Review of the millipede family Trichopolydesmidae in the Oriental realm (Diplopoda, Polydesmida), with descriptions of new genera and species
Author
Golovatch, Sergei I.
Author
Geoffroy, Jean-Jacques
Author
VandenSpiegel, Didier
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ZooKeys
2014
414
19
65
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.414.7671
journal article
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.414.7671
1313-2970-414-19
C1E83718BC8544A69F00ED4C93D758B5
Nasodesmus Cook, 1896
Diagnosis.
20 segments (♂, ♀); pore formula normal, ozopores placed closer to lateral than to caudal margin of paratergite; ♂ vertex unmodified, paraterga well developed, 3 rows of short simple metatergal setae; ♂ legs 3 strongly elongate, the femur very strongly enlarged; gonopod coxae not very large (gonocoel not too deep); telopodites strongly exposed, simple, unipartite, slightly curved mesad; sph (exomere) simple, strong, with a small process at base; sl a small, subapical, mesal branchlet.
Type species.
Polydesmus cognatus
Humbert, 1865, by original designation.
Remarks.
This monobasic genus strongly resembles
Peronorchus
and
Mastodesmus
, but seems to be sufficiently well defined.