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Issue: Vol. 419 No. 1: 30 Jan. 2004
Type: Article
Published: 2004-01-30
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.419.1.1
Page range: 1–8
Abstract views: 30
PDF downloaded: 3

The first indigenous species of the millipede genus Eurygyrus C.L. Koch, 1847 from the European mainland, with remarks on E. nicarius (Verhoeff, 1901) and E. euboeus (Verhoeff, 1901), and a key to the species of the genus (Diplopoda: Callipodida: Schizopetalidae)

National Museum of Natural History, Tsar Osvoboditel Blvd 1, 1000 Sofia, Bulgaria
Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Universitetsparken 15, DK-2100 København Ø, Denmark
Myriapoda Diplopoda Callipodida Eurygyrus taxonomy Peloponnese Greece

Abstract

The genus Eurygyrus C.L. Koch, 1847 (Schizopetalidae) comprises 17 described species from Asia Minor and the Aegean islands, some of them the largest callipodidans in the world. Here, we describe E. peloponnesius sp. n., the first species from the Greek mainland, found in the Taygetos Mts. The holotypes of E. euboeus (Verhoeff, 1901) and E. nicarius (Verhoeff, 1901), both known only from females, are re-examined and are found both to be distinct from the new species. A key to all, but two species of Eurygyrus is included.

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