Prosopodesmus Silvestri, 1910

Golovatch, Sergei, Geoffroy, Jean-Jacques, Mauriès, Jean-Paul & VandenSpiegel, Didier, 2009, Review of the millipede family Haplodesmidae Cook, 1895, with descriptions of some new or poorly-known species (Diplopoda, Polydesmida), ZooKeys 7 (7), pp. 1-53 : 43

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.3897/zookeys.7.117
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3792470
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scientific name	Prosopodesmus Silvestri, 1910
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Genus Prosopodesmus Silvestri, 1910 View in CoL

Type species: Prosopodesmus jacobsoni Silvestri, 1910 View in CoL , by original designation (type locality: Batavia (= Jakarta), Java, Indonesia).

= Homodesmus Chamberlin, 1918 View in CoL . Type species: Homodesmus parvus Chamberlin, 1918 View in CoL , by original designation. Synonymized by Loomis (1950).

= Rhipidopeltis Miyosi, 1958 View in CoL . Type species: Rhipidopeltis sinuata Miyosi, 1958 View in CoL , by original designation, n. syn.

Diagnosis. Body with 20 segments, pyrgodesmid-like, not capable of volvation, with rather well developed and declivous paraterga. Metaterga with three transverse rows of bosses/tubercles. Gonopods strongly resembling those of typical Polydesmidae , being rather simple, unciform; coxae with only a few ventrolateral setae; telopodites sometimes with a lateral outgrowth at midway, always devoid of a separate solenomere branch; seminal groove terminating distally or apically, hairpad often present.