Acanthophorella Antić & Makarov, 2016

Key to the species of the genus Acanthophorella Antić & Makarov, 2016 View in CoL

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 View in CoL 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 View in CoL

5. Coxal process of leg pair 7 subquadrangular; body macrochaete very long and trichoid................... A. eto View in CoL sp. nov.

– Coxal process of leg pair 7 subtriangular; body macrochaete short and bacilliform........ A. devi Antić View in CoL 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 View in CoL 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 View in CoL 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 View in CoL sp. nov.

8. Angiocoxites of posterior gonopods wide, ear-shaped............................. A. aurita Antić View in CoL 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 View in CoL

– Lateral lamellae of anterior gonopods distinctly lower than medial parts. Coxal processes of posterior gonopods small, columnar................................................................ A. irystoni Antić & Makarov, 2016 View in CoL