Megatyphlus Coiffait, 1955

Megatyphlus Coiffait, 1955 View in CoL

Megatyphlus Coiffait, 1955: 68 View in CoL .

Type species: Leptotyphlus curtii Breit, 1911 View in CoL . Original designation.

syn. Glyptotyphlus Scheerpeltz, 1956: 462 View in CoL . Type species: Leptotyphlus carniolicus Bernhauer, 1908 View in CoL . Original designation. Validation of Glyptotyphlus Scheerpeltz 1940 View in CoL by inclusion of species and designation of type species.

Glyptotyphlus Scheerpeltz, 1940: 29 View in CoL nomen nudum, no species designation.

Glyptotyphlus Scheerpeltz View in CoL , in litt.: Hölzel, 1944: 67 nomen nudum, no description.

Megatyphlus Coiffait View in CoL : Coiffait, 1957: 71 (in key); Coiffait, 1959: 327 (redescription); Coiffait, 1972: 622 (redescription, key to species); Pace, 1979 (revision, key to species); Pace, 1996: 309 (redescription, key to species of Italy).

Diagnosis. Gular sutures confluent, confluent point in about midlength of head capsule, from here prolonged ahead as one straight suture; ligula reduced, with two small lateral lobes; labrum with anterior margin rectilinear or deeply concave, bearing minuscule teeth; antennae with 11 antennomeres, antennomere 5 about as large as 6, antennal club composed of three antennomeres; tarsal formula 2-2-2.

Remarks. Megatyphlus has 3 species and its members with the body length 1.5–1.9 mm are the largest leptotyphlines.