Banatodesmus jeanneli (Tabacaru, 1980)

Antic, Dragan, Vagalinski, Boyan, Stoev, Pavel & Akkari, Nesrine, 2022, A review of the cavernicolous Trichopolydesmidae (Diplopoda, Polydesmida) from the Carpathian-Balkan arch and the Rhodope Mountains, with descriptions of two new genera and three new species, ZooKeys 1097, pp. 1-46 : 1

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scientific name	Banatodesmus jeanneli (Tabacaru, 1980)
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Treatment

Figs 2 View Figure 2 , 3 View Figure 3 , 4 View Figure 4 , 17D View Figure 17 , 18 View Figure 18

Trichopolydesmus (Banatodesmus) jeanneli Tabacaru, 1980: 156, figs 1-3.

Trichopolydesmus jeanneli - Ceuca 1992: 416.

Trichopolydesmus (Banatodesmus) jeanneli - Giurginca 2021: 86, fig. 52 ( Banatodesmus obviously mistakenly listed as a subgenus, see below).

Banatodesmus jeanneli -Tabacaru 1996: 68, fig. 1A; Tabacaru et al. 2003: 133; Tabacaru and Giurginca 2016: 101, fig. 14C, D; Kime and Enghoff 2011: 72, 262.

Diagnosis.

As for the monospecific genus.

Material examined.

1 ♂, 1 ♀ (IZB), Romania, Banat , Moldova Noua , Peştera Haiducească de la Moldova Nouă Cave (= Gaura Turceasca, Grota Haiducilor), 44.7314, 21.7394, 28.X.2021, leg. D. Antić & D. Stojanović GoogleMaps , 1 ♂ (used for SEM, NHMW MY10257), same data as for the previous material GoogleMaps .

Distribution.

This species has been described and is still known only from two caves in the Banat Mountains in Romania, Peştera Haiducească de la Moldova Nouă and Peştera de la Lacul Dracului caves (Fig. 18 View Figure 18 ).

Remarks.

Originally, Banatodesmus was described as a subgenus of Trichopolydesmus Verhoeff, 1898 ( Tabacaru 1980). Later, Mauriès (1984) reasonably considered it as a separate genus, this being generally accepted today. Recently, in his book on Romanian millipedes, Giurginca (2021) referred to it as " Trichopolydesmus (Banatodesmus) jeanneli ". This was apparently a mistake, since in the rest of the text Banatodesmus was clearly treated as a genus.

The sample examined here is the first record of this taxon since its original description. Two males and one female were discovered at one of the two type localities, Peştera Haiducească de la Moldova Nouă Cave. It is interesting that all three specimens were collected not far from the entrance to the cave, within one square meter, near a small stream that flows through the cave. The female was found under a piece of rotten wood, while both males were taken from under two deeply embedded stones.

Although Tabacaru (1980) provided an excellent description and very fine drawings (Fig. 17D View Figure 17 ) of this taxon, the recently found specimens gave us the opportunity to document this taxon with photographs and SEM images of the habitus and gonopods (Figs 2 View Figure 2 - 4 View Figure 4 ).

As mentioned above, Bacillidesmus filiformis seems to show some habitual and gonopodal similarities with Banatodesmus . Both taxa share sensilla basiconica of antennomere 6 completely enclosed in the pit, paraprocts with only two long setae each, and hypoproct with only two long distal setae. In addition, the solenomeral branch and the solenophore are oriented mostly antero-posteriorly rather than meso-laterally to each other.

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Diplopoda
Order	Polydesmida
Family	Trichopolydesmidae
Genus	Banatodesmus