Revision systematique des Leptodirinae souterrains des Monts Apuseni. VIII. Aprecu synthetique sur le genre Pholeuon

“SYSTEMATIC REVISION OF SUBTERRANEAN LEPTODIRINAE FROMTHE APUSENI MOUNTAINS. VIII. SYNTHETIC VIEW UPON THE GENUSPHOLEUON” The present paper aims to achieve a global study of all taxa of the genus Pholeuon. The work was preceded by six extensive investigations on the Pholeuon populations from the main geographic areas of the Apuseni Mountains. Biometric data obtained from 9745 specimens are successively analyzed by numerical analysis, hierarchical cluster analysis (HCA) and principal component analysis (PCA) considering theP durea Craiului Mountains regions first, seconded by the Bihor Mountains and finally The Apuseni Mountains. The results validate the effectiveness of the methodology approached that assures a clear separation of the taxa. On the other side, it is confirmed that the species and subspecies that belong to Parapholeuon might be easily identified,while the discrimination of those included in the subgenus Pholeuon (s. str.) rise sometimes complex difficulties.