Nasodesmus Cook, 1896

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

publication ID	https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.414.7671
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scientific name	Nasodesmus Cook, 1896
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Treatment

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Diagnosis.

20 segments (♂, ♀); pore formula normal, ozopores placed closer to lateral than to caudal margin of paratergite; ♂ vertex unmodified, paraterga well developed, 3 rows of short simple metatergal setae; ♂ legs 3 strongly elongate, the femur very strongly enlarged; gonopod coxae not very large (gonocoel not too deep); telopodites strongly exposed, simple, unipartite, slightly curved mesad; sph (exomere) simple, strong, with a small process at base; sl a small, subapical, mesal branchlet.

Type species.

Polydesmus cognatus Humbert, 1865, by original designation.

Remarks.

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