Glomeris colorata Golovatch, Mauries, Akkari &amp; Stoev 2009, sp. n.
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
Glomeris colorata

description: <i>Glomeris colorata</i> Golovatch, Mauriès, Akkari &amp; Stoev, sp. n. urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: 672AFB57-3269-4D2C-89FB-BCDAA16D3DFC Figs 3-5 <b>Type material.</b> Tunisia, Siliana Gov., Jebel Sidi Aouidet (47 km from Siliana, road El Fahs-Siliana), 36°15’81″N, 9°46.46″E, alt. approx. 440 m, slope overgrown by conifers close to road, under stones, leaf litter, 28.III.2008, leg. P. Stoev and N. Akkari, holotype ♁ (MNHN CC 167), paratypes: 3 &amp;female; (MNHN CC 167), 2 &amp;female; (ZMUM), 1 &amp;female; (NMNH), 1 &amp;female; (ZMUC). Tunisia, Zaghouan Gov., Jebel Mansour, near Sidi Aouidet Village, 36°12’31″N, 9°45’59″E, alt. approx. 510 m. <i>Pinus</i> forest with <i>Rosmarinus officinalis</i> bushes, under stones and leaf litter, 28.III.2008, leg. N. Akkari and P. Stoev, paratypes: 6 &amp;female; (FMNH), 4 ♁, 1 &amp;female; (NMNH). <b>Name:</b> To emphasize the colourful tergal pattern. <b>Diagnosis:</b> Especially similar to <i>G. punica</i> and <i>G. flavomaculata</i>, based on the characteristic colour pattern (2+2 rows of spots on terga 2-11), but differs in the presence of a light axial line, of medially coalesced 1+1 spots on the pygidium and the lighter background coloration. <b>Description:</b> Length of adults of both sexes (extended, alcohol material) ranging between 9.5 (♁) and 10.0- 13.5 mm (&amp;female;), width between 4.7 (♁) and 5.0- 6.7 mm (&amp;female;); body broadest at thoracic shield. Holotype ca 9.5 mm long and 4.7 mm wide. Coloration (Figs 3, 4) variegated, mostly rather vivid, background usually dark brown, but sometimes mostly yellow due to expanded light spots. Head mostly light brown, evidently marbled near ocelli, with 1+1 and 2+2 small pallid spots against a light brown background just above antennal sockets; labrum pale yellowish; antennae largely dark brown, only tip pallid. Collum with a large, mostly marbled, yellowish central spot (Figs 3, 4). Thoracic shield with 2+2 large light spots, sometimes interconnected with a transversely oval marbled area in-between, but separated by a more or less evident, often incomplete, light axial line. Subsequent terga, except pygidium, with 1+1 more or less wide, light paramedian spots, usually arranged into clear stripes, a mostly interrupted and sometimes vague, light, axial line, and a pair of marbled, transversely oval, lateral areas. Pygidium with 1+1 light, paramedian, mostly coalesced spots (Fig. 4), less frequently nearly entirely light grey-brown. Venter and legs contrastingly light yellow. Head usual, transverse; Tömösváry’s organ transversely oval, slightly shorter than in <i>G. troglokabyliana</i> sp. n.; antennae long, antennomere 6 longest, 2.4-2.5 times long- er than wide; ocelli (4)5 black + 1 transparent, all convex. Collum with two transverse striae. Thoracic shield with a narrow hyposchism almost reaching caudal tergal contour (Fig. 5A); four transverse striae, of which 1-2 anteriormost starting well in front of schism and crossing entire dorsum, the other two always abbreviated (Fig. 5A); anteriormost stria only rarely slightly interrupted dorsally. Tergum 3 relatively narrowly (Fig. 5A) and tergum 4 broadly rounded laterally. Tergal pilosity and mid-dorsal sinuosity absent. Pygidium usually with a completely regularly rounded caudal margin, only rarely extremely faintly sinuated medially at margin. ♁ leg 17 (Fig. 5B) with a low outer coxal lobe; telopodite 4-segmented. ♁ leg 18 (Fig. 5C) with a broadly subtriangular syncoxital notch; telopodite 4-segmented. Telopods (Figs 5D) with a high, rather regularly rounded, bare, central syncoxital lobe flanked by two setose horns, latter each crowned with a minute bulb and a short setoid filament. Tarsus quite narrowly rounded apically. <b>Remarks:</b> Based on the narrow tergum 3, <i>G. colorata</i> sp. n. can be attributed to the “ <i>Stenopleuromeris</i> ” type.
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 pages 56-58, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.12.179, http://zenodo.org/record/576461