Hingstonia Carl, 1935

Golovatch, Sergei I., Geoffroy, Jean-Jacques & VandenSpiegel, Didier, 2014, Review of the millipede family Trichopolydesmidae in the Oriental realm (Diplopoda, Polydesmida), with descriptions of new genera and species, ZooKeys 414, pp. 19-65 : 28-29

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.414.7671

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:C1E83718-BC85-44A6-9F00-ED4C93D758B5

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/223E3FD6-4C28-243B-4FC9-65525B411726

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scientific name

Hingstonia Carl, 1935
status

 

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Diagnosis.

20 segments (♂, ♀); pore formula normal, ozopores lying opposite 3rd incision, placed closer to lateral than to caudal margin of paratergite; ♂ vertex unmodified, paraterga keel-shaped, rather well developed, 3 rows of short, bacilliform to clavate setae on knobs; ♂ legs nearly normal, often with sphaerotrichomes; gonopod coxae from modest to large (gonocoel also from modest to deep), telopodites strongly exposed, usually massive, never fringed; sph(distal part of telopodite) complex, at least with one process or outgrowth, usually more; sl a rather long, simple, apical or subapical branch.

Type species.

Hingstonia eremita Carl, 1935, by monotypy.

Remarks.

This relatively species-rich, well-defined, Himalayan genus mostly contains relatively large species (up to 20 mm long).