Tonkinomeris Nguyen, Sierwald & Marek, 2019

Liu, Weixin & Golovatch, Sergei, 2020, The first representatives of the millipede family Glomeridellidae (Diplopoda, Glomerida) recorded from China and Indochina, ZooKeys 954, pp. 1-15 : 1

Genus Tonkinomeris Nguyen, Sierwald & Marek, 2019

Type species.

Tonkinomeris napoensis Nguyen, Sierwald & Marek, 2019, from northern Vietnam, by original designation ( Nguyen et al. 2019).

Other species included: T. huzhengkuni sp. nov., southern China.

New diagnosis.

A genus of Glomeridellidae with the caudal margins of several ♂ tergites sometimes modified into small lobes drawn posteriad into small lobes; the caudal margin of the ♂ pygidium is clearly emarginate centrally; the anterior telopods are flattened sagittally, somewhat incrassate, with evident mesal outgrowths on either T3 alone or both T2 and T3; posterior telopods with a trichotele (sometimes rudimentary) on T1, each of T2 and T3 with a caudal process and both forming a rather indistinct apical pincer.