The centipede genus Eupolybothrus Verhoeff, 1907 (Chilopoda: Lithobiomorpha: Lithobiidae) in North Africa, a cybertaxonomic revision, with an interactive key to all species in the genus and the first use of DNA barcoding for the group

Pavel Stoev; Nesrine Akkari; Mario Zapparoli; David Porco; Henrik Enghoff; Gregory D. Edgecombe; Teodor Georgiev; Lyubomir Penev

doi:10.3897/zookeys.50.504

The centipede genus Eupolybothrus Verhoeff, 1907 (Chilopoda: Lithobiomorpha: Lithobiidae) in North Africa, a cybertaxonomic revision, with an interactive key to all species in the genus and the first use of DNA barcoding for the group

Pavel Stoev, Nesrine Akkari, Mario Zapparoli, David Porco, Henrik Enghoff, Gregory D. Edgecombe, Teodor Georgiev, Lyubomir Penev

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Abstract

The centipede genus Eupolybothrus Verhoeff, 1907 in North Africa is revised. A new cavernicolous species, E. kahfi Stoev & Akkari, sp. n., is described from a cave in Jebel Zaghouan, northeast Tunisia. Morphologically, it is most closely related to E. nudicornis (Gervais, 1837) from North Africa and Southwest Europe but can be readily distinguished by the long antennae and leg-pair 15, a conical dorso-median protuberance emerging from the posterior part of prefemur 15, and the shape of the male fi rst genital sternite. Molecular sequence data from the cytochrome c oxidase I gene (mtDNA-5' COI-barcoding fragment) exhibit 19.19% divergence between E. kahfi and E. nudicornis, an interspecifi c value comparable to those observed among four other species of Eupolybothrus which, combined with a low intraspecifi c divergence (0.3-1.14%), supports the morphological diagnosis of E. kahfi as a separate species. This is the fi rst troglomorphic myriapod to be found in Tunisia, and the second troglomorph lithobiomorph centipede known from North Africa. E. nudicornis is redescribed based on abundant material from Tunisia and its post-embryonic development, distribution and habitat preferences recorded. E. cloudsley-thompsoni Turk, 1955, a nominal species based on Tunisian type material, is placed in synonymy with E. nudicornis. To comply with the latest technological developments in publishing of biological information, the paper implements new approaches in cybertaxonomy, such as fi ne granularity XML tagging validated against the NLM DTD TaxPub for PubMedCentral and dissemination in XML to various aggregators (GBIF, EOL, Wikipedia), vizualisation of all taxa mentioned in the text via the dynamically created Pensoft Taxon Profi le (PTP) page, data publishing, georeferencing of all lo calities via Google Earth, and ZooBank, GenBank and MorphBank registration of datasets. An interactive key to all valid species of Eupolybothrus is made with DELTA software.

Original language	English
Journal	ZooKeys
Volume	50
Pages (from-to)	29-77
Number of pages	49
ISSN	1313-2989
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.50.504
Publication status	Published - 2010

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Stoev, P., Akkari, N., Zapparoli, M., Porco, D., Enghoff, H., Edgecombe, G. D., Georgiev, T., & Penev, L. (2010). The centipede genus Eupolybothrus Verhoeff, 1907 (Chilopoda: Lithobiomorpha: Lithobiidae) in North Africa, a cybertaxonomic revision, with an interactive key to all species in the genus and the first use of DNA barcoding for the group. ZooKeys, 50, 29-77. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.50.504

The centipede genus Eupolybothrus Verhoeff, 1907 (Chilopoda: Lithobiomorpha: Lithobiidae) in North Africa, a cybertaxonomic revision, with an interactive key to all species in the genus and the first use of DNA barcoding for the group. / Stoev, Pavel; Akkari, Nesrine; Zapparoli, Mario et al.

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Stoev, P, Akkari, N, Zapparoli, M, Porco, D, Enghoff, H, Edgecombe, GD, Georgiev, T & Penev, L 2010, 'The centipede genus Eupolybothrus Verhoeff, 1907 (Chilopoda: Lithobiomorpha: Lithobiidae) in North Africa, a cybertaxonomic revision, with an interactive key to all species in the genus and the first use of DNA barcoding for the group', ZooKeys, vol. 50, pp. 29-77. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.50.504

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