Geotypodon Enghoff, 2016

Enghoff, Henrik, 2022, Mountains of millipedes. The family Odontopygidae in the Eastern Arc Mountains of Tanzania (Diplopoda, Spirostreptida), European Journal of Taxonomy 803, pp. 1-136 : 57

Genus Geotypodon Enghoff, 2016

Type species

Geotypodon millemanus Enghoff, 2016 ( Tanzania) , by original designation.

Other included species

Twenty-two, including one species described as new here, see Enghoff (2016a, 2018).

Diagnosis (modified from Enghoff 2018)

Differs from other genera of Prionopetalini by the combination of the following characters: gonopod coxa with a basad metaplical spine on the anterior side; torsotope compact; absence of pre-torsal or torsal spines/processes; post-torsal narrowing procounced; solenomere slender, whiplike; telomere consisting of various lobes and lamellae with largely smooth margins

Remarks

Although Geotypodon does provide a ‘home’ for several orphaned species of Odontopyge from various parts of tropical Africa (cf. Hoffman 1991) as well as a number of recently described species, the genus remains quite inhomogeneous, see Enghoff (2016a, 2018).