Topalodesmus Golovatch, 1988

Golovatch, Sergei I., Geoffroy, Jean-Jacques & VandenSpiegel, Didier, 2014, Review of the millipede family Trichopolydesmidae in the Oriental realm (Diplopoda, Polydesmida), with descriptions of new genera and species, ZooKeys 414, pp. 19-65 : 31-32

publication ID	https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.414.7671
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:C1E83718-BC85-44A6-9F00-ED4C93D758B5
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scientific name	Topalodesmus Golovatch, 1988
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Treatment

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Diagnosis.

20 segments (♂, ♀); pore formula normal, ozopores placed closer to lateral than to caudal margin of paratergite; ♂ vertex unmodified, paraterga modest, 3 rows of short simple/claviform metatergal setae; gonopod coxae massive, each with a prominent frontal process; gonocoel rather deep, but telopodites subfalcate and strongly exposed, tripartite, each with a strong, parabasal, unciform, caudomedial process, a short laterobasal stump-shaped exomere, and a prominent, elongate sph crowned with a small apical sl.

Type species.

Topalodesmus communis Golovatch, 1988, by original designation.

Remarks.

This monobasic Himalayan genus is well-defined (see also below under Monstrodesmus gen. n.).