Pandirodesmus Silvestri 1932

Shelley, Rowland M. & Smith, Jamie M., 2015, The enigmatic milliped genus Pandirodesmus Silvestri 1932 and description of a new species from Tobago represented by males (Polydesmida: Leptodesmidea: Chelodesmidae: Chelodesminae: Pandirodesmini), Insecta Mundi 2015 (444), pp. 1-15 : 3-4

Genus Pandirodesmus Silvestri 1932

Pandirodesmus Silvestri 1932: 1–3 , 11. Attems, 1940: 483. Jeekel, 1971: 343. Hoffman, 1975 (text): 143; 1980: 153. Adis and Golovatch, 2000 (text): 98, 100, 105–106.

Type-species. Pandirodesmus disparipes Silvestri 1932 , by original designation.

Diagnosis. With the characters of the tribe.

Distribution. Same as that of the tribe ( Fig. 2 ).

Figures

Figures 2–3. 2) Stump where the first two series of P. rutherfordi were discovered. 3) Setting of the stump in secondary forest along Pirate’s Bay Trail near Charlotteville, Tobago. The red circles in both figures enclose the surface areas, originally beneath bark, where P. rutherfordi was found.