Amblyiulus

Vagalinski, Boyan, Golovatch, Sergei, Simaiakis, Stylianos Michail, Enghoff, Henrik & Stoev, Pavel, 2014, Millipedes of Cyprus (Myriapoda: Diplopoda), Zootaxa 3835 (4), pp. 528-548 : 533

7. Amblyiulus sp. 1

Material examined. NHMG: 1 ♂, 5 ♀, 3 juv., ENE of Kato Platres, narrow brook in a ravine with bushy vegetation of Platanus orientalis , brambles, Eupteris etc., very rich litter, 900 m a.s.l. loc. 91, 30.IV.1981, HWW leg., BV det.

Taxonomic remarks. The species is certainly new to Cyprus, clearly differing from the other two Amblyiulus species occurring on the island— A. barroisi and A. aphroditae . It is possibly new to science as well, since we have failed to ascribe it to most of the species of Amblyiulus currently recognized as valid. However, because the brief original description of A. festae ( Silvestri, 1895) —a Lebanese species—lacks any illustrations, any comparison with the above sample is hampered. It should be noted, however, that the main descriptive features given by Silvestri for his A. festae agree with the characteristics of our specimens. Moreover, the author emphasized the similarity between the gonopods of A. barroisi and A. festae , the more rounded promere of the latter being the main difference. This is just as true for our still unidentified congener, in which the opisthomere is virtually indistinguishable from that of A. barroisi , but it has a smaller size and a very different colouration. A reexamination of type material of A. festae is the only way to securely reveal the identity of this interesting finding.