S. Mahunka szerk.: Folia Entomologica Hungarica 49. (Budapest, 1988)

Typhlopygmaeosoma hazeltonae Turk, 1972 This species, the only representative of Typhlopygmaeosoma known from the holotype captured in a cave near Simla, North India (s. TURK 1972), has just been proven by SHEAR (1986) to belong in fact to the Polydesmoidea and provisionally placed within Opisotretidae. I have also been privileged to see the holotype and can add that: (1) Typhlopygmaeosoma is almost certainly not a member of Opisotretidae, as the only available gonopod preparation is. Fig. 1) seems to be complete (both cannulae quite visible, beginning of the seminal groove Fig. 1. Typhlopygmaeosoma hazeltonae Turk, 1972: S holotype. gonopods (caudal view) Scale = 0. 1 mm traceable on the left gonopod. both gonopods hold in situ more or less parallel to the main axis and lack a tortiled parabasal, or "prefemoral" portion characteristic of Opisotretidae — s. GOLOVATCH 1987a, c); and (2) Typhlopygmaeosoma seems rather to be a Polydesmidae, as the (? fully) elucidated course of the seminal groove shows on the right gonopod. TURK'S (1972) statement about the presence of a distinct (para)basal outgrowth of the gonopod is not substantiated by a restudy of the type slide (see also SHEAR 1986), which seems to represent the entire gonopod pair with completely smashed gonocoxae and more or less intact telopodites. The right telopodite seems to display the orifice of the seminal groove lying opposite the characteristic tooth d (Fig. 1). Naturally, to be able to solve the problem of the identity of Typhlopygmaeosoma within Polydesmoidea definitely, one needs to consider additional material. However, even the information available now is sufficient for a safe recognition of the species in question, but not exactly of its genus.