Atopogonus Carl, 1926

Golovatch, Sergei, Geoffroy, Jean-Jacques, Mauriès, Jean-Paul & VandenSpiegel, Didier, 2009, Review of the millipede family Haplodesmidae Cook, 1895, with descriptions of some new or poorly-known species (Diplopoda, Polydesmida), ZooKeys 7 (7), pp. 1-53 : 44

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.3897/zookeys.7.117
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3792474
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scientific name	Atopogonus Carl, 1926
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Genus Atopogonus Carl, 1926 View in CoL

Type species: Atopogonus baccatus Carl, 1926 View in CoL , by monotypy (type locality: New Caledonia, France).

Diagnosis. Body with 20 segments, subcylindrical, not capable of volvation, with paraterga 2 rather well developed, but subsequent ones represented by lateral swellings at most. Collum small; collum and following paraterga microtuberculate or granular. Gonopods with small virtually bare and reduced gonocoxae and peculiar, strongly geniculate telopodite, coupled with no traces of either a coxal cannula or a seminal groove.