Peronorchus Attems, 1907

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 : 30-31

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/462540FE-6941-727E-DE8B-5CF2F3009C26

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scientific name

Peronorchus Attems, 1907
status

 

Peronorchus Attems, 1907 View in CoL

Diagnosis.

19 segments (♂, ♀); pore formula normal, ozopores placed closer to lateral than to caudal margin of paratergite; ♂ vertex unmodified; paraterga very small, body nearly cylindrical, 3 rows of 3+3 or 4+4, rather long bacilliform metatergal setae (regard less of lateral setae on paraterga); gonopod coxae with gonocoel not deep; telopodites clearly exposed, without parabasal processes, moderately curved and held parallel to each other; sph bifid distally, with sl a rather long, flagelliform, apical branch lying in sph fork.

Type species.

Peronorchus parvicollis Attems, 1907, by monotypy.

Remarks.

This genus strongly resembles Nasodesmus and Mastodesmus , but seems to be sufficiently well defined.