Geotypodon Enghoff, 2016

Enghoff, Henrik, 2022, Mountains of millipedes. The family Odontopygidae in the Eastern Arc Mountains of Tanzania (Diplopoda, Spirostreptida), European Journal of Taxonomy 803, pp. 1-136 : 57

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5852/ejt.2022.803.1691

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:8B66C8AE-F00A-42F6-9641-26B0ECC49F78

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6373822

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03F15C39-D61D-060F-FDBC-FC34C647F9B3

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scientific name

Geotypodon Enghoff, 2016
status

 

Genus Geotypodon Enghoff, 2016 View in CoL

Type species

Geotypodon millemanus Enghoff, 2016 ( Tanzania) View in CoL , by original designation.

Other included species

Twenty-two, including one species described as new here, see Enghoff (2016a, 2018).

Diagnosis (modified from Enghoff 2018)

Differs from other genera of Prionopetalini by the combination of the following characters: gonopod coxa with a basad metaplical spine on the anterior side; torsotope compact; absence of pre-torsal or torsal spines/processes; post-torsal narrowing procounced; solenomere slender, whiplike; telomere consisting of various lobes and lamellae with largely smooth margins

Remarks

Although Geotypodon does provide a ‘home’ for several orphaned species of Odontopyge from various parts of tropical Africa (cf. Hoffman 1991) as well as a number of recently described species, the genus remains quite inhomogeneous, see Enghoff (2016a, 2018).

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