Allotyphlus Coiffait, 1955

Allotyphlus Coiffait, 1955 View in CoL

Allotyphlus Coiffait, 1955: 67 View in CoL .

Type species: Leptotyphlus aspericeps Scheerpeltz, 1931 . Original designation.

Allotyphlus Coiffait View in CoL : Coiffait, 1957: 61 (in key); Coiffait, 1959: 310 (redescription, key to species); Pace, 1977b: 197 (key to species of Apennine Mountains); Pace, 1996: 124 (redescriptions, key to Italian species); Struyve, 2022: 10 View Cited Treatment (in key).

Syn. Tropidotyphlus Scheerpeltz, 1956: 459 View in CoL . Type species: Leptotyphlus aspericeps Scheerpeltz, 1931 . Original designation. Synonymy in Coiffait (1959: 310).

sbg. Moreotyphlus Coiffait, 1959: 312. Type species: Allotyphlus spartensis Coiffait, 1959 . Original designation.

Diagnosis. Gular sutures confluent in anterior part of head length, from confluent point continuing as single, straight, short suture or again separated to two divergent sutures; antennae with 11 antennomeres, antennomeres 5 larger than 4 and 6, antennal club with 3 antennomeres; labrum dentate with anterior margin rectilinear; tarsal formula 3-3-3; aedeagus asymmetric, parameres of different shape, with distal setae.

Remarks. Large genus with 25 valid species names assigned in two subgenera. Five species are known from Italy (Trentino-Alto Adige, Veneto, Puglia), three species from Turkey, all from the province Burdur and 17 species from Greece, 10 from mainland (Epirus, Peloponnese, Teygetos, Eastern Macedonia and Thrace) and 7 from islands (Crete, Kefaloniá, Kérkira, Lefkáda).