Balkanodesminus dentatus (Strasser, 1966a) gen. nov., comb. nov., 2022

Antic, Dragan, Vagalinski, Boyan, Stoev, Pavel & Akkari, Nesrine, 2022, A review of the cavernicolous Trichopolydesmidae (Diplopoda, Polydesmida) from the Carpathian-Balkan arch and the Rhodope Mountains, with descriptions of two new genera and three new species, ZooKeys 1097, pp. 1-46 : 1

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scientific name	Balkanodesminus dentatus (Strasser, 1966a) gen. nov., comb. nov.
status	stat. nov.

Treatment

Balkanodesminus dentatus (Strasser, 1966a) gen. nov., comb. nov. View in CoL stat. nov.

Figs 17L View Figure 17 , 18 View Figure 18

Bacillidesmus bulgaricus dentatus Strasser, 1966a: 341, figs 16, 17.

Bacillidesmus bulgaricus dentatus in part.- Stoev 2007: 384; Beron 2015: 80, 411; Bachvarova et al. 2017: 521.

Bacillidesmus dentatus in part.- Ceuca 1992: 416; Kime and Enghoff 2011: 71, 262.

Bacillidesmus bulgaricus dentatus not Bacillidesmus bulgaricus dentatus - Stoev 2004: 149.

Diagnosis.

Differs from Balkanodesminus bulgaricus gen. nov., comb. nov. and B. serbicus gen. nov. et sp. nov. by the presence of shorter (vs. longer) metatergal setae and their greater (vs. smaller) number of rows, as well as by the presence of more complicated (vs. more simplified) gonopods, with biramous (vs. uniramous) distal solenomeral process and larger and denticulated (vs. smaller and smooth) lamella of solenophore. From B. dentatoides gen. nov. et sp. nov., with which it shares similar habitus and similar gonopods, it differs by the presence of more robust (vs. slenderer) solenomere, by short process (vs. triangular tooth) on distal solenomeral process, and by the presence (vs. absence) of additional short subdistal process at distal projection of solenophore. In addition, lateral lamella and basal lobe less developed than in B. dentatoides gen. nov. et sp. nov.

Material examined.

1 ♀, 1 juv. (NMNHS-10814), Bulgaria, Vratsa District, Byala Slatina Municipality, Drashan, Drashanskata peshtera Cave (type locality), 22.IX.1992, leg. P. Beron.

Distribution.

So far, this species is known only from its type locality, Drashanskata peshtera Cave (Fig. 18 View Figure 18 ).

Remarks.

Originally described as a subspecies, Bacillidesmus bulgaricus dentatus . Strasser (1966a) pointed out significant differences in the structure of the gonopod between Bacillidesmus bulgaricus and Bacillidesmus dentatus , as well as differences in body size. However, he did not notice the differences in the length and arrangement of metatergal setae between the two taxa. The descriptions of the two new species below, one of which is similar to Bacillidesmus bulgaricus in body size, habitus and gonopods, and the other one to Bacillidesmus dentatus , clearly indicate the presence of two groups of species within this genus.

As mentioned above, Ceuca (1992), and Kime and Enghoff (2011) treated this taxon as a separate species, Bacillidesmus dentatus , without, however, any formal taxonomic act. For the sake of stability of nomenclature here we formally raise this taxon to the species level and transfer it to the newly established genus as Balkanodesminus dentatus gen. nov., comb. nov., stat. nov.

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Diplopoda
Order	Polydesmida
Family	Trichopolydesmidae
Genus	Balkanodesminus