Eupeyerimhoffia Broelemann , 1913

Oeyen, Jan Philip & Wesener, Thomas, 2015, Steps towards a phylogeny of the pill millipedes: non-monophyly of the family Protoglomeridae, with an integrative redescription of Eupeyerimhoffiaarchimedis (Diplopoda, Glomerida), ZooKeys 510, pp. 49-64 : 53-54

Taxon classification Animalia Glomerida Protoglomeridae

Eupeyerimhoffia Broelemann, 1913

Eupeyerimhoffia Brölemann, 1913: 166-174 (first description); Jeekel 1971: 13 (note); Strasser 1976: 581-583 (synonymization Trinacriomeris ); Hoffann 1980: 67 (list); Foddai et al. 1995: 11 (list); Shelley et al. 2000: 11 (list); Mauriès 2005: 242 (classification); Kime and Enghoff 2011: 39 (atlas).

Trinacriomeris Strasser, 1965: 10-14. syn.

Diagnosis.

Tergite 11 fused to anal shield. Telopod simple with four podomeres. Process of telopoditomere 2 of telopod short and stout. Male leg-pair 17 with four podomeres. Coxa of male leg-pair 18 not fused to syncoxite. Lateral palpi of gnathochilarium as large as inner palpi. One of the largest Glomerida , 18-22 mm long. Mandible with large condylus. Members might be mistaken in habitus, size and color with the species of the genus Onychoglomeris Verhoeff, 1909, whose species differ greatly in the telopods and many other characteristics.

Type species.

Eupeyerimhoffia algerina Brölemann, 1913 from Algeria

Other species included.

Eupeyerimhoffia archimedis (Strasser, 1965) from southern Sicily.