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Issue: Vol. 4420 No. 3: 17 May 2018
Type: Article
Published: 2018-05-17
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4420.3.7
Page range: 415–429
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Out of the dark void: Ommatoiulus longicornis n. sp., a new julid from Spain (Diplopoda, Julida) with notes on some troglobiomorphic traits in millipedes

Naturhistorisches Museum Wien, Burgring 7, 1010 Wien, Austria.
Section of Conservation Biology, Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Basel. St. Johanns-Vorstadt 10, CH-4056, Basel, Switzerland. 3Grupo de Investigación de Biología del Suelo y de los Ecosistemas Subterráneos. Departamento de Ciencias de la Vida. Facultad de Biología, Ciencias Ambientales y Química. Universidad de Alcalá. A.P. 20 Campus Universitario. E-28805. – Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain.
Grupo de Investigación de Biología del Suelo y de los Ecosistemas Subterráneos. Departamento de Ciencias de la Vida. Facultad de Biología, Ciencias Ambientales y Química. Universidad de Alcalá. A.P. 20 Campus Universitario. E-28805. – Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain.
Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Universitetsparken 15, DK-2100 København Ø, Denmark.
Myriapoda Schizophyllini Spain taxonomy new species troglomorphism

Abstract

A new millipede species, Ommatoiulus longicornis n. sp. is described from the subterranean habitat in eastern Spain, and the elongation of its antennae is discussed in relation to the habitat where it dwells. We take the occasion to discuss the elongation of appendages as a troglobiomorphic character in millipedes and shed the light on the various, sometimes controversial, hypotheses that could have led to these modifications in millipedes and other subterranean arthropods.

 

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