Topalodesmus Golovatch, 1988
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/3369268F-17EF-BC57-A75B-AE3B50C3E237 |
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Topalodesmus Golovatch, 1988 |
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Topalodesmus Golovatch, 1988 View in CoL
Diagnosis.
20 segments (♂, ♀); pore formula normal, ozopores placed closer to lateral than to caudal margin of paratergite; ♂ vertex unmodified, paraterga modest, 3 rows of short simple/claviform metatergal setae; gonopod coxae massive, each with a prominent frontal process; gonocoel rather deep, but telopodites subfalcate and strongly exposed, tripartite, each with a strong, parabasal, unciform, caudomedial process, a short laterobasal stump-shaped exomere, and a prominent, elongate sph crowned with a small apical sl.
Type species.
Topalodesmus communis Golovatch, 1988, by original designation.
Remarks.
This monobasic Himalayan genus is well-defined (see also below under Monstrodesmus gen. n.).
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