Rharodesmus Schubart, 1960 — a tropical element in the North African fauna: a new species from Tunisia and notes on the family Pyrgodesmidae (Diplopoda: Polydesmida) Author Akkari, Nesrine Author Enghoff, Henrik text Zootaxa 2011 2985 55 63 journal article 10.5281/zenodo.202201 c910f090-5e2a-45f9-830d-354e9774a433 1175-5326 202201 Genus Rharodesmus Schubart, 1960 Rharodesmus Schubart, 1960 : 27 . Type species: Rharodesmus cherifiensis Schubart, 1960 ( Morocco ) by original designation. Diagnosis (Based on Schubart 1960 ). Body with 20 ‘segments’ (18 podous + 1 apodous body rings + telson) in both sexes; collum with 10 lobes on the front margin and concealing the head from above, body rings strongly arched, terga with 2 paramedian, 2 dorsolateral and 2 lateral rows of tubercles (and 2 indistinctly delimited ventrolateral rows of smaller ones); paraterga with two lobes and an additional one on the poriferous segments; ozopores on rings 5, 7, 9, 10, 13, 15 and 16, preanal ring with 6 lobes. Gonopods with large, hemispherical coxae completely covering the lateral side of the telopodites, prefemur transverse and setose, tibiotarsus distally bifurcating into two branches: one uniformly broad and furrowed at the tip, the second distally extended and apically divided into a downturned solenomerite and an accessory processes.