@article {827, title = {Five million years in the darkness: A new troglomorphic species of Cryptops Leach, 1814 (Chilopoda, Scolopendromorpha) from Movile Cave, Romania}, journal = {ZooKeys}, volume = {1004}, year = {2020}, month = {16/12/2020}, pages = {1-26}, abstract = {

A new species of Cryptops Leach, 1814, C. speleorex sp. nov., is described from Movile Cave, Dobrogea, Romania. The cave is remarkable for its unique ecosystem entirely dependent on methane- and sulfur-oxidising bacteria. Until now, the cave was thought to be inhabited by the epigean species C. anomalans, which is widespread in Europe. Despite its resemblance to C. anomalans, the new species is well-defined morphologically and molecularly based on two mitochondrial (cytochrome c oxidase subunit I COI and 16S rDNA) and one nuclear (28S rDNA) markers. Cryptops speleorex sp. nov. shows a number of troglomorphic traits such as a generally large body and elongated appendages and spiracles, higher number of coxal pores and saw teeth on the tibia of the ultimate leg. With this record, the number of endemic species known from the Movile Cave reaches 35, which ranks it as one of the most species-rich caves in the world.

}, keywords = {Biospeleology, Cryptops speleorex sp. nov., Dobrogea, molecular phylogenetics, new species, troglomorphism}, issn = {1313-2989}, doi = {10.3897/zookeys.1004.58537}, url = {https://zookeys.pensoft.net/article/58537/}, author = {Vahtera, Varpu and Stoev, Pavel and Akkari, Nesrine} } @article {414, title = {A troglobitic species of the centipede Cryptops (Chilopoda, Scolopendromorpha) from northwestern Botswana}, journal = {ZooKeys}, volume = {977}, year = {2020}, month = {22/10/2020}, pages = {25-40}, abstract = {

A new species of Cryptops, C. (Cryptops) legagus sp. nov., occurs in caves in the Koanaka and Gcwihaba Hills in northwestern Botswana. Bayesian molecular phylogenetics using 18S rRNA, 28S rRNA, 16S rRNA and cytochrome c oxidase subunit I corroborates a morphological assignment to the subgenus Cryptops and closest affinities to southern temperate species in South Africa, Australia and New Zealand. The new species is not conspicuously modified as a troglomorph.

}, keywords = {Biospeleology, Cryptopidae, molecular phylogenetics}, issn = {1313-2989}, doi = {10.3897/zookeys.977.57088}, url = {https://zookeys.pensoft.net/article/57088/}, author = {Edgecombe, Gregory D. and Akkari, Nesrine and Netherlands, Edward C. and Du Preez, Gerhard} } @article {401, title = {Une nouvelle esp{\`e}ce cavernicole du genre Autaretia Strasser, 1978 (Diplopoda: Chordeumatida: Craspedosomatidae) des Alpes-Maritimes (France)}, journal = {Biocosme m{\'e}sog{\'e}en}, volume = {34}, year = {2017}, pages = {37-46}, abstract = {

R\ésum\é \— Une deuxi\ème esp\èce appartenant au genre Autaretia Strasser, 1978 a \ét\é d\écouverte dans une grotte des Alpes-Maritimes (France). Sa description est accompagn\ée d\&$\#$39;une diagnose amend\ée du genre. Ce nouvel \él\ément vient enrichir nos connaissances sur la faune des Alpes-Maritimes, en particulier du Parc National du Mercantour, et s\&$\#$39;inscrit dans le cadre des inventaires et atlas des diplopodes de France, en cours d\&$\#$39;\élaboration.

Abstract \— A new cave-dwelling species of the genus Autaretia Strasser, 1978 (Diplopoda: Chordeumatida: Craspedosomatidae) from the French Maritime Alps. A second species of the genus Autaretia Strasser, 1978 (Diplopoda: Chordeumatida: Craspedosomatidae) has been discovered in a cave in the French Maritime Alps. The new species is described and an updated diagnosis of the genus is given. This interesting discovery improves our knowledge on the invertebrate fauna of the Maritime Alps, in particular of the Mercantour National Park, and is included as a new element in the checklist and atlas of the Diplopoda in France, in progress.

}, keywords = {Alpes-Maritimes, Autaretia, Biospeleology, Biosp{\'e}ologie, Diplopoda, Maritime Alps, Mercantour, Taxonomie, Taxonomy}, issn = {0762-6428}, author = {Geoffroy, Jean-Jacques and Mauri{\`e}s, Jean-Paul} } @article {281, title = {Premi{\`e}re d{\'e}couverte en France d{\textquoteright}un myriapode cavernicole du genre Mesoiulus Berlese, 1886 (Myriapoda: Diplopoda: Julida: Julidae)}, journal = {IKUSKA nouvelle collection}, year = {2020}, month = {01/03/2020}, pages = {43-52}, abstract = {

R\ésum\é: Le genre Mesoiulus Berlese, repr\ésent\é par plusieurs esp\èces dans le Pays Basque espagnol, est d\écouvert pour la premi\ère fois en France dans des grottes des Pyr\én\ées-Atlantiques. L\&$\#$39;esp\èce Mesoiulus cavernarum (Verhoeff, 1938) a \ét\é collect\ée dans deux localit\és proches de la fronti\ère franco-espagnole (Communes de Banca et Saint-Etienne-de-Ba\ïgarry). Ce travail s\&$\#$39;inscrit dans le cadre de l\&$\#$39;\étude de la biodiversit\é et de la r\épartition g\éographique des esp\èces list\ées dans les inventaires et atlas des myriapodes de France (Projet INAMYFRA). Les donn\ées in\édites en provenance du Pays Basque fran\çais fournissent des r\ésultats particuli\èrement int\éressants concernant la faune cavernicole troglophile et troglobie de la r\égion et portent \à 305 le nombre de diplopodes connus en France m\étropolitaine.

First ocurence in France of a cave-dwelling millipede of the genus \<i\>Mesoiulus\</i\> Berlese, 1886 (Myriapoda: Diplopoda: Julida: Julidae)

Abstract: Millipedes of the genus Mesoiulus Berlese, which is represented by several species in the Spanish Basque Country, has been discovered for the first time in France in caves of the department Pyr\én\ées-Atlantiques. The species Mesoiulus cavernarum (Verhoeff, 1938) has been sampled in two localities very close to the Franco-Spanish border in the municipalities of Banca and Saint-Etienne-de-Ba\ïgarry. This work is part of the research performed on the biodiversity and distribution of millipede species listed in the checklist and atlases of the French Myriapod Survey (INAMYFRA Project). Original data provided from the French Basque Country give particularly interesting results regarding the cave troglophiles and troglobionts of this area, increasing the number of millipedes known in metropolitain France up to 305 species.

}, keywords = {Basque Country, Biospeleology, Biosp{\'e}ologie, Cave-dwellers, Cavernicoles, Diplopodes, French Pyrenees, millipedes, Myriapodes, myriapods, Pays Basque, Pyr{\'e}n{\'e}es}, issn = {1149-896X}, author = {Geoffroy, Jean-Jacques} } @article {191, title = {Taxonomic status and behavioural documentation of the troglobiont Lithobius matulici (Myriapoda, Chilopoda) from the Dinaric Alps: Are there semiaquatic centipedes in caves?}, journal = {Zookeys}, volume = {848}, year = {2019}, month = {20/05/2019}, pages = {1-20}, abstract = {

Lithobius matulici Verhoeff, 1899 is redescribed based on type material and newly collected specimens. Strandiolus jugoslavicus Hoffer, 1937, described from another cave in the same region in Bosnia and Hercegovina, is presented as a junior subjective synonym of L. matulici (syn. nov.). L. matulici is shown to be most closely related to Lithobius remyi Jaw{\l}owski, 1933, type species of the subgenus Thracolithobius Matic, 1962. The completeness of the chitin-lines on the forcipular coxosternite is discussed as a promising character for interspecific differentiation within Lithobiomorpha. Documentation of hitherto unknown semiaquatic behaviour in L. matulici and other cave-dwelling centipede species from Herzegovinian-, Montenegrin- and Pyrenean caves is presented.

}, keywords = {Balkan Peninsula, Biospeleology, Cave, Lithobiomorpha, redescription, semiaquatic lifestyle, synonymy}, issn = {1313{\textendash}2989}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.848.33084}, url = {https://zookeys.pensoft.net/article/33084/}, author = {L{\'a}szl{\'o} D{\'a}nyi and Bal{\'a}zs, Gergely and Ivan Hadri{\'a}n Tuf} }