Endogeophilus Bonato, Zapparoli, Drago & Minelli, 2016

Iorio, Étienne & Bonato, Lucio, 2024, A new species of the rare genus Endogeophilus from southern France, with a key to the European genera of Geophilidae s. l. (Chilopoda), ZooKeys 1213, pp. 199-224 : 199-224

Endogeophilus Bonato, Zapparoli, Drago & Minelli, 2016

Diagnosis.

Geophilids with the following combination of characters: body remarkably narrow (length / width ratio ~ 70); setae relatively short (not surpassing 30 μm on the head); head slightly longer than wide; clypeus uniformly areolate; labrum with tubercles on the intermediate part and bristles on the side-pieces, which are distinct from the clypeus; second maxillary coxosternite with a long isthmus, without inner processes and without sclerotized ridges; pretarsus of second maxillae claw-like; forcipular tergite relatively broad (posterior margin about as wide as the subsequent tergite); forcipular coxosternite without anterior denticles, with complete coxopleural sutures distinctly diverging anteriorly, and with complete chitin-lines; forcipule with a single denticle, relatively small, on the tarsungulum; metasternites of the anterior part of the trunk with carpophagus pits and with pore-fields, a sub-ovoid / sub-triangular pore-field (approximately as long as wide or slightly longer than wide) on the posterior part of each metasternite; metasternites slightly longer than wide at ~ 20 % of the series of trunk segments;> 90 pairs of legs, all relatively short (length / width ratio of leg tarsi <2.5) and with slender accessory spines; metasternite of the ultimate leg-bearing segment trapezoid, wider than long; coxal organs opening through separate pores, most of them close to the metasternite, one isolated on the ventral side of the coxopleuron and some on the dorsal side; legs of the ultimate pair distinctly longer than the penultimate legs, with a claw-like pretarsus.

Type species.

Endogeophilus ichnusae Bonato, Zapparoli, Drago & Minelli, 2016 , by original designation.