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
Magidesmus Golovatch, 1988
Diagnosis.
20 segments (♂), ♀ unknown; pore formula normal, ozopores placed closer to lateral than to caudal margin of paratergite; ♂ vertex unmodified, paraterga well developed and set quite high, 3 rows of short clavate metatergal setae; gonopod coxae very large (gonocoel deep), telopodites deeply sunken and barely exposed, sac-shaped, hollow in the middle, apically somewhat fringed; a sph missing, sl a small denticle at bottom of this hollow.
Type species.
Magidesmus bhutanensis
Golovatch, 1988, by original designation.
Remarks.
This small Himalayan genus is well-defined.