Skip to main content Skip to main navigation menu Skip to site footer
Responsive image
Issue: Vol. 4403 No. 2: 4 Apr. 2018
Type: Article
Published: 2018-04-04
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4403.2.4
Page range: 289–306
Abstract views: 72
PDF downloaded: 1

Dalmatosomatidae, a new monotypic family, and Dalmatosoma agaricum gen. et sp. nov. (Diplopoda: Chordeumatida: Craspedosomatidea) from Croatia, Balkan Peninsula

Institute of Zoology, University of Belgrade - Faculty of Biology, Studentski Trg 16, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia
Speleological Society “Špiljar”, 21000 Split, Croatia
Institute of Zoology, University of Belgrade - Faculty of Biology, Studentski Trg 16, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia
Myriapoda Dalmatosomatidae millipedes new family new genus new species caves Dalmatia Dinaric region

Abstract

A new millipede species, Dalmatosoma agaricum gen. et sp. nov., is described from a cave in Dalmatia (Croatia). The new taxon is clearly unique among chordeumatidans in both anterior and posterior gonopod structure and shows some noteworthy habitus features. We therefore here establish a new monotypic family, viz., Dalmatosomatidae, for the given taxon and place it within the suborder Craspedosomatidea. The new family is briefly discussed and compared with all other chordeumatidans.

 

References

  1. Absolon, K. & Jaroslav, L. (1932) Über Macrochaetosoma troglomontanum nov. gen. n. sp. (Diplopoda) aus dem südillyrischen Karstgebiet. Zoologischer Anzeiger, 101 (5–6), 137–143.

    Antić, D.Ž. & Makarov, S.E. (2016) The Caucasus as a major hotspot of biodiversity: Evidence from the millipede family Anthroleucosomatidae (Diplopoda, Chordeumatida). Zootaxa, 4211 (1), 001–205.
    https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4211.1.1

    Antić, D.Ž., Ćurčić, B.P.M., Mitić, B.M., Tomić, V.T., Lučić, L.R., Dudić, B.D., Stojanović, D.Z. & Makarov S.E. (2013a) A new cave diplopod species of the genus Brachydesmus Heller, 1858 from Southwest Serbia (Diplopoda: Polydesmida: Polydesmidae). Archives of Biological Sciences, Belgrade, 65 (2), 745–750.
    https://doi.org/10.2298/ABS1302745A

    Antić, D.Ž., Ćurčić, B.P.M., Tomić, V.T., Rađa, T., Rađa Biljana, Milinčić, M.A. & Makarov, S.E. (2013b) Two new species of Brachydesmus Heller, 1858 from the Balkan peninsula (Diplopoda: Polydesmida: Polydesmidae). Archives of Biological Sciences, Belgrade, 65 (3), 1233–1243.
    https://doi.org/10.2298/ABS1303233A

    Antić, D.Ž., Reip, H.S., Dražina, T., Rađa, T. & Makarov, S.E. (2014) Three new monotypic genera of Trichopolydesmidae from Croatia, Balkan Peninsula (Diplopoda, Polydesmida). Zootaxa, 3884 (2), 101–121.
    https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3884.2.1

    Antić, D.Ž., Tomić, V.T., Rađa, T., Lučić, L.R., Dudić, B.D. & Makarov, S.E. (2015a) A new species of the family Heterolatzeliidae from the Balkan Peninsula (Diplopoda, Chordeumatida). Zootaxa, 3904 (1), 147–150.
    https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3904.1.20

    Antić, D., Dražina, T., Rađa, T., Tomić, V.T. & Makarov, S.E. (2015b) Review of the family Anthogonidae (Diplopoda, Chordeumatida), with descriptions of three new species from the Balkan Peninsula. Zootaxa, 3948 (2), 151–181.
    https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3948.2.1

    Antić, D.Ž., Dražina, T., Pavković Lučić, S., Lučić, L.R. & Makarov, S.E. (2016a) Cave-dwelling millipedes (Myriapoda, Diplopoda) in the Dinaric Region: diversification and biogeographic features. In: 1st Dinaric Symposium on Subterranean Biology, Book of Abstracts, Zagreb, Croatia, 23–24 September 2016, pp. 9.

    Antić, D.Ž., Dražina, T., Rađa, T., Lučić, L.R. & Makarov, S.E. (2016b) Taxonomic status of the family Biokoviellidae Mršić, 1992 (Diplopoda, Chordeumatida): reconsideration, with a description of one new species. European Journal of Taxonomy, 205, 1–23.
    https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2016.205

    Bollman, C.H. (1893) The Myriapoda of North America. Government Printing Office Bulletin of the United States National Museum, 46, 1–210.

    Ceuca, T. (1967) Quelques autres Diplopodes nouveaux de la faune de la Roumanie. Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai / Series biologia, 12 (1), 107–117.

    Cook, O.F. (1896) On recent diplopod names. Brandtia, 2, 5–8.

    Enghoff, H. & Golovatch, S.I. (2015) Order Chordeumatida Pocock, 1894. In: Minelli, A. (Ed.), The Myriapoda. Treatise on Zoology —Anatomy, Taxonomy, Biology. Vol. 2. Brill, Leiden and Boston, pp. 408–420.
    https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004188273_017

    Gaston, K.J. & David R. (1994) Hotspots across Europe. Biodiversity Letters, 2, 108–116.
    https://doi.org/10.2307/2999714

    Gilgado, J.D., Ledesma, E., Enghoff, H., Mauriès, J.-P. & Ortuño V.M. (2017) A new genus and species of Haplobainosomatidae (Diplopoda: Chordeumatida) from the MSS of the Sierra de Guadarrama National Park, central Spain. Zootaxa, 4347 (3), 492–510.
    https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4347.3.4

    Golovatch, S.I. (1980) New forms of Diplopoda from the Soviet Far East and their zoogeographical relationship. Zoologicheskii Zhurnal, 59 (2), 199–207. [in Russian]

    Hewitt, G.M. (2000) The genetic legacy of the Quaternary ice ages. Nature, 405, 907–913.
    https://doi.org/10.1038/35016000

    Makarov, S.E. (2008). A new species of the diplopod subgenus Absurdodesmus Mršić, 1988 from a cave in the Tara Mountain, West Serbia (Diplopoda, Polydesmidae). In: Pavićević, D. & Perreau, M. (Eds.), Advances in the studies of the fauna of the Balkan Peninsula. Papers dedicated to the memory of Guido Nonveiller. Institute for Nature Conservation of Serbia, Belgrade, pp. 81–84.

    Makarov, S.E., Rađa, T., Rađa, B., Tomić, V.T., Mitić, B.M. & Ćurčić, B.P.M. (2007) Anamastigona radmani sp. n. (Diplopoda, Anthroleucosomatidae) from Croatia. Biologia, Bratislava, 62 (5), 581–587.
    https://doi.org/10.2478/s11756-007-0115-3

    Makarov, S.E., Ćurčić, B.P.M., Tomić, V.T., Rađa, T., Rađa, B., Ćurčić, S.B., Mitić, B.M. & Lučić, L.R. (2011) Revision of the family Heterolatzeliidae (Diplopoda, Chordeumatida). Zootaxa, 2994, 33–44.

    Makarov, S.E., Ćurčić, B.P.M., Antić, D.Ž., Tomić, V.T., Ćurčić, S.B., Ilić, B.S. & Lučić, L.R. (2013) A new cave species of the genus Hyleoglomeris Verhoeff, 1910, from the Balkan Peninsula (Diplopoda: Glomerida: Glomeridae). Archives of Biological Sciences, Belgrade, 65 (1), 341–344.
    https://doi.org/10.2298/ABS1301341M

    Mauriès, J.-P. (1966) Notes sur les Diplopodes pyreneens. III: Le sous-genre Ceratosphys Ribaut, 1920. Bulletin de la Société d'histoire naturelle de Toulouse, 102, 325–334.

    Mauriès, J.-P. (1966) Vandeleuma et Vascosoma, genres nouveaux des Grottes du pays basque Francais (Diplopoda-Craspedosomoidea). Annales de Spéléologie, 21, 631–641.

    Mauriès, J.-P. (1968) Documents inédits du professeur H. Ribaut: I. Description de Ceratosphys hispanica Ribaut, 1920 (Diplopoda-Craspedosomoidea). Bulletin de la Société d'histoire naturelle de Toulouse, 104, 65–68.

    Mauriès, J.-P. (1987) Craspedosomid millipedes discovered in Australia: Reginaterreuma, Neocambrisoma and Peterjohnsia, new genera (Myriapoda: Diplopoda: Craspedosomida). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, 25 (1), 107–133.

    Mauriès, J.-P. (2003) Schizmohetera olympica sp. n. from Greece, with a reclassification of the superfamily Neoatractosomatoidea (Diplopoda: Chordeumatida). Arthropoda Selecta, 12 (1), 9–16.

    Mauriès, J.-P. (2013) Le genre Ceratosphys Ribaut, 1920: trois nouveaux taxa de Catalogne et des Iles Baléares (Diplopoda, Craspedosomatida, Opisthocheiridae). Bulletin de la Société d'histoire naturelle de Toulouse, 148, 47–57.

    Mock, A., Tajovský, K., Žurovcová, M., Jarošová, A., Kocourek, P., Gruber, J., Angyal, D. & Spelda, J. (2016) Hungarosoma bokori Verhoeff, 1928 (Diplopoda: Chordeumatida): new insights into its taxonomy, systematics, molecular genetics, biogeography and ecology. Zootaxa, 4178 (2), 234–256.
    https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4178.2.4

    Mršić, N. (1987) Genus Ochogona Cook 1895 (Craspedosomatidae, Diplopoda) of Yugoslavia. Glasnik Prirodnjačkog Muzeja u Beogradu, Serija B, Bioloske nauke, 42, 51–74.

    Mršić, N. (1992) Biokoviella mauriesi gen. nov., sp. nov. (Biokoviellidae fam. nov.), Macrochaetosomatinae subfam. nov. (Anthogonidae) and superfamily Cleidogonoidea (Craspedosomidea, Diplopoda) of the western Balkans. Razprave IV. Razreda Sazu 33, 51–91.Ribaut, H. (1920) Notes sur les Chordeumoides de France. Bulletin de la Société d'histoire naturelle de Toulouse, 48, 18–34.

    Savić, I.R. (2008) Diversification of the Balkan fauna: its origin, historical development and present status. In: Makarov, S.E. & Dimitrijević, R.N. (Eds.), Advances in Arachnology and Developmental Biology, Papers Dedicated to Prof. Dr. Božidar P. M. Ćurčić. Institute of Zoology, Faculty of Biology, University of Belgrade/Committee for karst and speleology, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts/ UNESCO MAB Committee Serbia/ Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Vienna/ Institute of Zoology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Belgrade/Vienna/Sofia, pp. 39–57.

    Shear, W.A. (1988) The Chordeumatid millipeds of Chile (Diplopoda, Chordeumatida). American Museum Novitates, 2912, 1–10.

    Shear, W.A. (1988) Golovatchia, new genus, and Golovatchiidae, new family, from the Far East of the Russian Republic, with a comment on Hoffmaneumatidae (Diplopoda, Chordeumatida). Myriapodologica, 2 (10), 63–72.

    Shear, W.A. (2000) On the millipede family Heterochordeumatidae, with comments on the higher classification of the order Chordeumatida (Diplopoda). Invertebrate Taxonomy, 14 (3), 363–376.
    https://doi.org/10.1071/IT99016

    Shear, W.A. (2003a) A second species of the rare milliped family Apterouridae (Diplopoda: Chordeumatida: Striarioidea). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 116 (2), 509–514.

    Shear, W.A. (2003b) Branneria bonoculus, n. sp., a second species in the North American milliped family Branneriidae (Diplopoda: Chordeumatida: Brannerioidea). Zootaxa, 233 (1), 1–7.
    https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.233.1.1

    Shear, W.A. & Leonard, W.P. (2003) Microlympiidae, a new milliped family from North America, and Microlympia echina, new genus and species (Diplopoda: Chordeumatida: Brannerioidea). Zootaxa, 243 (1), 1–11.
    https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.243.1.1

    Sket, B., Paragamian, K. & Trontelj, T. (2004) A census of the obligate subterranean fauna in the Balkan Peninsula. In: Griffiths, H.I. & Krystufek, B. (Eds.), Balkan Biodiversity. Pattern and Process in Europe's Biodiversity Hotspot. Kluwer Academic Publishers B.V., Dordrecht, pp. 309–322.
    https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-2854-0_18

    Spelda, J. (2001) Review of the millipede genus Pterygophorosoma Verhoeff, 1897 (Diplopoda, Chordeumatida, Craspedosomatidae). Andrias, 15, 29–48.

    Strasser, K. (1966) Neue Diplopoden aus Höhlen Jugoslawiens. Senckenbergiana biologica, 47 (5), 379–398.

    Verhoeff, K.W. (1899) Beiträge zur Kenntniss paläarktischer Myriopoden. VIII. Aufsatz: Zur vergleichenden Morphologie, Phylogenie, Gruppen- und Art-Systematik der Chordeumiden. Archiv für Naturgeschichte, 65 (1), 95–154.

    Verhoeff, K.W. (1928) Zur Kenntnis der Diplopodenfauna Ungarns. 109. Diplopoden-Aufsatz (Chilopoden). Allattani Közlemények, 25 (3–4), 182–199.

    Verhoeff, K.W. (1926–1932) Gliederfüßler: Arthropoda, II. Abteilung: Myriapoda. 2. Buch: Diplopoda. In: Bronn, H.G. (Ed.), Klassen und Ordnungen des Tierreichs. Klassen und Ordnungen des Tierreichs, 5 (2), pp. 1–2084.