Gynotyphlus Coiffait, 1955

Gynotyphlus Coiffait, 1955: 72 .

Type species: Leptotyphlus perpusillus Dodero, 1900 . Original designation.

Oligotyphlus Scheerpeltz, 1940: 28 nomen nudum, no species designation.

syn. Oligotyphlus Scheerpeltz, 1956: 460 . Type species: Leptotyphlus perpusillus Dodero, 1900 . Validation of Oligotyphlus Scheerpeltz 1940 by inclusion of species and designation. Synonymy in Coiffait, 1959: 390.

syn. Austriacotyphlus Scheerpeltz, 1959: 4 . Type species: Austriacotyphlus piffli Scheerpeltz, 1959 . Original designation. Synonymy in Pace, 1983b: 43.

Gynotyphlus Coiffait: Coiffait, 1957: 61 (in key); Coiffait, 1959: 390 (redescription, key to subspecies of G. perpusillus); Coiffait, 1964: 696 (distribution); Coiffait, 1972: 617 (redescription, key to subspecies of G. perpusillus); Coiffait, 1984: 117 (distribution); Pace, 1996: 302 (redescription, key to subspecies of G. perpusillus of Italy).

Austriacotyphlus Scheerpeltz: Coiffait, 1972: 616 (redescription).

Diagnosis. Gular sutures confluent in anterior third of length of head capsule, from confluent point not prolonged ahead; labrum dentate; antennae short, with 11 antennomeres, antennomeres 5–10 strongly transverse, 5 wider than 4 and about as wide as 6, antennal club composed from 5 antennomeres, terminal antennomeres lacking sensorial appendages (phaneres); all tarsi with 3 tarsomeres. Genital armature of female indistinct.

Remarks. The genus has three species, all are present in the Balkan Peninsula. It is believed that the natural area of the distribution is southern France, Italy, the Balkans and Turkey and that the parthenogenetic species Gynotyphlus perpusillus was introduced in many countries in Europe.