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Ana Sofia Reboleira

Beautiful new species of millipede from a cave in Iran

22/10/2015

 
Highly disjunct and highly infected millipedes – a new cave-dwelling species of Chiraziulus (Diplopoda: Spirostreptida: Cambalidae) from Iran and notes on Laboulbeniales ectoparasites
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Chiraziulus troglopersicus from Neyneh Cave in Zagros Mountains, Iran
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©Ana Sofia Reboleira/Natural History Museum of Denmark
Abstract
Chiraziulus is a highly disjunct, hitherto monotypic genus of cambalid millipedes, geographically isolated in Iran by more than 7000 km from its presumed closest relatives in East Asia and North America. Recent fieldwork in caves of Iran has provided several specimens of this genus, allowing the description of Chiraziulus troglopersicus sp. nov. The intraspecific variability of the type species, C. kaiseri Mauriès, 1983, is illustrated with scanning electron micrographs. Chiraziulus is characterized by exceedingly long microtrichose gonopod flagella which from their insertion points on the posterior face of the anterior gonopod coxites first point distad instead of basad or basad-posteriad as in most other flagelliferous Cambalidea (and Julida), then traverse a groove on the mesal surface of the anterior gonopod coxites, making a full (360°) loop. The same feature is also illustrated for the first time in the genus Cambala. The patterns and prevalence of the infection with a species of ectoparasitic fungus of the genus Rickia (order Laboulbeniales) in the type material of C. kaiseri is described. An updated review of the cave-adapted fauna of Iran is given. 

Key words. Cave-adapted, troglobiont, karst, Zagros, Iran, ectoparasitic fungus. 

Reference:
Reboleira A.S.P.S., Malek Hosseini M.J., Sadeghi S. & Enghoff H. 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: 1–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.5852/ ejt.2015.146

Millipedes and Laboulbeniales in caves

20/5/2015

 
Redescription of Lusitanipus alternans (Verhoeff, 1893) (Diplopoda, Callipoda, Dorypetalidae) and ecological data on its Laboulbeniales ectoparasites in caves
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Diplopodomyces veneris                                                                                                 Lusitanipus alternans
ABSTRACT
The Portuguese endemic callipodidan millipede Lusitanipus alternans (Verhoeff, 1893) is redescribed, based on abundant new material collected in caves of central Portugal. The species is illustrated with comprehensive SEM images. The relationships of the genus Lusitanipus Mauriès, 1978 to other callipodidan genera of the subfamily Cyphocallipodinae Verhoeff, 1909 are discussed. The major part of the studied material is highly infected with ectoparasitic fungi of the order Laboulbeniales, we also include information about the infection in the subterranean ecosystem.

Reference:
Reboleira A.S.P.S. & Enghoff H. (2015). Redescription of Lusitanipus alternans (Verhoeff, 1893) (Diplopoda, Callipoda, Dorypetalidae) and ecological data on its Laboulbeniales ectoparasites in caves. Zootaxa, 3957(5): 567–576. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3957.5.5 

New genus of subterranean millipede

2/4/2014

 
Sireuma, a new genus of subterranean millipedes from the Iberian Peninsula (Diplopoda, Chordeumatida, Opisthocheiridae)
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Sireuma nobile 
ABSTRACT
A new genus Sireuma is described to accommodate a new species, S. nobile, from a cave in Portugal. The unique features of the male gonopods and the absence of a postvulvar organ support the creation of a new genus. The new species is illustrated with scanning electron micrographs and diagrammatic drawings. Differences vis-à-vis its relatives are discussed, and information on the environment in which the new species was found is also provided.

Reference:
Reboleira A.S.P.S. & Enghoff H. (2014). Sireuma, a new genus of subterranean millipedes from the Iberian Peninsula (Diplopoda, Chordeumatida, Opisthocheiridae). Zootaxa, 3785(1): 79-86. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3785.1.6 

Two new species of subterranean millipedes

20/5/2013

 
Subterranean species of Acipes Attems, 1937 (Diplopoda, Julida, Blaniulidae)
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ABSTRACT
Two new blind, cave-dwelling species of the genus Acipes Attems, 1937, are described from the Algarve, southern Portugal: A. machadoi n. sp. and A. bifilum n. sp. Acipes andalusius Enghoff & Mauriès, 1999, is reported from the mesovoid shallow substratum in Alicante (Spain), 250 km from the type locality in Andalusia. 

Reference: 
Enghoff H. & Reboleira A.S.P.S. (2013). Subterranean species of Acipes Attems, 1937 (Diplopoda, Julida, Blaniulidae). Zootaxa, 3652(4): 485-491. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3652.4.6    

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The species Acipes machadoi is the biggest of its genus, in analogy to its great size is dedicated to the memory of Dr. António de Barros Machado.

António de Barros Machado, Doctor honoris causa by the University of Porto, was the pioneer of cave biology in Portugal, aside of an extraordinary cave explorer. 

For biographic  information, please consult the dossier at Mário Soares Foundation.

New species of subterranean millipede

7/5/2013

 
The genus Boreviulisoma Brolemann, 1928—an Iberian-N African outlier of a mainly tropical tribe of millipedes (Diplopoda: Polydesmida: Paradoxosomatidae)
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Boreviulisoma barrocalense
ABSTRACT
The genus Boreviulisoma Brolemann, 1928, is revised. The synonymy of Liliputia Attems, 1952, under Boreviulisoma is confirmed, but L. badia Attems, 1951, from Spain, is resurrected, as Boreviulisoma badium, from synonymy under B. liouvilleiBrolemann, 1928 (the type species of Boreviulisoma) from Morocco. Boreviulisoma barrocalense n. sp. is described from the subterranean environment of the Algarve, the southernmost province of Portugal. The distribution of the three known species of Boreviulisoma is mapped, main characters of the genus and its species are reviewed and a key to species of the genus is included. The isolated occurrence of Boreviulisoma badium and B. barrocalense n. sp. in the southern Iberian Peninsula, together with B. liouvillei and Eviulisoma abadi Mauriès, 1985, in Morocco, as northern outposts of the chiefly Afrotropical-Neotropical tribe Eviulisomatini, is discussed.


Reference:
Reboleira A.S.P.S. & Enghoff H. (2013). The genus Boreviulisoma Brolemann, 1928—an Iberian-N African outlier of a mainly tropical tribe of millipedes (Diplopoda: Polydesmida: Paradoxosomatidae). Zootaxa, 3646(5), 516–528. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3646.5.2
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