Propolyxenus Silvestri, 1948

Duy-Jacquemin, Monique Nguyen, Uys, Charmaine & Geoffroy, Jean-Jacques, 2011, Two remarkable new species of Penicillata (Diplopoda, Polyxenida) from Table Mountain National Park (Cape Town, South Africa), ZooKeys 156, pp. 85-103 : 86

publication ID	https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.156.2211
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scientific name	Propolyxenus Silvestri, 1948
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Genus Propolyxenus Silvestri, 1948

Propolyxenus Silvestri, 1948: Nguyen Duy–Jacquemin and Geoffroy 2003: 100.

Propolyxenus Silvestri, 1948: Short and Huynh 2010: 13.

Remarks.

The genus is typical of the subfamily Polyxeninae , due to the structure of the telson, but shows more than 2 transverse rows of barbate trichomes on each tergite.