Gynotyphlus Coiffait, 1955

Gynotyphlus Coiffait, 1955 View in CoL

Gynotyphlus Coiffait, 1955: 72 View in CoL .

Type species: Leptotyphlus perpusillus Dodero, 1900 View in CoL . Original designation.

Oligotyphlus Scheerpeltz, 1940: 28 View in CoL nomen nudum, no species designation.

syn. Oligotyphlus Scheerpeltz, 1956: 460 View in CoL . Type species: Leptotyphlus perpusillus Dodero, 1900 View in CoL . Validation of Oligotyphlus Scheerpeltz 1940 View in CoL by inclusion of species and designation. Synonymy in Coiffait, 1959: 390.

syn. Austriacotyphlus Scheerpeltz, 1959: 4 . Type species: Austriacotyphlus piffli Scheerpeltz, 1959 . Original designation. Synonymy in Pace, 1983b: 43.

Gynotyphlus Coiffait View in CoL : Coiffait, 1957: 61 (in key); Coiffait, 1959: 390 (redescription, key to subspecies of G. perpusillus View in CoL ); Coiffait, 1964: 696 (distribution); Coiffait, 1972: 617 (redescription, key to subspecies of G. perpusillus View in CoL ); Coiffait, 1984: 117 (distribution); Pace, 1996: 302 (redescription, key to subspecies of G. perpusillus View in CoL of Italy).

Austriacotyphlus Scheerpeltz View in CoL : Coiffait, 1972: 616 (redescription).

Diagnosis. Gular sutures confluent in anterior third of length of head capsule, from confluent point not prolonged ahead; labrum dentate; antennae short, with 11 antennomeres, antennomeres 5–10 strongly transverse, 5 wider than 4 and about as wide as 6, antennal club composed from 5 antennomeres, terminal antennomeres lacking sensorial appendages (phaneres); all tarsi with 3 tarsomeres. Genital armature of female indistinct.

Remarks. The genus has three species, all are present in the Balkan Peninsula. It is believed that the natural area of the distribution is southern France, Italy, the Balkans and Turkey and that the parthenogenetic species Gynotyphlus perpusillus was introduced in many countries in Europe.