Clinopodes intermedius Dărăbanţu & Matic, 1969

Bonato, Lucio, Iorio, Étienne & Minelli, Alessandro, 2011, The centipede genus Clinopodes C. L. Koch, 1847 (Chilopoda, Geophilomorpha, Geophilidae): reassessment of species diversity and distribution, with a new species from the Maritime Alps (France), Zoosystema 33 (2), pp. 175-205 : 190

Clinopodes intermedius Dărăbanţu & Matic, 1969

TYPE MATERIAL AND TYPE LOCALITY. — 3 ♀♀, syntypes ; from “Măcin” (= Macin [ Romania]) (Dărăbanţu & Matic 1969) .

SYNONYMS. — None.

NOMINAL SUBSPECIES. — None.

MAIN REFERENCES. — Dărăbanţu & Matic 1969: 102 (in key), 104 (original description, as Clinopodes intermedius ); Matic 1972a: 76 (in key), 86 (redescription).

MATERIAL EXAMINED. — None.

DIAGNOSIS. — A Clinopodes species up to c. 7 cm long; 79-81 pairs of legs in the female; denticles of the forcipular coxosternite relatively short, wider than long; chitin-lines reaching the condyles; the largest sternal pore-fields on the posterior leg-bearing reaching the mid-length of the metasternite; almost all canals of the coxal organs converging into apparently four clusters aligned along the lateral margin of the metasternite; additionally, a single small pore on the ventro-lateral side of each coxopleuron, far apart from all the other pores and lateral to them. See also Table 3 and key to species.

GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION. — Dobrogea ( Romania) (only known from the type locality).

TAXONOMIC AND NOMENCLATURAL NOTES Clinopodes intermedius was originally described by Dărăbanţu & Matic (1969) and subsequently maintained as a valid species (e.g., Matic 1972a; Stoev 1997), even though it was frequently ignored and no other specimens were referred to it. Pending further investigations, the published accounts suggests that C. intermedius could be actually different from all other species of Clinopodes (see Table 3), and therefore it is maintained here provisionally as a distinct species.