Rharodesmus Schubart, 1960

Akkari, Nesrine & Enghoff, Henrik, 2011, Rharodesmus Schubart, 1960 — a tropical element in the North African fauna: a new species from Tunisia and notes on the family Pyrgodesmidae (Diplopoda: Polydesmida), Zootaxa 2985, pp. 55-63 : 56

Genus Rharodesmus Schubart, 1960

Rharodesmus Schubart, 1960: 27 . Type species: Rharodesmus cherifiensis Schubart, 1960 ( Morocco) by original designation.

Diagnosis (Based on Schubart 1960). Body with 20 ‘segments’ (18 podous + 1 apodous body rings + telson) in both sexes; collum with 10 lobes on the front margin and concealing the head from above, body rings strongly arched, terga with 2 paramedian, 2 dorsolateral and 2 lateral rows of tubercles (and 2 indistinctly delimited ventrolateral rows of smaller ones); paraterga with two lobes and an additional one on the poriferous segments; ozopores on rings 5, 7, 9, 10, 13, 15 and 16, preanal ring with 6 lobes. Gonopods with large, hemispherical coxae completely covering the lateral side of the telopodites, prefemur transverse and setose, tibiotarsus distally bifurcating into two branches: one uniformly broad and furrowed at the tip, the second distally extended and apically divided into a downturned solenomerite and an accessory processes.