Xiphidiogonus, Carl, 1932

Golovatch, Sergei I., Aswathy, Mathilakath Dasan, Bhagirathan, Usha & Sudhikumar, Ambalaparambil Vasu, 2021, Review of the millipede tribe Polydrepanini, with the description of a new species from Kerala state, southern India (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Paradoxosomatidae, Alogolykinae), Zootaxa 5068 (4), pp. 485-516 : 508

Diagnosis of Xiphidiogonus .

Gonofemorite slender, long, suberect and untwisted, with several (1–4) distomesal processes/spines; solenophore (sph) unusually small and strongly twisted, devoid of a basomesal protecting lobe to shield an indistinct basal loop/curve (k) of a free flagelliform solenomere (sl) ( Figs 67, 68 ).

Species included:

Xiphidiogonus spinipleurus Carl, 1932 , the type species,

Xiphidiogonu dravidus Carl, 1932 ,

Xiphidiogonus hendersoni Carl, 1932 ,

all from southern India ( Carl 1932).

The following Table and Key can be proposed to separate the accepted genera of Polydrepanini .

Figures

FIGURES 65–68. Xiphidiogonus spinipleurus Carl, 1932. 65. Male leg 1, lateral view. 66. Male leg 2, lateral view. 67. Entire right gonopod, mesal view. 68. Distal half of right gonopod, lateral view. After Carl (1932). Abbreviations: a, b, c and d, distofemoral processes; ad, adenostyle; fe, femorite; k, basal loop of solenomere; sl, solenomere; sph, solenophore. Drawn not to scale.