Imazighenjapyx Sendra & Sánchez-García, 2023

Sendra, Alberto, Sánchez-García, Alba, Hoch, Hannelore, Jiménez-Valverde, Alberto, Selfa, Jesús, Moutaouakil, Soumia, Preez, Gerhard Du, Millar, Ian & Ferreira, Rodrigo Lopes, 2023, Life in darkness: an overview of cave-adapted japygids (Hexapoda, Diplura), European Journal of Taxonomy 894 (1), pp. 1-54 : 12

Genus Imazighenjapyx Sendra & Sánchez-García gen. nov.

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Type species

Imazighenjapyx marocanus Sendra & Sánchez-García gen. et sp. nov.

Diagnosis

Body large and elongate; epicuticle reticulate; abdominal segment X with micropores at high magnification. Antennae with 41 antennomeres; medial and distal antennomeres with a few ms and abundant s setae, plus two whorls of micro-barbed sM setae; apical antennomere with abundant placoid sensilla (up to 24). Pronotum, mesonotum, and metanotum with 5+5 M1−5. Prosternum with up to 72 M; meso-poststernum with up to 19 M; meso-intersternum with up to 22 M; mesosternum with up to 84 M; meta-poststernum with up to 26 M; meta-intersternum with up to 21 M; and metasternum with up to 99 M; scutum urotergite I with 1+1 M5; urotergite II with 10 M; urotergites III‒VII with 12 M; urite X with 17 M, ventral side with 52 M setae; urosternite I with up to 120 M setae on scutum, plus 200 sM setae on posterior position. Median glandular organ with abundant pseudospores; each lateral subcoxal organ with one row of glandular setae and one row of sensory setae; urosternites II‒III with about 140 M setae; urosternites IV‒VII with about 160 M setae; urosternite VIII with about 50 M setae between two well-defined carinae; cerci asymmetric with subsymmetric teeth, rectilinear along the proximal half, and curved in the distal half. Cerci with concave top side and with distal end up; right cercus with pointed medial tooth, predental margin bearing two rows of denticles; very protruded postdental margin looking like a scraper shape with a row of denticles; left cercus predental margin with three rows, postdental margin with small round denticles ending before the hook.

Etymology

The genus name is a combination of the prefix Imazighen and the suffix Japyx . Berbers call themselves Imazighen, which means ‘free men’ or ‘noble men’.