Diaphorodesmus Silvestri, 1896

VandenSpiegel, Didier, Golovatch, Sergei I. & Mauries, Jean-Paul, 2016, Review of the western African millipede genus Diaphorodesmus Silvestri, 1896 (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Chelodesmidae), with the description of a similar, but new monotypic genus from Cameroon, ZooKeys 600, pp. 7-24 : 9

Taxon classification Animalia Polydesmida Chelodesmidae

Genus Diaphorodesmus Silvestri, 1896

Diaphorodesmus Silvestri, 1896: 197.

Diaphorodesmus - Cook 1896: 16; Attems 1899: 311; 1931: 91; 1938: 409; Carl 1905: 271; Verhoeff 1938: 166; Hoffman 1980: 155.

Campodesmoides VandenSpiegel, Golovatch & Nzoko Fiemapong, 2015, syn. n.

Campodesmoides corniger VandenSpiegel, Golovatch & Nzoko Fiemapong, 2015, by original designation. Type species.

Type species.

Paradesmus dorsicornis Porat, 1894, by original designation.

Diagnosis.

A genus of Prepodesminae, Chelodesmidae that is distinguished by the presence of conspicuous paramedian, increasingly short, dorsal, horns on metaterga 2-4, coupled with the normal pore formula: 5, 7, 9, 10, 12, 13, 15-19, the ozopores being borne on conspicuous porosteles; the spiracles are small and inconspicuous; and the gonopod telopodites suberect, in situ directed forward, held parallel to each other, not crossing mesally; prefemoral (= densely setose) part erect, taking up about 2/3 of total gonotelopodite length, without a femorite part, but with a prominent dorsal process (pfp), set off from acropodite by a distinct cingulum; acropodite clearly twisted, divided parabasally into one smaller dorsobasal lobule (lo) and two large lamellar lobes, the ventral lobe forming a solenophore (sph) to support a dorsal solenomere lobe (slo) with only an indistinct, small solenomere proper on top.