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This species was described on the basis of a single juvenile female. Even in the absence of more material, T. uncinifer can be justifiably excluded from Typhloiulus. The species has ozopores opening right on the suture and a characteristically unciform subanal scale. These two characters are not seen in any other species of Typhloiulus and, as Akkari et al. (2011) noted, T. uncinifer may be in fact related to Titanophyllum spiliarum Akkari et al., 2011, of the tribe Brachyiulini, found in a cave in western mainland Greece.

Typhloiulus (?) uncinifer based on a juvenile collected on Cephalonia Island in Greece. As the question mark indicates, the assignment of this species to Typhloiulus is tentative - judged from the original description,trhe only indication in this direction is the lack of eyes. Ten years later, another julid with a hook on the subanal scale, Syrioiulus andreevi Mauries, 1984 was described (Mauries 1984), and now we add Titanophyllum spiliarum to the group possessing this peculiar character. We suspect that Typhloiulus (?) uncinifer, rather than belonging to the tribe Typhloiulini, may be related to T. spiliarum. Even if this is not true, we now have hook-bearing species belonging to at least three tribes : Oncoiulini (Unciger), Pachyiulini (Syrioiulus), and Brachyiulini (Titanophyllum).