Review of the millipede family Haplodesmidae Cook, 1895, with descriptions of some new or poorly-known species (Diplopoda, Polydesmida)
Author
Golovatch, Sergei
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Institute for Problems of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninsky pr. 33, Moscow 119071, Russia
Author
Geoffroy, Jean-Jacques
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Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Département Ecologie & Gestion de la Biodiversité, UMR 7179 du CNRS, Equipe EVOLTRAIT, 4, avenue du Petit Château, F- 91800 Brunoy, France
Author
Mauriès, Jean-Paul
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Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Département Systématique et Evolution, USM 602, Section Arthropodes Case Postale n ° 53, 61 rue Buffon F- 75231 Paris, France
Author
VandenSpiegel, Didier
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Musée Royal de l’Afrique centrale, B- 3080 Tervuren, Belgium
text
ZooKeys
2009
2009-04-07
7
7
1
53
journal article
10.3897/zookeys.7.117
7a12aaad-a568-4920-91cf-af3e9407eadc
1313–2970
576436
67B4D2EC-2C6D-4226-847D-0BA2B2777AE3
Genus
Helodesmus
Cook, 1896
Type
species:
Helodesmus porosus
Cook, 1896
, by monotypy (
type
locality: Java, Indonesia).
=
Gonomastis
Attems, 1930
.
Type
species:
Gonomastis parvula
Attems, 1930
, by original designation. Synonymized by
Hoffman (1964)
.
=
Porauxus
Chamberlin, 1945
.
Type
species:
Porauxus pangrangus
Chamberlin, 1945
, by original designation. Synonymized by
Hoffman (1964)
.
Diagnosis
.
Body with 19 segments, subcylindrical, not capable of volvation, with paraterga 2 rather well developed, but subsequent ones mostly represented by lateral swellings. Collum still large, covering the head from above, with 4-5 transverse rows of setigerous tubercles or pits. Following paraterga with three rows of similar tubercles or pits. Pore formula: 5, 7-17(18). Gonopods with poorly setose gonocoxae and a considerably shortened prefemoral+femoral (= setose) part, deeply biramous thereafter, with a long and flagelliform solenomere devoid of a hairpad.