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Abstract
Cylindroiulus distinctus (Lucas, Citation1846) as redescribed by Attems (Citation1927) is found to be a different species to that originally described. The latter is here described as C. attemsi sp. n. The former subspecies, C. distinctus gauthieri Brölemann, Citation1931, is here elevated to full species status. Five further species are described as new (C. djebelensis, C. jijelensis, C. ouridae, C. parvoalgerinus and C. maurus). Full descriptions are also provided for C. distinctus, C. gauthieri and C. algerinus Brölemann, Citation1897. All are considered to belong to the C. distinctus group of species which is seen as equivalent to the subgenus Phalloiulus of Brölemann (Citation1897). It was not possible to examine C. rifanus Schubart, Citation1960 but from the published description this species falls within the group as considered here and is a distinct species. Notes on the two other endemic congeners from the region, C. lohmanderi (Schubart, Citation1932) and C. tunetanus Attems, Citation1908, are also given.
Acknowledgements
This work was made possible through the support of the European Community—Access to Research Infrastructure action of the Improving Human Potential Programme (in the form of a COBICE grant to work in Copenhagen). I am very grateful to Henrik Enghoff for support, encouragement and help with German translations. I would also like to thank the Natural History Museum for allowing me to work there as a Scientific Associate and Jan Beccaloni for her help with the collection and references. Ourida Abrous‐Kherbouche provided some of the specimens, kindly drew the maps and made some valuable comments on the manuscript for which I am very grateful. Paul Read helped prepare the SEM figures for publication. The following people kindly lent specimens from their collections: E. Gavetti of the Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali, Turin, Italy; Jürgen Gruber of the Naturhistorishes Museum Wien; Jean‐Paul Mauriès of the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris; Jason Dunlop of the Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin; Paul Hillyard and Jan Beccaloni of the Natural History Museum, London.