Bactrodesmus Cook, 1896

Type-species.

Bactrodesmus claviger Cook, 1896, by subsequent monotypy; Liberia.

The genus was first proposed as a nomen nudum (Cook 1896a), but then properly typified (Cook 1896b). The sole useful information contained in the original description of B. claviger concerns its small size (7 mm long, 1 mm wide), typically micropolydesmid facies (small paraterga, large and clubbed tergal setae arranged in three transverse rows etc.), strongly enlarged gonocoxae that fully conceal the telopodites and, above all, male legs 2, especially their tibiae, greatly enlarged compared to others (Cook 1896b). No number of body segments has been given.