Genus Maurieseuma gen. nov.

Type species: Hylebainosoma nontronense Mauriès & Kime, 1999, by monotypy.

Diagnosis. Differs from the genera Haasea, Hylebainosoma and Xylophageuma, by leg-pair 3 in females which is reduced to only one podomere in the new genus, while in the three confamiliar genera leg-pairs 3 in females are normally developed. In addition, Maurieseuma gen. nov. differs from the three above mentioned genera in certain details of the anterior and posterior gonopods. For example, the median sternal process is half as long as the angiocoxites in the new genus, while in Hylebainosoma the same structure is very long; coxal processes of the posterior gonopods are strongly developed, unipartite, and wide in Maurieseuma gen. nov., while in Haasea the same structures are two or three branched, or are unipartite but very slender in the distal part in Xylophageuma. The structure of the leg-pair 3 in females is unknown in the genus Romanosoma, but Maurieseuma gen. nov. differs from Romanosoma in the structure and height of the coxal process of the posterior gonopods (lower than the telopodite with distal part denticulate and curved posteriad in Maurieseuma gen. nov. vs coxal process distinctly surpassing telopodite, distally tends to bifurcation in Romanosoma). For more comparison details see under discussion.

Name. The new genus is named after our French colleague Jean-Paul Mauriès (1934–2022). During his long scientific career spanning more than six decades, Jean-Paul left an indelible mark in Myriapodology, and especially in Chordeumatidology. He was one of the best in our era. The name is a neuter noun.

Description and distribution. See below.