Cylindrodesmus Pocock, 1889

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 : 43-44

Genus Cylindrodesmus Pocock, 1889

Type species: Cylindrodesmus hirsutus Pocock, 1889 , by monotypy (type locality: Christmas Island, Australia).

= Haplosoma Verhoeff, 1894 . Type species: Haplosoma strubelli Verhoeff, 1894 , by monotypy. Synonymized by Pocock (1898).

= Haplosomum Brölemann, 1895 . Type species: Haplosoma strubelli Verhoeff, 1894 . Junior objective synonym of Haplosoma Verhoeff, 1894 , adopted to eliminate homonymy ( Jeekel 1971; Hoffman 1999).

= Haplodesmus Cook in Cook & Collins, 1895 . Type species: Haplosoma strubelli Verhoeff, 1894 . Junior objective synonym of Haplosoma Verhoeff, 1894 , adopted to eliminate homonymy ( Jeekel 1971).

= Haplosomides Attems, 1903 . Type species: Haplosomides moelleri Attems, 1903 , by monotypy. Synonymized by Attems (1907).

= Lasiodesmus Silvestri, 1908 . Type species: Lasiodesmus caraibicus Silvestri, 1908 , by monotypy. Synonymized by Loomis (1934).

= Inodesmus sensu Loomis 1934 , non Cook 1896 (see Golovatch et al. 2001 and above).

= Elatosus Chamberlin, 1945 . Type species: Elatosus pygmaeus Chamberlin, 1945 , by original designation. Synonymized by Hoffman (1980) and confirmed by Golovatch et al. (2001).

= Hypsoporus Loomis, 1969. Type species: Inodesmus globulosus Loomis, 1964 , by original designation. Synonymized by Enghoff (1978).

Diagnosis. Body with 19 (♂) or 20 (♀) segments, subcylindrical, not capable of volvation, with paraterga 2 rather well developed, but following ones mostly represented by lateral swellings. Collum and metaterga with abundant setation in part mixed with long, bisegmented, tactile setae. Gonopods especially simple; coxae with only a few ventrolateral setae; telopodite (= solenomere) sometimes with a lateral outgrowth at midway; seminal groove terminating subapically and devoid of a hairpad.