Magidesmus Golovatch, 1988

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 : 29

publication ID	https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.414.7671
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:C1E83718-BC85-44A6-9F00-ED4C93D758B5
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scientific name	Magidesmus Golovatch, 1988
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Treatment

Magidesmus Golovatch, 1988 View in CoL

Diagnosis.

20 segments (♂), ♀ unknown; pore formula normal, ozopores placed closer to lateral than to caudal margin of paratergite; ♂ vertex unmodified, paraterga well developed and set quite high, 3 rows of short clavate metatergal setae; gonopod coxae very large (gonocoel deep), telopodites deeply sunken and barely exposed, sac-shaped, hollow in the middle, apically somewhat fringed; a sph missing, sl a small denticle at bottom of this hollow.

Type species.

Magidesmus bhutanensis Golovatch, 1988, by original designation.

Remarks.

This small Himalayan genus is well-defined.