Syndesmogenus Attems, 1909

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 : 91

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5852/ejt.2022.803.1691
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6373719
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scientific name	Syndesmogenus Attems, 1909
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Genus Syndesmogenus Attems, 1909 View in CoL

Type species

Syndesmogenus gracilis Attems, 1909 ( Tanzania) View in CoL , by original designation.

Other included species

Seventeen, including one species described as new here, see Kraus (1960), Demange (1965), Pierrard (1970), Vohland & Hamer (2013).

Diagnosis (modified from Kraus 1960)

Differs from other genera of Prionopetalini by the combination of small size, a basad metaplical process on the gonopod coxa, a very long, slender solenomere (much longer than telomere), and often a subapical spinelike side branch on the solenomere.

Remarks

This genus of small odontopygids is widely distributed in West, Central, East and southern Africa.