Megaloparia Brolemann, 1920

Golovatch, S. I., Fiemapong, A. R. Nzoko, Tamesse, J. L., Mauries, J. - P. & VandenSpiegel, D., 2018, Trichopolydesmidae from Cameroon, 1: The genus Hemisphaeroparia Schubart, 1955. With a genus-level reclassification of Afrotropical genera of the family (Diplopoda, Polydesmida), ZooKeys 785, pp. 49-98 : 53

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https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.785.27422

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scientific name

Megaloparia Brolemann, 1920
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Type-species.

Sphaeroparia (Megaloparia) lignivora Brolemann, 1920, by subsequent designation by Attems (1940); Kenya.

Twenty segments (male, female); body length 6.5 mm. Male head without epicranial modifications. Paraterga moderate, tergal setae very short. Gonopodal coxae unusually small, leaving telopodite mostly exposed and suberect; telopodite bipartite, seminal groove short and simple, ending on a short solenomere (sl) with a hairy pulvillus squeezed between both branches ab and bb (Figure 1B).