Acanthophorella Antic & Makarov 2016

Key to the species of the genus Acanthophorella Antić & Makarov, 2016 Modified and refined after Antić & Makarov (2016) and Antić et al. (2023) 1. Unpigmented, whitish species. Presumed troglobionts........................................................ 2 – Pigmented, epigean species............................................................................. 8 2. Ommatidia pale brownish or transparent in adults, sometimes barely visible....................................... 3 – Ommatidia black in adults.............................................................................. 6 3. Coxal procesess of leg pair 7 with lateral rounded lobes and with smaller mesal lobes or teeth......................... 4 – Coxal procesess of leg pair 7 subquadrangular or subtriangular, without mesal lobes or teeth.......................... 5 4. Coxal procesess of leg pair 7 with small, rounded, mesal lobes; coxal processes of leg pair 10 in form of strongly developed, rounded lobes; medial parts of anterior gonopod angiocoxites distally rounded.......................... A. didi sp. nov. – Coxal procesess of leg pair 7 with acuminate, mesal teeth; coxal processes of leg pair 10 subtriangular; medial parts of anterior gonopod angiocoxites distally subquadrangular................................ A. barjadzei Antić & Makarov, 2016 5. Coxal process of leg pair 7 subquadrangular; body macrochaete very long and trichoid................... A. eto sp. nov. – Coxal process of leg pair 7 subtriangular; body macrochaete short and bacilliform........ A. devi Antić in Antić et al., 2023 6. Medial parts of anterior gonopod angiocoxites with well-developed, lateral, triangular projections and with distal pairs of processes strongly curved proximoposteriad; coxal processes of leg pair 10 spinelike................ A. spinicoxa sp. nov. – Medial parts of anterior gonopod angiocoxites without lateral projections and without distal pair of processes; coxal processes of leg pair 10 not spinelike.............................................................................. 7 7. Coxal processes of leg pair 7 with mesal lobes; leg pair 10 with blunt coxal processes; angiocoxites of posterior gonopods very short, positioned posterolaterally, considerably shorter than colpocoxites............. A. valerii Antić in Antić et al., 2023 – Coxal processes of leg pair 7 axelike, without mesal lobes; leg pair 10 with short subtriangular processes; angiocoxites of posterior gonopods long, only slightly shorten than colpocoxites............................... A. gaumarjos sp. nov. 8. Angiocoxites of posterior gonopods wide, ear-shaped............................. A. aurita Antić in Antić et al., 2023 – Angiocoxites of posterior gonopods neither wide nor ear-shaped................................................ 9 9. Lateral lamellae of angiocoxites of anterior gonopods as high as medial parts of angiocoxites. Angiocoxites of posterior gonopods well developed, hook-shaped, curved anteriad......................... A. chegemi Antić & Makarov, 2016 – Lateral lamellae of anterior gonopods distinctly lower than medial parts. Coxal processes of posterior gonopods small, columnar................................................................ A. irystoni Antić & Makarov, 2016