Genus Banatodesmus Tabacaru, 1980

Type species.

Trichopolydesmus (Banatodesmus) jeanneli Tabacaru, 1980, by monotypy.

Diagnosis.

Different from other European Trichopolydesmidae by the presence of an enlarged, oval, paddle-like solenomere (s in Fig. 4), with an additional, small, claw-like, distal solenomeral process (dsp in Fig. 4).

In addition, the diagnosis can be amended with the following combination of characters: medium-sized species (7-7.5 mm), 20 body rings (including telson), rings with 4-6 irregular rows of long trichoid metatergal setae, sensilla basiconica completely enclosed inside the pit of antennomere 6, hypoproct with only two long distal setae, paraprocts with only 2+2 long setae, gonopod acropodite divided into two branches, solenophore (sph in Fig. 4) with three processes, of which the longest is S-shaped (broken off in the SEM image).