Cyphocallipus Verhoeff, 1909

Genus Cyphocallipus Verhoeff, 1909 View in CoL

Diagnosis.

Body with 53–59 PTs. Forehead of male concave; a pair of small knobs present on epicranium of both known species of Cyphocallipus ; pleurotergites: with longitudinal crests, which are spaced apart in their posterior part; metazona not much elevated compared to prozona (in Lusitanipus and Dorycallipus posterior part are elevated); Collum: with longitudinal furrows and indistinct setae in the posterior half and at the side flaps; Coxal sacs: from 3 rd to 22 nd pair of legs. Gonopods: with a large sternal lamella and three coxosternal processes, two of them much longer than the 3 rd between them, the foremost with an excavation for the telopodite; telopodite long and thin pseudoflagellum following its curvature. Female (unknown in C. africanus ): posterior lateral edge of second metazonum produced caudal as a large subtriangular lobe over lower side of third. Second leg-pair greatly reduced ( Verhoeff 1909; Hoffman 2009; Spelda 2015).

Comment.

In his review of the members of the order Callipodida from the Iberian Peninsula, Spelda (2015) provided a comprehensive bibliographic catalogue of the records of the genus Cyphocallipus and C. excavatus , along with photographs of key taxonomic characteristics of the species. Therefore, we do not include a bibliographic review here.