TY  - JOUR
A1  - Sendra, Alberto
A1  - Sánchez-García, Alba
A1  - Hoch, Hannelore
A1  - Jiménez-Valverde, Alberto
A1  - Selfa, Jesús
A1  - Moutaouakil, Soumia
A1  - Du Preez, Gerhard
A1  - Millar, Ian
A1  - Ferreira, Rodrigo Lopes
T1  - Life in darkness: an overview of cave-adapted japygids (Hexapoda, Diplura)
T2  - European journal of taxonomy
N2  - Few species of Japygidae (Diplura) have been discovered in cave ecosystems despite their importance as large predators. A small collection of rare specimens of this hexapod group has allowed to explore the taxonomy of japygids from caves in New Zealand, Morocco and South Africa, and to describe one new genus: Imazighenjapyx Sendra & Sánchez-García gen. nov., as well as four new species: Austrjapyx wynbergensis Sendra & Sánchez-García sp. nov., Imazighenjapyx marocanus Sendra & Sánchez-García gen. et sp. nov., Opisthjapyx naledi Sendra & Sánchez-García sp. nov. and Teljapyx aotearoa Sendra & Sánchez-García sp. nov. For each of the new taxa we give a comprehensive description of their habitats. These new findings resulted in a revision of the distribution and allowed to re-evaluate the morphological traits of the fifteen cave-adapted japygids species already known worldwide. The functional morphology of the remarkable abdominal pincers of Japygidae and their adaptation to predation are discussed, as well as their potential role in mating behaviour.
T3  - European journal of taxonomy  : EJT - 894 
KW  - Japygidae
KW  - taxonomy
KW  - phylogeny
KW  - cave-dwelling
KW  - biogeography
Y1  - 2023
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/72259
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-722597
SN  - 2118-9773
VL  - 2023
IS  - 894
SP  - 1
EP  - 54
PB  - Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle
CY  - Paris
ER  -