Review of the millipede family Haplodesmidae Cook, 1895, with descriptions of some new or poorly-known species (Diplopoda, Polydesmida) Author Golovatch, Sergei urn:lsid:zoobank.org:author:71532F45-BDD5-415D-BC54-86256E5D5D4A Institute for Problems of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninsky pr. 33, Moscow 119071, Russia Author Geoffroy, Jean-Jacques urn:lsid:zoobank.org:author:01CF9A1C-794D-4EE3-8AA0-DBE935A44CE2 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 urn:lsid:zoobank.org:author:2D362DC0-2CC3-42F5-A726-3104291BBED7 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 urn:lsid:zoobank.org:author:CE8C3D01-28AD-43F7-9D4F-04802E68CB1A Musée Royal de l’Afrique centrale, B- 3080 Tervuren, Belgium text ZooKeys 2009 2009-04-07 7 7 1 53 journal article 22701 10.3897/zookeys.7.117 7a12aaad-a568-4920-91cf-af3e9407eadc 1313–2970 576436 67B4D2EC-2C6D-4226-847D-0BA2B2777AE3 Genus Prosopodesmus Silvestri, 1910 Type species: Prosopodesmus jacobsoni Silvestri, 1910 , by original designation (type locality: Batavia (= Jakarta), Java, Indonesia). = Homodesmus Chamberlin, 1918 . Type species: Homodesmus parvus Chamberlin, 1918 , by original designation. Synonymized by Loomis (1950) . = Rhipidopeltis Miyosi, 1958 . Type species: Rhipidopeltis sinuata Miyosi, 1958 , by original designation, n. syn. Diagnosis . Body with 20 segments, pyrgodesmid-like, not capable of volvation, with rather well developed and declivous paraterga. Metaterga with three transverse rows of bosses/tubercles. Gonopods strongly resembling those of typical Polydesmidae , being rather simple, unciform; coxae with only a few ventrolateral setae; telopodites sometimes with a lateral outgrowth at midway, always devoid of a separate solenomere branch; seminal groove terminating distally or apically, hairpad often present.