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476B87CB3239F835B49CB91A17CEF9B2.text	476B87CB3239F835B49CB91A17CEF9B2.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Balkanodesmus Antic and Reip 2014	<div><p>Balkanodesmus Antić and Reip, gen. n.</p><p>Type species: Balkanodesmus biokovensis Antić and Reip, new species, by present designation. Etymology: The new genus is named after the region of its type locality, Balkan Peninsula, and is masculine in gender.</p><p>Diagnosis: 19 segments (♂, ♀). This genus differs from all other European trichopolydesmids by the presence of a long, unipartite acropodite with three levels of lamellae with associated short triangular denticles in the middle part.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/476B87CB3239F835B49CB91A17CEF9B2	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Antić, Dragan Ž.;Reip, Hans S.;Dražina, Tvrtko;Rađa, Tonći;Makarov, Slobodan E.	Antić, Dragan Ž., Reip, Hans S., Dražina, Tvrtko, Rađa, Tonći, Makarov, Slobodan E. (2014): Three new monotypic genera of Trichopolydesmidae from Croatia, Balkan Peninsula (Diplopoda, Polydesmida). Zootaxa 3884 (2): 101-121, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3884.2.1
476B87CB3239F831B49CBAB313ADFF00.text	476B87CB3239F831B49CBAB313ADFF00.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Balkanodesmus biokovensis Antic and Reip 2014	<div><p>Balkanodesmus biokovensis Antić and Reip, sp. n.</p><p>Figs. 1 –12</p><p>Material examined: Holotype male: Amfora Pit, Saint Jure, Mt. Biokovo, Croatia, 43.341°N, 17.050°E, 14.VII.2008, leg. J. Bedek (IZB, VHD BB 100-2). Allotype female: same data as holotype, but 17.VII.2008, leg. M. Lukić (IZB, VHD BB 100-3). Paratype juvenile female: same data as holotype (IZB, VHD BB 100-4).</p><p>Etymology: After Mt. Biokovo, the type locality.</p><p>Description. Body with 19 segments (including telson) in adults (paratype juvenile female with 18 segments). Measurements: holotype male 17.8 mm long, width of midbody pro- and metazonites (segment nine) 1.0 mm and 1.4 mm; allotype female 17.9 mm long, width of midbody pro- and metazonites (segment nine) 1.0 mm and 1.4 mm; paratype juvenile female 12.9 mm long, width of midbody pro- and metazonites (segment nine) 0.8 mm and 1.1 mm, respectively.</p><p>Coloration: Body whitish, slightly translucent, with a visible gut; head light brownish with whitish antennae.</p><p>Head: Broader than collum, covered with fine short and some longer setae. Occipital suture distinct. Labrum with only one long, medial, laterally flattened and ventrally curved tooth; two paramedian, short, blunt setae, one on each side of the tooth. Tooth significantly darker than labrum (Fig. 12). Gnathochilarium (in allotype female) densely setose. Setae robust. Promentum almost triangular, with four setae in one medial row. Stipites with more than 30 setae each. Lingual plates with about 20 setae each, with a long, paramedian, subapical seta on each plate and with one long, paramedian, apical, setiform, distally branching process on each plate. External palps with 18+18, medial palps with 15+15, internal palps with 4+4 papillae. Internal palps bearing one long seta crossing medially. Hypopharynx with strongly developed, long and thin fringes (Fig. 11). Antennae elongated; in holotype male 2.5 mm long. Antennomeres II–VI club-like, elongated; antennomere VII cylindrical and shorter. Antennomeres V and VI with few longer setae; antennomere VI with a distodorsal pit with numerous bacilliform sensilla. Antennomere VII with one longer seta and a distodorsal pad with few setiform setae. Apical part of antennae with four large apical cones. Length/width ratios of antennomeres I–VII: I (0.7), II (3.1), III (3.5), IV (2.5), V (2.1), VI (1.7), VII (1.7), respectively.</p><p>Collum: Transversely subovoid; one caudal incision on lateral sides, with three rows of setae on small tubercles, setal formula: 8+8+8.</p><p>Body segments: Segments II–IV with three rows of medium-sized trichoid setae on small tubercles while segments V–XVIII with mainly four, partly five, irregular transverse rows of setae. Pleurosternal carinae with welldeveloped triangular teeth present on each side of segments II–XVII. Apodous (XVIII) segment without pleurosternal carinae. Number of teeth variable not only between specimens and segments of same specimen, but also between right and left sides of same segment. Number of teeth in holotype male: segments II and III (6/6); IV (5/5); V and VI (7–9); VII (5/7); VIII–XI (8–10); XII–XIV (10–12); XV–XVII (8–9), respectively. Prozonite slightly punctate. Stricture distinct. Paraterga with three dorsolaterally positioned, laterally directed cones; each bearing one seta. Last cone on each poriferous metazonite enlarged and bearing an ozopore and 3–4 setae. These enlarged cones also contain reactivation chambers of the defense mechanism. Pore formula normal: V, VII, IX, X, XII, XIII, XV–XVIII. Epiproct short, but protruding beyond paraprocts, slightly curved caudoventrally; subtriangular in dorsal view, truncate at tip, dorsally with long setae. Tip of epiproct with 2+2 spinnerets. Paraprocts semi-circular, smooth, each with two setae. Hypoproct subtrapeziform, with four long apical setae. Sterna unmodified. Epigynal ridge elevated.</p><p>Walking legs: Long and slender, without modified setae. Femora and tarsi elongated, claws medium-sized and clearly infuscate.</p><p>Gonopods: Gonopod aperture large, transverse-oval, taking up circa 2/3 of ventral part of metazonite VII. Gonocoxa large, exposed, subglobose, with two distofrontal setae and one distocaudal seta, with neither additional processes nor protruding parts. Prefemoral part (pf) slender, held transversely to body axis, curved caudally, with almost straight margins. First 1/3 smooth, second 1/3 only with apical setae, remaining 1/3 densely setose. Acropodite (a) erect, long, unipartite and parallel-sided; directed frontally. Basal part with setae and a narrow, longitudinal, mesal lamella (ll) reaching the first, most shallow and widest (basal) lamella (bl) in middle part of acropodite. A second, deeper and narrower (middle) lamella (ml) above bl and the narrowest and deepest (apical) lamella (al) above ml. Seminal canal probably opening at base of al. Solenomere absent. Apart from ml, middle part of acropodite bearing characteristic, short, triangular denticles (d) associated with ml and al. Apical part of acropodite long and slender, with two apical lobes (lo) and a mesally directed, triangular, acute tip (tp).</p><p>Habitat: Amfora Pit, where Balkanodesmus biokovensis was collected, is a 788-meter deep. The entrance of the pit is situated at an altitude of 1,620 m. All three specimens were collected between a depth of 100 to 400 meters. The almost stable air temperature ranged from 5.1 to 5.4°C (Lukić et al. 2010). This pit hosts another endemic troglobitic diplopod, Biokoviella mauriesi Mršić, 1992 . Amfora Pit is also the type locality for the interesting, highly troglomorphic collembolan, Tritomurus veles Lukić, Houssin &amp; Deharveng, 2010 (Lukić et al. 2010) . Furthermore, other notable troglobitic taxa are present in the pit (Lukić et al. 2010), such as: Zospeum sp.</p><p>( Gastropoda), Protoneobisium biocovense (Müller, 1931), Neobisium peruni Ćurčić, 1988 (both Pseudoscorpiones), Speoplanes giganteus biocovensis Müller, 1934, Radziella styx Casale &amp; Jalžić,1989 (both Coleoptera, Leiodidae) and Biokovoaphaenopsis radici Jalžić, 1993 ( Coleoptera, Carabidae).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/476B87CB3239F831B49CBAB313ADFF00	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Antić, Dragan Ž.;Reip, Hans S.;Dražina, Tvrtko;Rađa, Tonći;Makarov, Slobodan E.	Antić, Dragan Ž., Reip, Hans S., Dražina, Tvrtko, Rađa, Tonći, Makarov, Slobodan E. (2014): Three new monotypic genera of Trichopolydesmidae from Croatia, Balkan Peninsula (Diplopoda, Polydesmida). Zootaxa 3884 (2): 101-121, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3884.2.1
476B87CB323DF832B49CBB6513C9FEE5.text	476B87CB323DF832B49CBB6513C9FEE5.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Solentanodesmus Antic and Reip 2014	<div><p>Solentanodesmus Antić and Reip, gen. n.</p><p>Type species: Solentanodesmus insularis Antić and Reip, new species, by present designation. Etymology: The new genus is named after its type locality, the island of Šolta (in Latin Solentae), and is masculine in gender.</p><p>Diagnosis: 19 segments (♂, ♀). This genus can be distinguished from the other Trichopolydesmidae by the presence of very small, gracile, crossed or almost crossed gonopods, each with a long and slender process between the prefemoral part and acropodite, and with a long, flagelliform, apical part of the acropodite; a cannula is absent while the seminal canal opens at the border between the basal and apical parts of the acropodite.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/476B87CB323DF832B49CBB6513C9FEE5	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Antić, Dragan Ž.;Reip, Hans S.;Dražina, Tvrtko;Rađa, Tonći;Makarov, Slobodan E.	Antić, Dragan Ž., Reip, Hans S., Dražina, Tvrtko, Rađa, Tonći, Makarov, Slobodan E. (2014): Three new monotypic genera of Trichopolydesmidae from Croatia, Balkan Peninsula (Diplopoda, Polydesmida). Zootaxa 3884 (2): 101-121, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3884.2.1
476B87CB323EF83CB49CBD42154DFD50.text	476B87CB323EF83CB49CBD42154DFD50.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Solentanodesmus insularis Antic & Reip 2014	<div><p>Solentanodesmus insularis Antić &amp; Reip, sp. n.</p><p>Figs. 13–32</p><p>Material examined: Holotype male: Jama na Benkotovu Pit, Grohote, Island of Šolta, Croatia, 43.376°N, 16.272°E, 29.III.2012, leg. T. Rađa (IZB, VHD SI 100-5). Allotype female (IZB, VHD SI 100-6), paratype male I (SMNG, VNR 016546-1), paratype female (SMNG, VNR 016546-2) and paratype juvenile female (IZB, VHD SI 100-7): same data as holotype. Paratype male II: Stara Jametina Pit, Krka National Park, village of Konjevrate, near Drniš, Croatia, 43.789°N, 16.005°E, 15.XII.2012, leg. A. Čukušić (IZB, VHD SI 100-8). Paratype male III (CBSS, DIP 336): same data as paratype male II. Further material: Golubinka pod Kraljevcom Pit, Radošić, Croatia, 43.596°N, 16.342°E, 07.V.2014, leg. T. Rađa, 2 males, 2 females, 1 juvenile female (IZB, VHD SI 100- 12).</p><p>Etymology: The species name insularis refers to the presence of this taxon on an island.</p><p>Description: Body with 19 segments (including telson) in adults (paratype juvenile female with 18 segments).</p><p>Measurements: holotype male 7.1 mm long, width of midbody pro- and metazonites (somite nine) 0.4 and 0.6 mm; allotype female 7.1 mm long, width of midbody pro- and metazonites (somite nine) 0.4 and 0.6 mm; paratype male I 7.2 mm long, width of midbody pro- and metazonites (somite nine) 0.4 and 0.6 mm; paratype female 7.1 mm long, width of midbody pro- and metazonites (somite nine) 0.5 and 0.6 mm, respectively.</p><p>Coloration: Body whitish, slightly translucent, with a visible gut. In some specimens, head and telson yellowish.</p><p>Head: Broader than collum, covered with numerous setae. Occipital suture distinct. Labrum with three labral teeth and eight labral and four supralabral setae. Promentum triangular, without setae. Lingual plates with 5+5 setae arranged in one row. Stipites with 16+16 setae. External palps with 5+5, medial palps with 7+7 (holotype male) or 8+8 (allotype female), internal palps with 3+3 papillae. Antennae in holotype male 1.1 mm long. Antennomeres II and III club-like, antennomeres IV, V, VI and VII subquadrate, especially three latter; antennomere VI: longest and thickest with a very thin base expanded abruptly. Antennomeres IV–VI with few long sensory setae; antennomere VII with one long sensory seta. Antennomere VI with a distodorsal pit with numerous bacilliform sensilla. Antennomere VII with a distodorsal knob with numerous setiform sensilla. Apical part of antennae with four large cones. Length/breadth ratios of antennomeres I–VII (holotype male): I (1.3), II (2.3), III (2.5), IV (1.7), V (1.6), VI (1.5), VII (1.3), respectively.</p><p>Collum: With a semi-circular anterior edge and an almost straight caudal margin. One caudal incision on lateral sides, with four irregular transverse rows of setae; setal formula (holotype male): 8+8+8+12.</p><p>Body segments: Segments II–IV with four irregular transverse rows of medium-sized trichoid setae on minute tubercles. Segments V and VI with five rows of setae; VII–XIII with six rows of setae while XIV–XVIII with six or seven rows, last row on each segment being best-expressed and carrying the largest number of setae. Pleurosternal carinae with well-developed triangular teeth present on each side of segments II–XVII. Apodous (XVIII) segment without pleurosternal carinae. Number of teeth in holotype male: segment II: with five larger and two smaller teeth; III and IV (6/6); segments V–XII (8–9); segments XIII–XV (9–10); segment XVI (11/11); XVII (10/10), respectively. In allotype female: II (3/4), III and IV (5/6), V (9/9), VI (8/7), VII and VIII (9/8), IX (8/7), X (10/8), XI and XII (8/8), XIII (8/10), XIV (8/9), XV and XVI (9/10), and XVII (8/9), respectively. Prozonite slightly punctate. Stricture visible. Paraterga with four dorsolaterally positioned, laterally directed cones. Each cone bearing one seta, except last one on poriferous metazonites, enlarged and bearing an ozopore and three medium-sized setae, also containing a reactivation chamber of the defense mechanism. Pore formula normal: V, VII, IX, X, XII, XIII, XV–XVIII. Epiproct subtriangular in dorsal view, directed caudoventrally, tip with four spinnerets. Paraprocts semi-circular, each with two setae. Hypoproct subtrapeziform, with two long paramedian setae. Sterna unmodified, poorly setose. Epigynal ridge low and simple.</p><p>Walking legs: Long and slender, without modified setae. Femora and tarsi elongated, claws medium-sized.</p><p>Gonopods: Gonopod aperture transverse-oval, taking up slightly less than half of ventral part of metazonite VII. Gonocoxae rounded, with two lateral setae and one mesal seta. Cannula absent. Prefemoral part (pf) massive, held transversely to body axis; covered with numerous setae. Border between prefemoral part and acropodite (a) with a long and slender process (sp). Acropodite long and thin, directed frontally, divisible into two parts. Basal part convex, with or without a short triangular tooth (tt) in the middle, also with a long, thin, finely denticulate and slightly curved process (cp) above tt. Apical part of acropodite represented by a very long, simple, thin, curved, flagelliform process (fp). Both fp crossing or almost crossing medially in situ. Solenomere absent, seminal canal opening at border between cp and fp, surrounded by fine lamellae (l).</p><p>Habitat: The Jama na Benkotovu Pit is 35 m deep. The mean temperature in the cave is 10°C. All four specimens were collected at a depth of about 30 m, 30 cm deep under stones (not on the surface itself).</p><p>The Stara Jametina Pit is 85 m deep and 188 m long, with a mean temperature of 12°C. All specimens were collected in the deepest part of the pit, also under stones. Other notable troglobitic species found in this part of the pit are Zospeum isselianum Pollonera, 1887 (Gastropoda), Chthonius (Microchthonius) rogatus Beier, 1938 (Pseudoscorpiones), Stalagtia hercegovinensis (Nosek, 1905) ( Araneae), Alpioniscus balthasari Frankenberger, 1937 (Isopoda), Troglopedetes pallidus Absolon, 1907 and Verhoeffiella sp. ( Collembola) (Marguš et al. 2012).</p><p>The Golubinka pod Kraljevcom Pit is about 25 m deep and about 30 m long, with a mean temperature of 10°C. The entrance to the cave lies at an altitude of 256 m. The specimens were found in the dark part under stones at the edge of an old pigeon guano dropping.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/476B87CB323EF83CB49CBD42154DFD50	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Antić, Dragan Ž.;Reip, Hans S.;Dražina, Tvrtko;Rađa, Tonći;Makarov, Slobodan E.	Antić, Dragan Ž., Reip, Hans S., Dražina, Tvrtko, Rađa, Tonći, Makarov, Slobodan E. (2014): Three new monotypic genera of Trichopolydesmidae from Croatia, Balkan Peninsula (Diplopoda, Polydesmida). Zootaxa 3884 (2): 101-121, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3884.2.1
476B87CB3230F83DB49CBB3013EEFF2A.text	476B87CB3230F83DB49CBB3013EEFF2A.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Velebitodesmus Antic and Reip 2014	<div><p>Velebitodesmus Antić and Reip, gen. n.</p><p>Type species: Velebitodesmus cavernicolus Antić and Reip, new species, by present designation.</p><p>Etymology: The new genus is named after Mt. Velebit, its type locality, and is masculine in gender.</p><p>Diagnosis: 19 segments (♂, ♀). Differs from other genera of European Trichopolydesmidae by the presence in the gonopod of a caudally curved acropodite supplied with a massive lamella, coupled with a U-shaped excavation between the lamella and a well-developed, basal, lanceolate process; a strongly chitinized lobe and a triangular process with two additional claw-shaped apophyses are present in the apical part of the acropodite.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/476B87CB3230F83DB49CBB3013EEFF2A	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Antić, Dragan Ž.;Reip, Hans S.;Dražina, Tvrtko;Rađa, Tonći;Makarov, Slobodan E.	Antić, Dragan Ž., Reip, Hans S., Dražina, Tvrtko, Rađa, Tonći, Makarov, Slobodan E. (2014): Three new monotypic genera of Trichopolydesmidae from Croatia, Balkan Peninsula (Diplopoda, Polydesmida). Zootaxa 3884 (2): 101-121, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3884.2.1
476B87CB3235F824B49CBCBA140FFE70.text	476B87CB3235F824B49CBCBA140FFE70.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Velebitodesmus cavernicolus Antic and Reip 2014	<div><p>Velebitodesmus cavernicolus Antić and Reip sp. n.</p><p>Figs. 33–42</p><p>Material examined: Holotype male: Munižaba Pit, Crnopac, Gračac, Mt. Velebit, Croatia, 44.276°N, 15.713°E, 19.II.2011, leg. A. Kirin (IZB, VHD VC 100-9). Allotype female: Jamski sistem Kita Gaćešina-Draženova Puhaljka Pit System, Crnopac, Gračac, Mt. Velebit, Croatia, 15.X.2011, leg. B. Jalžić (IZB, VHD VC 100-10). Paratype male I: same data as allotype (SMNG, VNR 016547-1). Paratype male II: same data as allotype (SMNG, VNR 016547-2). Paratype male III: Burinka Pit, Crnopac, Duman, Dragićevića stan, Obrovac, Mt. Velebit, Croatia, 28.IX.2010, leg. M. Malenica (IZB, VHD VC 100-11).</p><p>Etymology: To emphasize the habitat.</p><p>Description: Body with 19 segments (including telson) in adults.</p><p>Measurements: holotype male 9.2 mm long, width of midbody pro- and metazonites (segment nine) 0.6 mm and 0.7 mm; allotype female 10.4 mm long, width of midbody pro- and metazonites (segment nine) 0.7 mm and 0.9 mm; paratype male I 9.2 mm long, width of midbody pro- and metazonites (segment nine) 0.6 mm and 0.7 mm; paratype male II 10.3 mm long, width of midbody pro- and metazonites (segment nine) 0.7 mm and 0.9 mm; paratype male III 9.2 mm long, width of midbody pro- and metazonites (segment nine) 0.6 mm and 0.7 mm, respectively.</p><p>Coloration: Body whitish, translucent, with a visible gut. Labrum, gnathochilarium, cardo and stipe yellowish to pale brownish.</p><p>Head: Broader than collum, covered with fine short and some longer setae. Occipital suture distinct. Labrum well-expressed, with one medial tooth and six labral setae. Gnathochilarium (in paratype male I) densely setose. Setae robust. Promentum subtriangular. Stipites with more than 25 setae each. Lingual plates with 9+8 setae and one long blunt apical seta each. External palps with 12+14, medial palps with 16+16, internal palps with 3+3 papillae. Hypopharynx with long and thin fringes, but significantly less strongly developed than in Balkanodesmus gen. n. Antennae in males 1.4–1.6 mm long, in holotype male 1.4 mm long; in allotype female 1.5 mm long. Antennomeres II–VI club-like, elongated; antennomere VII cylindrical and shorter. Antennomere VI with a distodorsal pit with numerous bacilliform sensilla. Antennomere VII with a distodorsal pad with few setiform setae. Apex of antennae with four large cones. Length/width ratios of antennomeres in males (median value): I (1.1), II (2.7), III (3.1), IV (2.4), V (1.7), VI (1.9), VII (1.2); in allotype female: I (1.2), II (2.9), III (2.7), IV (2.2), V (2.6), VI (2.2), VII (1.3), respectively.</p><p>Collum: Transversely subovoid; one caudal incision on lateral sides, with three rows of setae on small tubercles, setal formula: 8+8+8.</p><p>Body segments: Segments II–IV with three rows of short trichoid setae on small tubercles while segments V–XVIII with four irregular transverse rows of short setae. Pleurosternal carinae with well-developed triangular teeth present on each side of segments II–XVII. Apodous (XVIII) segment without pleurosternal carinae. Number of teeth in paratype male I: segments II–V (4–7), VI (8/8), VII–XVII (5–10), respectively. Prozonite slightly punctate. Stricture distinct. Paraterga with three dorsolaterally positioned, laterally directed cones. Each cone bearing one seta, except last one on poriferous metazonites, enlarged and bearing an ozopore and four short setae. These enlarged cones also contain reactivation chambers of the defence mechanism. Pore formula normal: V, VII, IX, X, XII, XIII, XV–XVIII. Epiproct subtriangular in dorsal view, truncate at tip, protruding beyond paraprocts, dorsally with several setae; tip of epiproct with four spinnerets. Paraprocts semi-circular, granulated, each with two setae. Hypoproct more strongly rounded, with two long apical setae. Sterna unmodified. Epigynal ridge low.</p><p>Walking legs: Long and slender, without modified setae. Femora and tarsi elongated, claws medium-sized.</p><p>Gonopods: Gonopod aperture transverse-oval, taking up circa 2/3 of ventral part of metazonite VII. Gonocoxae with one mesal process (mp) and one medial, lamellar, spoon-shaped, protruding part (sp), possibly with a role in cannula protection. A U-shaped excavation between mp and sp. Anterior part of gonocoxae with two short setae. Prefemoral part (pf) subcylindrical, held transversely to body axis; with few setae posteriorly, last 1/3 with several setae anteriorly. Acropodite (a) erect, rising from prefemoral part and abruptly curved caudolaterad. A long lanceolate process (lp) branching off a well-developed lamella (l) with U-shaped excavation lying at base of acropodite. Solenomere absent; seminal canal opening at base of l. Apical part of acropodite with a strongly chitinized lobe (cl) and a triangular pointed process (tp) with two additional claw-like apophyses (cp).</p><p>Habitat: All five specimens of Velebitodesmus cavernicolus sp. n. were collected in three deep and large underground systems of the Crnopac Massif (Mt. Velebit): the Kita Gaćešina-Draženova Puhaljka Pit system (depth 737 m, total length 27,383 m), Munižaba (depth 510 m, total length 9,715 m) and Burinka (depth 290 m, length about 400 m). All these caves are still being investigated speleologically (www.speleologija.hr). Casale et al. (2012) described two new, highly specialized, subterranean beetles, Velebitaphaenops giganteus Casale &amp; Jalžić, 2012 and Velebitodromus ozrenlukici Lohaj, Mlejnek &amp; Jalžić, 2012 from the Crnopac Massif. In addition to these species, the following notable, mostly endemic troglobitic fauna are recorded from this area: Zospeum sp. ( Gastropoda), Brachydesmus likanus Strasser, 1962 and Haasia stenopodium (Strasser, 1966) (both Diplopoda), Neobisium (Pennobisium) stribogi Ćurčić, 1988 (Pseudoscorpiones), Troglohyphantes roberti roberti DeelemanReinhold, 1978 ( Araneae), Astagobius angustatus (Schmidt, 1852), Parapropus sericeus augustae Müller, 1941, Redensekia likana Karaman, 1953 and Spelaeodromus pluto (Reitter, 1881) (all Coleoptera, Cholevidae). The discovery of this new troglobitic diplopod genus and species supports a suggested connection between these caves into one, large underground system (Casale et al. 2012).</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/476B87CB3235F824B49CBCBA140FFE70	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Antić, Dragan Ž.;Reip, Hans S.;Dražina, Tvrtko;Rađa, Tonći;Makarov, Slobodan E.	Antić, Dragan Ž., Reip, Hans S., Dražina, Tvrtko, Rađa, Tonći, Makarov, Slobodan E. (2014): Three new monotypic genera of Trichopolydesmidae from Croatia, Balkan Peninsula (Diplopoda, Polydesmida). Zootaxa 3884 (2): 101-121, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3884.2.1
