Genus Pyrgodesmus Pocock, 1892

Type-species: Pyrgodesmus obscurus Pocock 1892, by monotypy.

Other species included: Pyrgodesmus permutatus (Attems, 1936), comb. nov.

Diagnosis of Pyrgodesmus

Pyrgodesmus seems to be particularly similar to Klimakodesmus in most somatic characters, as correctly noted by Carl (1932) and recently reinstated by Aswathy et al. (2021). Yet both genera are distinct primarily in gonopodal structure: hypertrophied coxites, a deep gonocoel and ribbon-shaped, unipartite, distally attenuating, but not acuminate telopodites (Figs 5–8, 29 & 30), vs. moderately incrassate, apparently smaller, subspherical or squarish coxites, each of which supports a strong and unipartite telopodite represented solely by a slender, strongly exposed, increasingly attenuating and acuminate solenomere. In addition, PM crests, including the one on the penultimate ring that overhangs and conceals the epiproct from above, are much higher and stronger, whereas DL reduced, in Pyrgodesmus compared to Klimakodesmus species (Aswathy et al. 2021).