Epibolus Cook 1897

Genus Epibolus Cook, 1897 Type species: Spirobolus pulchripes Gerstäcker, 1873 Included species. E. pulchripes (Gerstäcker, 1873); E. mossambicensis (Lawrence, 1967) Diagnosis. A genus of East African Pachybolini characterized by - no coxal lobes on male legs 6 and 7 - three (two to five) pairs of ventral macrosetae on male legs from pair 5 onward (Fig. 6). - a moveable lateral appendix on the posterior gonopods - striated membranous lamellae at tip of posterior gonopod - no mesal process, no free solenomerite, no distal complex of parallel ridges on posterior gonopod - no long meso-distal process on anterior gonopod coxite - no overlapping lobes on anterior gonopod telopodites - apical margin of winglike expansions of second female coxae regularly rounded (Fig. 12) - an apical appendix on oral vulval valve Enghoff (1977) recognised three species of this genus: the widespread E. pulchripes (Kenya and Tanzania), E. bravensis from Somalia and E. mossambicensis from Mozambique. The morphological characters distinguishing the two “geographical satellite” species from E. pulchripes were subtle, and in the case of E. bravensis drawn exclusively from the original description (Silvestri, 1897) because these characters could not be seen on the male holotype. See further under E. pulchripes.Published as part of Enghoff, Henrik, 2011, East African giant millipedes of the tribe Pachybolini (Diplopoda, Spirobolida, Pachybolidae), pp. 1-41 in Zootaxa 2753 on pages 32-33, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.27668