Micropachyiulus pygmaeus (Attems, 1904)
- Dataset
- GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Arthropoda
- class
- Diplopoda
- order
- Julida
- family
- Julidae
- genus
- Hylopachyiulus
- species
- Hylopachyiulus pygmaeus
diagnosis
Diagnosis. A species of Micropachyiulus without ommatidia. Differs from all congeners by a relatively welldifferentiated mesomeral process being clearly divided from the opisthomere in its distal half, vs. the mesomeral process being mostly fused to the opisthomere, with only a small freely protruding apical part in the remaining species. Otherwise very similar to Micropachyiulus corylorum, Micropachyiulus ocellatus comb. nov. and Micropachyiulus paucioculatus in terms of gonopod conformation, and especially in the shape of the solenomere which ends up with a minute, transversely oriented apical projection. Differs easily from M. ocellatus comb. nov. by a long and pointed (vs. short and blunt) epiproct, and from M. paucioculatus — by a much shorter solenomere (subequal to tip of mesomeral process and apical margin of posterior lamella, vs. considerably overreaching both of them). Differs from M. corylorum, by a slender and straight (vs. stout and bent ventrad) epiproct and by details of the opisthomere: absence of a rod-like process next to the solenomere and solenomere and mesomeral process subequal in height (vs. solenomere considerably overreaching tip of mesomeral process).
distribution
Distribution (Fig. 14, cyan circle). Bosnia and Herzegovina: Banja Luka (type locality).