A review of the millipedes (Diplopoda) of Namibia, with identification keys and descriptions of two new genera and five new species
Author
Vohland, Katrin
Author
Hamer, Michelle
text
African Invertebrates
2013
2013-06-30
54
1
251
251
journal article
2305-2562
Genus
Condexenus
Nguyen Duy-Jacquemin, 2006
Condexenus
: Nguyen DuyJacquemin 2006: 238–247
, figs 1–25.
Type
species:
Condexenus biramipalpus
Nguyen Duy-Jacquemin, 2006
.
Diagnosis: Gnathochilarium with short median expansion, three trichobothria of equal size on head just median to ocelli, labral surface covered by numerous flat papillae with four to six posterior rows of smaller papillae, telotarsus without posterior lamellate process (Nguyen Duy-Jacquemin 2006).
Remarks: In the description of
Condexenus
, Nguyen Duy-Jacquemin (2006)
suggested that this genus has 11 tergites and 15 pairs of legs, as opposed to the 12 tergites and 17 pairs of legs in
Phryssonotus
. However, a recently described
Phryssonotus
species
from Table Mountain in
Cape
Town,
South Africa
, was found to have 11 tergites and 15 pairs of legs (
Nguyen Duy-Jacquemin
et al
. 2011
).
The genus is currently only known from the
type
species.