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Highly Disjunct And Highly Infected Millipedes – A New Cave-Dwelling Species Of Chiraziulus (Diplopoda: Spirostreptida: Cambalidae) From Iran And Notes On Laboulbeniales Ectoparasites, Ana Reboleira, Mohamad Malek Hosseini, Saber Sadeghi, Henrik Enghoff
Highly Disjunct And Highly Infected Millipedes – A New Cave-Dwelling Species Of Chiraziulus (Diplopoda: Spirostreptida: Cambalidae) From Iran And Notes On Laboulbeniales Ectoparasites, Ana Reboleira, Mohamad Malek Hosseini, Saber Sadeghi, Henrik Enghoff
Ana Sofia P.S. Reboleira
Chiraziulus is a highly disjunct, hitherto monotypic genus of cambalid millipedes, geographically isolated in Iran by more than 7000 km from its presumed closest relatives in East Asia and North America. Recent fieldwork in caves of Iran has provided several specimens of this genus, allowing the description of Chiraziulus troglopersicus sp. nov. The intraspecific variability of the type species, C. kaiseri Mauriès, 1983, is illustrated with scanning electron micrographs. Chiraziulus is characterized by exceedingly long microtrichose gonopod flagella which from their insertion points on the posterior face of the anterior gonopod coxites first point distad instead of basad or basad-posteriad …
Redescription Of Lusitanipus Alternans (Verhoeff, 1893) (Diplopoda, Callipoda, Dorypetalidae) And Ecological Data On Its Laboulbeniales Ectoparasites In Caves, Ana Reboleira, Henrik Enghoff
Redescription Of Lusitanipus Alternans (Verhoeff, 1893) (Diplopoda, Callipoda, Dorypetalidae) And Ecological Data On Its Laboulbeniales Ectoparasites In Caves, Ana Reboleira, Henrik Enghoff
Ana Sofia P.S. Reboleira
The Portuguese endemic callipodidan millipede Lusitanipus alternans (Verhoeff, 1893) is redescribed, based on abundant new material collected in caves of central Portugal. The species is illustrated with comprehensive SEM images. The relationships of the genus Lusitanipus Mauriès, 1978 to other callipodidan genera of the subfamily Cyphocallipodinae Verhoeff, 1909 are discussed. The major part of the studied material is highly infected with ectoparasitic fungi of the order Laboulbeniales, we also include information about the infection in the subterranean ecosystem.