Megaphyllum glossulifer (Schubart, 1934)

Lazányi, Eszter & Vagalinski, Boyan, 2013, Redefinition of the millipede subgenus Megaphyllum sensu stricto Verhoeff, 1894 and neotype designation for Megaphyllum austriacum (Latzel, 1884) (Myriapoda: Diplopoda: Julida: Julidae), Zootaxa 3741 (1), pp. 55-100 : 73-74

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3741.1.2

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6151726

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scientific name

Megaphyllum glossulifer (Schubart, 1934)
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Megaphyllum glossulifer (Schubart, 1934) View in CoL

Figs 10a–g View FIGURES 10 a – g

Chromatoiulus glossulifer Schubart, 1934 : Schubart 1934b: 45–46, Fig. 11 View FIGURES 11 a – g . Chromatoiulus (Phauloiulus) glossulifer: Attems 1940: 307 .

Chromatoiulus glossulifer: Strasser 1966b: 330 , 381.

Megaphyllum glossulifer: Enghoff & Kime 2009 ; Lazányi et al. 2012: 13, 41.

Distribution. Bulgaria (Vagalinski & Stoev 2007, Lazányi et al. 2012).

Diagnosis. Differs from other members of the species group by the wider, stouter posterior opisthomere process (pp) ( Figs 10a–b, 10d View FIGURES 10 a – g ) compared to its generally slender, elongated condition in the remaining species.

Opisthomere’s ( Figs 10a–b, 10d View FIGURES 10 a – g ) posterior process (pp) broad, gradually narrowing, with a pointed tip, subequal to solenomere’s posterior process (psp). Anterior solenomere process (asp) very short.

Body length and height: males: 19–24mm, 1.4–1.85mm; females: 25–27mm, 2.2–2.4mm.

Remarks. This seems to be the smallest species of the subgenus, challenged only by M. sjaelandicum , for which similar though somewhat smaller values were measured. It is endemic to Bulgaria known only from the highest regions of Rila, Stara Planina and the Rhodope Mountains (Lazányi et al. 2012). Individuals collected from these three mountains showed no significant differences in their external morphometry and gonopodal details. The species is most similar to M. dentatum , considering the shape of the opisthomere. In M. glossulifer , however, the posterior opisthomere process is stouter, and the posterior solenomere process is shorter; the promere in contrast to M. dentatum is plain—rounded—, distally gradually narrowing, and without apical protrusions (see Fig. 10c View FIGURES 10 a – g in comparison with Fig. 9c View FIGURES 9 a – g ).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Diplopoda

Order

Julida

Family

Julidae

Genus

Megaphyllum

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