A new millipede genus and species of the tribe Pachyiulini from the Caucasus (Diplopoda, Julida, Julidae)

Aleksandr P Evsyukov; Boyan Vagalinski; Igor Y Zabiyaka; Evgeniy V Sadyrin

doi:10.3897/zookeys.1097.81792

A new millipede genus and species of the tribe Pachyiulini from the Caucasus (Diplopoda, Julida, Julidae)

Zookeys. 2022 Apr 19:1097:47-63. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.1097.81792. eCollection 2022.

Authors

Aleksandr P Evsyukov¹, Boyan Vagalinski², Igor Y Zabiyaka³, Evgeniy V Sadyrin³

Affiliations

¹ Don State Technical University, Department of Biology and General Pathology, Rostov-on-Don, Russia.
² Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria.
³ Don State Technical University, Research and Education Center "Materials", Rostov-on-Don, Russia.

Abstract

A new genus and species of the millipede tribe Pachyiulini, Bellatoiulusgolovatchi gen. et sp. nov., is described from the Lesser Caucasus, Azerbaijan. Cybertypes of the new species are created from the physical holotype male and from a paratype female. The distribution and ecological features of the new species, and the position of the new genus within Pachyiulini are discussed.

Keywords: Azerbaijan; Bellatoiulusgolovatchi; cybertype; taxonomy.

Aleksandr P. Evsyukov, Boyan Vagalinski, Igor Y. Zabiyaka, Evgeniy V. Sadyrin.