Cleidogona Cook

Shear, William A., 2013, A new miniature species of the milliped genus Cleidogona from Costa Rica (Diplopoda, Chordeumatida, Cleidogonidae), with a review of Central American Cleidogonidae, Zootaxa 3635 (1), pp. 87-93 : 89

Genus Cleidogona Cook

Cleidogona Cook, 1895 , p. 3

I revised this genus in 1972 (see the revision for extensive generic synonymies) and just a few Mexican and North American species have been added since (see Hoffman 1999). Cleidogona bifurca Loomis , from Costa Rica, is the only Central American species to have been described since 1972 (Loomis 1974). Because some species are known only from females, others have not been illustrated, and holotypes have been lost, it is not possible to present a key to this genus in Central America. Those species known from males, and for which material was available for study, are illustrated in my 1972 monograph. The subsequently described species C. bifurca was illustrated by Loomis (1974).