Rhopalomeris Verhoeff, 1906

Nguyen, Anh D., Sierwald, Petra & Marek, Paul E., 2019, The pill millipedes of Vietnam: a key to genera and descriptions of five new species (Diplopoda: Glomerida: Glomeridae), Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 67, pp. 260-297 : 292

Genus Rhopalomeris Verhoeff, 1906

Type species. Rhopalomeris carnifex ( Pocock, 1889) by subsequent designation.

Remarks. The genus Rhopalomeris is strictly known from the mainland of southeast Asia ( Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia) with four described species ( Golovatch & Semenyuk, 2016). Two have been recorded from Vietnam: R. tonkinensis Silvestri, 1917 from Lang Son Province, northern Vietnam and R. variegata Golovatch & Semenyuk, 2016 from Gia Lai Province in the Highlands of Vietnam. The other two species are known from Thailand, Malaysia ( R. monacha Silvestri, 1917 ) and Myanmar ( R. carnifex Pocock, 1889 ). The genus is characterised by antenna having numerous apical sensory cones, antennomere 6 unusually large, trichosteles present in both the prefemur and femur of telopods. An identification key to Rhopalomeris species was recently provided by Golovatch & Semenyuk (2016).