Genus, Silvestri, 1896

Enghoff, Henrik, 2022, A mountain of millipedes X: Species of Pyrgodesmidae and Cryptodesmidae in the Udzungwa Mountains, Tanzania (Diplopoda, Polydesmida), European Journal of Taxonomy 845, pp. 66-100 : 84-85

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5852/ejt.2022.845.1955
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:CC9F793D-5AD6-4D7C-A25C-7B2C58CAB4C0
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7271382
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03AA87BF-FFBB-C96E-FD23-F9F58C0F4C53
treatment provided by	Felipe
scientific name	Genus
status

Treatment

Genus View in CoL ? species?

Material examined

TANZANIA • 1 fragment; Udzungwa Mtrs, Iringa Region, Udzungwa Scart Forest Reserve, above Chita Village; 1600–1650 m a.s.l.; 8–12 Nov. 1984; N. Scharff leg.; montane rain forest; NHMD 621848 .

Descriptive notes

SIZE. Fragment (9 podous + 1 apodous ring + telson); maximal body width (across metazona) 1.03 mm.

OTHER CHARACTERS. A “stylodesmiform” pyrgodesmid sensu Mauriès & Maurin (1981), with strongly declivent paraterga and 2+2 large tubercles on metazonae; moderately incrusted.

Remarks

In the absence of a male this specimen cannot even be referred to a genus.