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<mods:titleid="413C95DCA78524886D51CFF488A92A07">Mountains of millipedes. The family Odontopygidae in the Eastern Arc Mountains of Tanzania (Diplopoda, Spirostreptida)</mods:title>
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. The usually highly complex gonopods in most cases allow recognition at the species level, but referring a species to a genus is very often difficult, to say the least. Certain genera are well characterized and circumscribed, e.g.,
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<emphasisid="B92C313DD628063AFEDAFD08C751FCDD"box="[297,637,747,773]"italics="true"pageId="13"pageNumber="14">Odontopyge sensu auctorum</emphasis>
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<bibRefCitationid="EFC990DED628063AFD6AFD08C663FCDE"author="Enghoff H."box="[665,847,747,774]"pageId="13"pageNumber="14"pagination="1 - 19"refId="ref47336"refString="Enghoff H. 2016 a. A mountain of millipedes III: A new genus for three new species from the Udzungwa mountains and surroundings, Tanzania, as well as several ' orphaned' species previously assigned to Odontopyge Brandt, 1841 (Diplopoda, Spirostreptida, Odontopygidae). European Journal of Taxonomy 177: 1 - 19. https: // doi. org / 10.5852 / ejt. 2016.177"type="journal article"year="2016">Enghoff 2016a</bibRefCitation>
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. When describing a new species one therefore often faces the choice between stretching an existing genus concept and erecting a new, usually monotypic genus (cf. Introduction and Discussion).
