Chiraziulus Mauriès, 1983

Reboleira, Ana Sofia P. S., Hosseini, Mohamad Javad Malek, Sadeghi, Saber & Enghoff, Henrik, 2015, Highly disjunct and highly infected millipedes - a new cave-dwelling species of Chiraziulus (Diplopoda: Spirostreptida: Cambalidae) from Iran and notes on Laboulbeniales ectoparasites, European Journal of Taxonomy 146, pp. 1-18 : 3-4

Genus Chiraziulus Mauriès, 1983

Nannolene (Chiraziulus) Mauriès, 1983: 250

Chiraziulus (as full genus) – Mauriès 1987: 197.

Type species

Nannolene (Chiraziulus) kaiseri Mauriès, 1983 .

Diagnosis

A genus of medium-sized blind cambalid millipedes resembling the Nearctic genus Nannolene , with longitudinal crests on the body rings and ozopores placed on prominent tubercles ( Fig. 1 ). Sharing with Nannolene remarkably long gonopodal flagella, which make a complete loop (360°) from their insertion points on the anterior gonopods towards the interior part of the posterior gonopods, differing from Nannolene by having the coxites of the anterior gonopods larger than the telopodites. First pair of male legs not modified.

Distribution

Iran ( Fig. 2 ).

Figures

Fig. 1. Habitus of Chiraziulus troglopersicus sp. nov., paratype.

Fig. 2. Distribution of species of Chiraziulus Mauriès, 1983 in Iran (Mauriès 1987). C. troglopersicus sp. nov.: red dot (1); C. kaiseri: yellow dots (2–6). 1. Neyneh Cave. 2. “Chiraz” “montagne greseuse au nord de la ville”. 3. 19 km W of Shiraz. 4. 5 km N of Persepolis. 5. Oasis 95 km N of Bandarabass. 6. Sarab Cave.