TY  - GEN
A1  - Bonato, Lucio
A1  - Zapparoli, Marzio
A1  - Drago, Leandro
A1  - Minelli, Alessandro
T1  - An unusually elongate endogeic centipede from Sardinia (Chilopoda: Geophilidae)
T2  - European journal of taxonomy : 231
N2  - Endogeophilus ichnusae gen. et sp. nov. (Chilopoda: Geophilidae sensu stricto) is described based on three specimens from two localities in south-western Sardinia, examined by light and scanning electron microscopy. The new centipede resembles the rare Ibero-Pyrenean genus Galliophilus Ribaut & Brolemann, 1927 in some features, especially in the forcipular segment, and the temperate European species Geophilus electricus (Linnaeus, 1758) in other features, especially in the ultimate leg-bearing segment. However, the true affinities of E. ichnusae gen. et sp. nov. are uncertain, because the new species departs significantly from the majority of geophilids for the higher number of legs (91–107 pairs in the specimens examined), the slender trunk segments (the sternites being longer than wide), the relatively stout legs (the tarsus being only about twice as long as wide) and the very short setae (≤ 15 mm) scattered on the body surface. All these features are probably derived and suggest adaptation to a more strictly endogeic habit than other geophilids.
T3  - European journal of taxonomy  : EJT - 231 
KW  - Geophilidae
KW  - morphology
KW  - taxonomy
KW  - Sardinia
KW  - endogeic
Y1  - 2016
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/46064
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-460643
SN  - 2118-9773
PB  - Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle
CY  - Paris
ER  -