Trichozonus Carl, 1905

Golovatch, Sergei I., Fiemapong, Armand Richard Nzoko & VandenSpiegel, Didier, 2019, Trichopolydesmidae from Cameroon, 2: A species-level reclassification of Afrotropical trichopolydesmids (Diplopoda, Polydesmida), with two new species and two new records from Cameroon, and two new species from the Nimba Mountains, Guinea, ZooKeys 891, pp. 31-59 : 31

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scientific name

Trichozonus Carl, 1905
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Trichozonus Carl, 1905

Type species.

Trichozonus escalerae Carl, 1905, the type species by monotypy, Equatorial Guinea ( Carl 1905).

Description.

Female. 20 segments, body length 8 mm; paraterga modest, tergal setae long and bacilliform.

Remarks.

This genus is bound to remain dubious until a male topotypic sample from Fernando Po becomes available for study. The only other trichopolydesmid known from Fernando Po is Dendrobrachypus pusillus Verhoeff, 1941 (= Mecistoparia pusilla ), which is only 5.0-5.5 mm long ( Verhoeff 1941). Mauriès and Heymer (1996) tentatively synonymized Trichozonus with Physetoparia .