Check list of the Venezuelan millipedes species Author Bueno-Villegas, Julián Author Sierwald, Petra Author De Ascenção, Antonio A. text Zootaxa 2019 2019-10-15 4686 2 151 201 journal article 25226 10.11646/zootaxa.4686.2.1 25715e93-04e8-44fb-a43d-ff97b0f9d7b7 1175-5326 3490075 5C0F743B-C3D1-4B7C-A39E-656F95BDEFC7 Genus Tridesmus Cook, 1896 Note: see discussion of genus name and status Tridesmus in Jorgensen & Sierwald 2010 : International Journal of Myriapodology, 3(1): 38. The type species of this genus was never validly described. Tridesmus cognatus Silvestri, 1898 Tridesmus cognatus Silvestri, 1898 . Anales del Museo Nacional de Buenos Aires , 6 (ser. 2, vol. 3): 63; HT (ZMUC). Cryptodesmus ? Cognatus — Attems 1899 . Denkschriften der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Wien , Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Classe, 68: 368. Tridesmus cognatus — Jorgensen & Sierwald 2010 . International Journal of Myriapodology, 3(1): 38. Distribution in Venezuela : Caracas, Miranda State . Tridesmus serratus Silvestri, 1898 Tridesmus serratus Silvestri, 1898 . Anales del Museo Nacional de Buenos Aires, 6(3): 63; HT (ZMUC). Cryptodesmus (?) serratus — Attems 1899 . Denkschriften der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Wien, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Classe, 68: 368. Tridesmus serratus — Jorgensen & Sierwald 2010 . International Journal of Myriapodology, 3(1): 38. Distribution in Venezuela : Dos Caminos, Caracas Municipality, Miranda State . Specimens of the order Polydesmida reported in collections: FMNH (catalog # 3121116, 3121114, Miranda State ; 3121144, Mérida State ; 5930, 13077, 11538, Aragua State ).