Glomeris
Creators: name: Golovatch, Sergei
name: Mauriès, Jean-Paul
name: Akkari, Nesrine
name: Stoev, Pavel
name: Geoffroy, Jean-Jacques
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Diplopoda
Glomerida
Glomeridae
Glomeris

description: Key to the known <i>Glomeris</i> species of North Africa 1 Tegument entirely pallid, rarely only ocelli dark. Cavernicoles................... <b>2</b> – Head and terga distinctly pigmented, colour pattern evident, coloration mostly vivid. Epigean................................................................................. <b>3</b> 2 Collum with a single transverse stria. Syncoxital horns of telopod clearly bifid (Fig. 2D, E). Libya..................................................... <b> <i>G. monostriata</i> sp. n.</b> – Collum with the usual two transverse striae. Syncoxital horns of telopod surmounted with a setoid filament (Fig. 1F). Kabylia, Algeria....................................................................................................... <b> <i>G. troglokabyliana</i> sp. n.</b> 3 Colour pattern of terga 2-11 without evident, light, paramedian spots, but with alternating light and dark transverse bands (Figs 10, 12, 24).............. <b>4</b> – Colour pattern of terga 2-(6)11 with 1+1 or 2+2 more or less evident light spots (Figs 3, 4, 7, 15-17, 20-22, 26, 27)................................................... <b>5</b> 4 Coloration of caudal halves of terga distinctly marbled throughout (Figs 10, 12)........................................................................................... <i>G. klugii</i> – Transverse bands on terga at most only slightly marbled in contact zones (Fig. 24).......................................................................... <i>G. mohamedanica</i> 5 Unusually large yellowish to orange spots on tergum 6, following terga 7-11 uniformly blackish (Figs 20-22)...................................... <i>G. carthaginiensis</i> – Spots on tergum 6 of same size as on adjacent terga................................... <b>6</b> 6 Median spots on tergum 2 much smaller than lateral ones..... <i>G. anisosticta</i> – Either both pairs of spots on tergum 2 comparable in size or lateral ones (if present) smaller than median ones............................................................. <b>7</b> 7 Coloration uniformly blackish, lighter spots (1+1 or 2+2) very vague, marbled (Figs 15-18)................................................................... <i>G. sublimbata</i> – Background coloration brown to blackish, lighter spots more distinct........ <b>8</b> 8 Tergum 2 with a single central light spot against a black-brown background. Pygidium uniformly black-brown. Morocco......................... <i>G. brolemanni</i> – Tergum 2 with 2+2 light spots................................................................... <b>9</b> 9 Background coloration light to dark brown, drab, pattern as in Figs 26, 27.................................................................................................... <i>G. punica</i> – Background coloration dark brown to blackish, pattern vivid.................. <b>10</b> 10 Light axial stripe absent (Figs 6-8).................................... <i>G. flavomaculata</i> – Light axial stripe present (Figs 3, 4).................................. <b> <i>G. colorata</i> sp. n.</b>
description: Published as part of <i>Golovatch, Sergei, Mauriès, Jean-Paul, Akkari, Nesrine, Stoev, Pavel &amp; Geoffroy, Jean-Jacques, 2009, The millipede genus Glomeris Latreille, 1802 (Diplopoda, Glomerida, Glomeridae) in North Africa, pp. 47-86 in ZooKeys 12 (12)</i> on page 83, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.12.179, http://zenodo.org/record/576461