Review of the millipede family Trichopolydesmidae in the Oriental realm (Diplopoda, Polydesmida), with descriptions of new genera and species
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Golovatch, Sergei I.
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Geoffroy, Jean-Jacques
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VandenSpiegel, Didier
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ZooKeys
2014
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19
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.414.7671
journal article
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.414.7671
1313-2970-414-19
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Assamodesmus
Manfredi, 1954
Diagnosis.
19 segments (♂, ♀), pore formula normal, ozopores placed closer to lateral than to caudal margin of paratergite; ♂ vertex unmodified, paraterga modest, 3 rows of bacilliform metatergal setae; gonopod telopodites subfalcate and clearly twisted, held parallel to main body axis, strongly exposed (gonocoel small); solenomere (sl) a long, simple, distal spine with an adjacent, distal, bipartite solenophore (sph) consisting of an apical spine and a massive velum.
Type species.
Assamodesmus lindbergi
Manfredi, 1955, by original designation.
Remarks.
This well-defined Himalayan genus remains monobasic.