Ootacadesmus Carl, 1932

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

Ootacadesmus Carl, 1932

Diagnosis.

19 segments (♂), ♀ unknown; pore formula normal, ozopores placed closer to lateral than to caudal margin of paratergite; ♂ vertex unmodified, paraterga well developed, 3 rows of very short and simple metatergal setae; ♂ legs 3 clearly elongate, the femur very strongly enlarged; gonopod coxae very large (gonocoel deep); telopodites deeply sunken and only very little exposed, with a parabasal process; sph bipartite, with various apical outgrowths, including a lateral velum, sl a small subapical branchlet.

Type species.

Ootacadesmus humilis Carl, 1932, by original designation.

Remarks.

This monotypic genus seems to be rather poorly defined versus Sholaphilus , Pseudosphaeroparia , Coonoorophilus and Kukkalodesmus (see also above and below).