Megaphyllum taygetanum ( Attems, 1903 )

Megaphyllum taygetanum ( Attems, 1903) View in CoL

Brachyiulus taygetanus Attems, 1903: 136 View in CoL –137, Figs 59–61.

Chromatoiulus taygetanus: Attems 1927: 224 View in CoL ; Strasser 1967: 286 –287, Figs 19–21 View FIGURES 19 – 21 ; 1974: 272 and 290; 1976: 613–614; Ceuca 1992: 425.

Chromatoiulus (Dittozus) taygetanus: Attems 1940: 307 View in CoL and 312, Figs 28–29.

Megaphyllum taygetanum: Enghoff & Kime 2009 View in CoL .

Material examined. HNHM: Greece: 233, Paradisa, 31.03.1999, leg. LD; 13, 2ƤƤ, 2009/1, Arkadia county, Garea, open wood E of the village, 680m, N37°26.576’ E22°27.467’, 0 2.04.2009, leg. LD, JK & DM; 13, 2009/ 43, Arkadia county, Tetrazi Mts., Ag. Theodora, rocky maple forest, 490m, N37°21.269’ E21°58.782’, 0 5.04.2009, leg. LD, JK & DM.

Distribution in the Balkans. Greece: Ladha, Taygetos ( type locality) ( Attems 1903), Mistras, 500m, 7km E of Sparta, Taygetos Mts. ( Strasser 1967).

World distribution. Endemic to the Taygetos Mts., Peloponnese, Greece.

Remarks. The new material supports Strasser’s (1967) observation on the lateral caudal process of the opisthomere ( lcp on Figs 19–21 View FIGURES 19 – 21 ), which again proved to be variable: on the specimens from Paradisa it is a simple process ( sensu Attems (Strasser 1967)) ( Fig. 19 View FIGURES 19 – 21 ), on those from the other two localities it is more or less serrated ( sensu Strasser (1967)) ( Figs 20–21 View FIGURES 19 – 21 ). It is the second species of the subgenus Dittozus Attems, 1940 , but its validity was seriously questioned by Strasser (1967).