Allotyphlus (Allotyphlus) pavesii Violi 2026, sp. nov.

Allotyphlus (Allotyphlus) pavesii Violi sp. nov. Figs 9–14 Type material. Holotype. Greece • ♂; Kérkyra, 2 km W Kassiopi, Apraos Bay; 39°47'40"N, 19°53'41"E; 10 m a. s. l.; 4–8 Dec 1999; M. Pavesi leg.; included in DMHF; MSNM. Paratypes: Greece • 2 ♂ 4 ♀; same collecting data as holotype; cMV • 8 ♂ 8 ♀; same collecting locality and legit.; 29 Mar 1998; 1 ♂ cLF, 7 ♂ 8 ♀ cMP • 5 ♂ 2 ♀; same collecting locality and legit.; 22 Feb 1996; cMV. Glued on labels or included in DMHF. Diagnosis. Maxillary palpi with palpomere 2 dilated, about twice as wide as 3; palpomere 4 smaller than 3; labrum bidentate; antennae with 11 antennomeres. Tarsal formula 3-3 - 3. Visible tergites 1–5 (III – VII) and visible sternite 2–4 (IV – VI) with shallow basal impression; visible sternite 5 (VII) with deep transversal furrow, visible sternite 6 (VIII) of male symmetric, with the posterior margin bilobate; male sternite 7 (IX) not strongly chitinised; aedeagus well-differentiated from its congeners, strongly chitinised, with median lobe prolonged by long curved ventral lamina ending in shape of hook, with two ventral setae; parameres short, with four apical setae. Description. Male. Body (Fig. 9) about 1.75 mm long, completely depigmented. Head capsule 1.3 times longer than wide, as wide as pronotum; head capsule separated from neck region by occipital constriction. Dorsal surface covered with robust, scale-like microreticulation, microstriolated posterior to constriction, both in ventral and dorsal side; gular sutures confluent anteriorly at about mid-length of head capsule, after meeting point again separated to two divergent sutures that draw pentagonal space with the mentum; maxillary palpi with palpomere 2 dilated, about twice as wide as 3; palpomere 4 smaller than 3. Labium with ligula divided into four lobes, the inner ones smaller and acuminate, the outer ones larger and rounded. Labrum (Fig. 14) monodentate, with 12 setae. Antennae with 11 antennomeres; scape longer than terminal antennomere, about 1.8 times as long as wide; pedicel as long as wide, as wide as scape, twice as long as antennomere 3; antennomeres 3–9 transverse; 3, 4 and 6 subequal in length; antennomere 5 larger than 4 and 6; 5 and 7 subequal in length; 7, 8, 9 and 10 with increasing width; terminal antennomere subtriangular, pointed at the apex, 1.1 times as long as wide. Prothorax. Pronotum about 1.08 times as long as wide, widest in anterior third, after that convergent posteriorly; anterior margin straight, the posterior slightly convex; anterior and posterior angles widely rounded; dorsal surface with slight microreticulation on disc; procoxal cavities rounded, with middle spiniform projection reaching the posterior margin of prosternum. Proepisternum and prosternum near procoxal cavities microreticulated. Pterothorax. Elytra about 1.05 times as wide as long, smooth, with posterior margin straight. Scutellum, meso- and metaventrites microreticulated. Abdomen. Visible tergites 1–5 (III – VII) and visible sternites 2–4 (IV – VI) with shallow basal impression, visible sternite 5 (VII) with deep transverse sulcus. Visible sternites and tergites 1–4 (III – VI) microreticulated in the anterior half, the sternite 5 (VII) microreticulated only in the anterior part up to the sulcus. Visible sternite 5 (VII) (Fig. 12, top) with posteromedian longitudinal depression, with shagreened surface. Visible tergite 6 (VIII) expanded in posterior half and with straight posterior margin. Visible sternite 6 (VIII) (Fig. 12, bottom) with shallow smooth depression, posterior margin symmetric, divided into two rounded lobes. Visible tergite 6 (VIII) (Fig. 13) with lateral margins not chitinised, right margin with a basal rounded lobe. Sternite 7 (IX) (Fig. 13) asymmetric, suboval, with a short distal part curved to the right side, posterior margin rounded, exposed part microreticulated with two longer setae on each side and 7–8 shorter setae near posterior margin. Tergite 8 (X) with a bidentate margin. Legs short, all tibiae distally dilated, femora dilated in the middle, trochanters unarmed (only metatrochanters with a small tubercle), tarsal formula 3-3 - 3. Aedeagus (Fig. 10) about 0.28 mm long, recumbent on left side in the abdomen, strongly chitinised, with a small basal bulb, median lobe prolonged by long curved ventral lamina ending in shape of hook, with two ventral setae; dorsal part of capsule strongly projected towards apex of ventral lamina, forming deep indentation on each side; parameres short, with four distal setae each, left one shorter and entirely curved, right one more straight, with four short apical setae. Female. Similar to male. Margin of visible sternite 5 (VII) (Fig. 11) with sharp triangular shape. Genital segment as in Fig. 11. Etymology. Patronymic, dedicated to its collector, Maurizio Pavesi, former curator of the entomological collections of the MSNM. Distribution. Greece (Kérkyra). Ecology. Syntopic with Entomoculia (s. str.) cassiopaea sp. nov. and only known from the type locality (see note on the ecology of the previous species). Discussion. This new species clearly belongs to the homogeneous group composed of the five abovementioned species described from Kérkyra, all of which share similar structure of the aedeagus: A. achileus from Agios Deka and Agios Theodori (near Achilleio), A. corcyranus from Gouvia and Dassia (near the City of Kérkyra), A. corcyricus from Ropa Valley and A. dexter and A. sinester from Palaiokastritsa. Allotyphlus pavesii n. sp. is, therefore, the only species known to date from the northern part of the island, north of Mount Pantokrator. It can be distinguished from the other species by the sexual characters of both sexes, especially by the shorter ventral lamina of the aedeagus and its distinctive hook-shaped apex.