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Issue: Vol. 5239 No. 2: 9 Feb. 2023
Type: Article
Published: 2023-02-09
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5239.2.3
Page range: 221-246
Abstract views: 319
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A review of the genus Micropachyiulus Verhoeff, 1899 and description of the related Armeniopachyiulus gen. nov. (Diplopoda: Julida: Julidae: Pachyiulini)

Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 2 Gagarin Street, 1113, Sofia, Bulgaria.
Don State Technical University, Department “Biology and general pathology”, Gagarin Square 1, Rostov-on-Don 344003, Russia.
Caucasian State Nature Biosphere Reserve, Research Department, Sovetskaya Street 187, Maikop, Republic of Adygea, 385000, Russia. Maikop State Technological University, Pervomayskaya Street 191, Maikop, Republic of Adygea, 385000, Russia.
Don State Technical University, Department of Electron and Light Microscopy, Gagarin Square 1, Rostov-on-Don 344003, Russia.
Carpathians Caucasus Hylopachyiulus millipedes new combination new genus new species taxonomy Diplopoda

Abstract

The European millipede genus Micropachyiulus Verhoeff, 1899 is revised based on type and non-type material, and on the available literature. The genus Hylopachyiulus Attems, 1904 is established as a junior subjective synonym of Micropachyiulus, syn. nov. Micropachyiulus ocellatus (Antić & Akkari, 2018) is thus listed as a new combination, comb. nov. Two new species—Micropachyiulus caucasicus sp. nov. and M. filiformis sp. nov.—are described from Russia and Romania, respectively. In addition, a presumably closely related monospecific genus, Armeniopachyiulus gen. nov., and its sole species A. pokr gen. et sp. nov. are described from Armenia. A brief discussion on the systematics and distribution of the studied taxa is presented.

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