Cnemodesmus Cook, 1896

Vohland, Katrin & Hamer, Michelle, 2013, A review of the millipedes (Diplopoda) of Namibia, with identification keys and descriptions of two new genera and five new species, African Invertebrates 54 (1), pp. 251-251 : 257-258

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scientific name	Cnemodesmus Cook, 1896
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Genus Cnemodesmus Cook, 1896 View in CoL

Cnemodesmus: Cook 1896: 97 View in CoL ; 1898: 705; Hoffman 1953: 80; 1968: 212; Kraus 1958: 49; Jeekel 1968: 105; 1971: 219; Hamer 1998: 25; Shelley et al. 2000: 93.

Dysthymus Attems, 1929: 276 View in CoL (partim). Synonymised by Hoffman (1968: 212).

Lundacus Chamberlin, 1951: 69 View in CoL . Synonymised under Dysthymus View in CoL by Hoffman (1953: 82).

Type species: Paradesmus thysanopus Cook & Collins, 1893 , by monotypy.

Diagnosis: Cones on sternite 5 fused together. Legs 4–6 of male with third joint enlarged below into a distinct tuberculiform process ( Fig. 5). Gonopod tibiotarsus and solenomere coiled and bent ventrally ( Fig. 2).

Remarks: The non-Namibian species referred to this genus, namely C. calundensis Kraus, 1958 , C. brunneus (Attems, 1929) and C. thysanopus ( Cook & Collins, 1893) , were described from Angola and the Democratic Republic of Congo.