Acanthophorella Antic & Makarov 2016
Creators: name: Antić, Dragan
name: Margalitadze, Ana
name: Šević, Mirko
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Diplopoda
Chordeumatida
Anthroleucosomatidae
Acanthophorella

description: Key to the species of the genus Acanthophorella Antić & Makarov, 2016
Modified and refined after Antić & Makarov (2016) and Antić et al. (2023)
1. Unpigmented, whitish species. Presumed troglobionts........................................................ 2
– Pigmented, epigean species............................................................................. 8
2. Ommatidia pale brownish or transparent in adults, sometimes barely visible....................................... 3
– Ommatidia black in adults.............................................................................. 6
3. Coxal procesess of leg pair 7 with lateral rounded lobes and with smaller mesal lobes or teeth......................... 4
– Coxal procesess of leg pair 7 subquadrangular or subtriangular, without mesal lobes or teeth.......................... 5
4. Coxal procesess of leg pair 7 with small, rounded, mesal lobes; coxal processes of leg pair 10 in form of strongly developed, rounded lobes; medial parts of anterior gonopod angiocoxites distally rounded.......................... A. didi sp. nov.
– Coxal procesess of leg pair 7 with acuminate, mesal teeth; coxal processes of leg pair 10 subtriangular; medial parts of anterior gonopod angiocoxites distally subquadrangular................................ A. barjadzei Antić & Makarov, 2016
5. Coxal process of leg pair 7 subquadrangular; body macrochaete very long and trichoid................... A. eto sp. nov.
– Coxal process of leg pair 7 subtriangular; body macrochaete short and bacilliform........ A. devi Antić in Antić et al., 2023
6. Medial parts of anterior gonopod angiocoxites with well-developed, lateral, triangular projections and with distal pairs of processes strongly curved proximoposteriad; coxal processes of leg pair 10 spinelike................ A. spinicoxa sp. nov.
– Medial parts of anterior gonopod angiocoxites without lateral projections and without distal pair of processes; coxal processes of leg pair 10 not spinelike.............................................................................. 7
7. Coxal processes of leg pair 7 with mesal lobes; leg pair 10 with blunt coxal processes; angiocoxites of posterior gonopods very short, positioned posterolaterally, considerably shorter than colpocoxites............. A. valerii Antić in Antić et al., 2023
– Coxal processes of leg pair 7 axelike, without mesal lobes; leg pair 10 with short subtriangular processes; angiocoxites of posterior gonopods long, only slightly shorten than colpocoxites............................... A. gaumarjos sp. nov.
8. Angiocoxites of posterior gonopods wide, ear-shaped............................. A. aurita Antić in Antić et al., 2023
– Angiocoxites of posterior gonopods neither wide nor ear-shaped................................................ 9
9. Lateral lamellae of angiocoxites of anterior gonopods as high as medial parts of angiocoxites. Angiocoxites of posterior gonopods well developed, hook-shaped, curved anteriad......................... A. chegemi Antić & Makarov, 2016
– Lateral lamellae of anterior gonopods distinctly lower than medial parts. Coxal processes of posterior gonopods small, columnar................................................................ A. irystoni Antić & Makarov, 2016
description: Published as part of Antić, Dragan, Margalitadze, Ana & Šević, Mirko, 2025, Four new cavernicolous species of the genus Acanthophorella Antić & Makarov, 2016 (Diplopoda, Chordeumatida, Anthroleucosomatidae) from Georgia, Caucasus, pp. 41-69 in Zootaxa 5609 (1) on page 65, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5609.1.3, http://zenodo.org/record/15214762