Anoplodesmus Pocock, 1895

Chen, Chao-Chun & Chang, Hseuh-Wen, 2010, The millipede genus Anoplodesmus Pocock, 1895, recorded in Taiwan for the first time, with descriptions of two new species (Diplopoda: Polydesmida: Paradoxosomatidae: Sulciferini), Zootaxa 2399, pp. 20-30 : 29

Anoplodesmus Pocock, 1895

Diagnosis: Smaller to relatively large Sulciferini (5–30 mm long) with paraterga from modest to missing. Male legs without adenostyles but usually with brushes on tarsi, often also on tibiae and even some other podomeres. Sternal lobe between male coxae 4 normally present, sometimes observed also between male coxae 5. Pleurosternal carinae and sternal cones often conspicuous, apparently in reverse relation to the degree of development of paraterga.

Gonopods relatively simple to highly complex. Coxite long, subcylindrical, setose distoventrally; cannula usual. Telopodite subfalcate to falcate, not erect, elongate, directed caudomesad to mesad. Prefemoral part normal, medium-sized, densely setose, much shorter than acropodite. Femorite slender to rather stout, usually about as long as solenophore, without evidence of torsion; laterally set off from postfemoral part by a more or less distinct demarcation sulcus; enlarged towards midway or end; often with a parabasal swelling/fold marking a distinct oblique groove or impression on mesal face and with a similar groove on lateral face; a distofemoral process/lobe usually present, lateral to caudolateral in position. Solenophore from rather simple to highly complex, usually with both a lamina lateralis and a lamina medialis well-developed, often with various outgrowths/processes. Solenomere flagelliform, long to extremely long, usually at least to a considerable extent sheathed by solenophore.

Type species: Anoplodesmus anthracinus Pocock, 1895

Complete generic synonymy is available in Golovatch (1993, 2000).