Uncodrama, Enghoff, 2022

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 : 98-99

Genus Uncodrama gen. nov.

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Type species

Uncodrama coronata gen. et sp. nov.

Other provisionally included species

Uncodrama medjensis ( Chamberlin, 1927) comb. nov. ex Hapthysanus Attems, 1909. Congo.

Uncodrama tumidens (Karsch, 1881) comb. nov. ex. Spirostreptus ( Odontopyge ). S. Sudan.

Diagnosis

Differs from other genera of Prionopetalini by the combination of a subrectangular distal lobe on the proplica, a wide mesal opening between pro- and metaplica (gonocoel), a simple whiplike solenomere and a simple, ‘twisted boat’-shaped telomere with a distal, complicated antlerlike lobe.

Etymology

The genus name (gender feminine) is an anagram of Damacornu Enghoff, 2018, another genus with an antlerlike structure on the gonopod telopodite.

Remarks

In Kraus’ (1966) key to genera of “ Odontopyginae ”, Uncodrama coronata gen. et sp. nov. runs all the way through to Odontopyge , a name which was mis-applied until Hoffman (1991) clarified the situation. Enghoff (2016a) further addressed the “ Odontopyge problem”. Of the “orphaned” nominal Odontopyge species listed by Enghoff (2016a), one may provisionally be re-allocated to Uncodrama gen. nov., viz, O. medjensis ( Chamberlin, 1927) , judged from the original description ( Chamberlin 1927, as Haplothysanus m.) and the re-description by Kraus (1960). The same applies, with even more reservation, to O. tumidens (Karsch, 1881) , based on the re-description by Attems (1914).