zoltán, 2012, The millipede genus Megaphyllum Verhoeff, 1894 in the Balkan Peninsula, with description of new species (Myriapoda: Diplopoda: Julida: Julidae), Zootaxa 3228, pp. 1-47 : 24-25

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.214875

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6173948

persistent identifier

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scientific name

Megaphyllum taygetanum ( Attems, 1903 )
status

 

Megaphyllum taygetanum ( Attems, 1903) View in CoL

Brachyiulus taygetanus Attems, 1903: 136 View in CoL –137, Figs 59–61.

Chromatoiulus taygetanus: Attems 1927: 224 View in CoL ; Strasser 1967: 286 –287, Figs 19–21 View FIGURES 19 – 21 ; 1974: 272 and 290; 1976: 613–614; Ceuca 1992: 425.

Chromatoiulus (Dittozus) taygetanus: Attems 1940: 307 View in CoL and 312, Figs 28–29.

Megaphyllum taygetanum: Enghoff & Kime 2009 View in CoL .

Material examined. HNHM: Greece: 233, Paradisa, 31.03.1999, leg. LD; 13, 2ƤƤ, 2009/1, Arkadia county, Garea, open wood E of the village, 680m, N37°26.576’ E22°27.467’, 0 2.04.2009, leg. LD, JK & DM; 13, 2009/ 43, Arkadia county, Tetrazi Mts., Ag. Theodora, rocky maple forest, 490m, N37°21.269’ E21°58.782’, 0 5.04.2009, leg. LD, JK & DM.

Distribution in the Balkans. Greece: Ladha, Taygetos (type locality) ( Attems 1903), Mistras, 500m, 7km E of Sparta, Taygetos Mts. ( Strasser 1967).

World distribution. Endemic to the Taygetos Mts., Peloponnese, Greece.

Remarks. The new material supports Strasser’s (1967) observation on the lateral caudal process of the opisthomere (lcp on Figs 19–21 View FIGURES 19 – 21 ), which again proved to be variable: on the specimens from Paradisa it is a simple process ( sensu Attems (Strasser 1967)) ( Fig. 19 View FIGURES 19 – 21 ), on those from the other two localities it is more or less serrated ( sensu Strasser (1967)) ( Figs 20–21 View FIGURES 19 – 21 ). It is the second species of the subgenus Dittozus Attems, 1940 , but its validity was seriously questioned by Strasser (1967).

HNHM

Hungarian Natural History Museum (Termeszettudomanyi Muzeum)

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Diplopoda

Order

Julida

Family

Julidae

Genus

Megaphyllum

Loc

Megaphyllum taygetanum ( Attems, 1903 )

Lazányi, Eszter, Vagalinski, Boyan & Korsós, Zoltán 2012
2012
Loc

Chromatoiulus (Dittozus) taygetanus:

Attems 1940: 307
1940
Loc

Chromatoiulus taygetanus:

Ceuca 1992: 425
Strasser 1967: 286
Attems 1927: 224
1927
Loc

Brachyiulus taygetanus

Attems 1903: 136
1903
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