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
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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.