Table 1.

Characters matrix for the brachyiulinine genera. Ac – Acropoditius; An – Anaulaciulus; Ba – Balkanophoenix; Br – Brachyiulus; Gr – Grusiniulus; Me – Megaphyllum; Rh – Rhamphidoiulus; Tit – Titanophyllum; Mam – Mammamia

Character	Ac	An	Ba	Br	Gr	Me	Rh	Tit	Mam
Eyes	+	+	+	+	+	+	+	-	-
Frontal setae		+		+	+	+	+/-	+	-?
Subanal hook	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	+	-
Male mandibles with protruding lobe	+	-	-	+(all?)	+	+(all?)	+	-	-
Length of anterior gonopods compared to posterior gonopods	~as long	~half as long	~as long	~half as long	~half as long	~as long	~as long	¾ as long	longer
Anterior gonopods: flagelliferous lobe with very long, almost filamentous appendage	-	-	-	-	-	-	+	-	-
Anterior gonopods with a distal very long, almost filamentous appendage	+	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Posterior gonopods simple, unipartite (S) vs. complex, bearing one or more processes distally (C)	S	C	C	C	C	C	S	S	C