Ommatoiulus martensi Mauriès, 1969

Nesrine Akkari & Henrik Enghoff, 2017, Revision of the genus Ommatoiulus Latzel, 1884 (Julida, Diplopoda) in Portugal, with description of six new species, European Journal of Taxonomy 295, pp. 1-42 : 22

Ommatoiulus martensi Mauriès, 1969

Ommatoiulus martensi Mauriès, 1969: 332 –334, figs 6–10. — Mauriès 1971: 114.

Material examined

PORTUGAL: 2 ♂♂, 2 ♀♀, Coimbra, Serra da Estrela, 1900 m, 9 Jul. 1979. G. Osella leg. (MCSNV).

Comments

The examined specimens agree perfectly with the original description, type material and with neartopotypes examined by HE [Spain, Cantabria, Parque Nacional de los Picos de Europa, Fuente de El Cable, 22 Sep. 2014, V. Ortuño leg., (ZMUC)], and are the only ones of this species recorded from Portugal.

Ommatoiulus martensi was described from Santander in Spain, together with another species, Ommatoiulus haackeri Mauriès, 1969 from Col du Pourtalet in France at ca 435 km distance ( Mauriès 1969). Both species have subsequently been identified from several localities in Western Pyrenees in Spain ( O. martensi ) and from northern Spain and the Basque country ( O. haackeri ). These two species have nearly the same gonopod configuration with main differences lying in 1) shape of the apical process of the promerite; 2) length of the distal process of solenomerite and 3) shape of the lateral process of the paracoxite ( Mauriès 1969). After examination of several specimens we have failed to assign some of them to either haackeri or martensi with certainty. However, we assign the Portuguese species to O. martensi though a revision of the taxonomy of both (nominal) species is planned for a revision of the genus Ommatoiulus of northern Spain.