Revision of Agathodesmus Silvestri, 1910 (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Haplodesmidae) Author Mesibov, Robert Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery, Launceston, Australia text ZooKeys 2009 2009-06-18 12 12 87 110 journal article 10.3897/zookeys.12.206 a7e349dc-b498-4233-ade4-a73f3271e501 1313–2970 576462 702BCAE3-5B0A-49EA-8603-D60826241F2C Agathodesmus Silvestri, 1910 Agathodesmus . Silvestri 1910:362 . Attems 1914:282 , 1940:487 . Brölemann 1916 :547,587 . Jeekel 1971:310 ; 1982:11 ; 1983:146 ; 1985 :50,51 ; 1986:46 . Hoffman 1980:184 . Simonsen 1990:57 . Golovatch et al. 2009:2 . Atopogonus . Carl 1926:386 . Attems 1940:477 . Verhoeff 1941:406 . Jeekel 1971:314 , 1984:88 , 1986:46 . Hoffman 1980:186 , 1999:480 . Simonsen 1990:57 . Golovatch et al. 2001:185, 2009:2,44. New synonymy. Type species. Agathodesmus steeli Silvestri, 1910 , by original designation; of Atopogonus , A. baccatus ( Carl, 1926 ) comb. n. , by monotypy. Other included species: A. bucculentus ( Jeekel, 1986 ) comb. n. , A. johnsi sp. n. Diagnosis . Small Polydesmida with head and 19 or 20 rings; body not curling in spiral; head and telson facing downwards; metatergites with numerous tubercles of different sizes, the largest sometimes bearing a single seta; ring 2 tergite extended laterally, basally and anteriorly, and edged with large tubercles; no paranota on posterior rings, sometimes replaced by short row of large tubercles just above leg bases; gonopod with neither cannula nor prostatic groove, telopodite consisting of more or less cylindrical basal portion with broad, flattened structure arising posterodistally on basal portion of telopodite and bent basally or basolaterally.