Elgonicola Attems, 1939

Golovatch, S. I., Fiemapong, A. R. Nzoko, Tamesse, J. L., Mauries, J. - P. & VandenSpiegel, D., 2018, Trichopolydesmidae from Cameroon, 1: The genus Hemisphaeroparia Schubart, 1955. With a genus-level reclassification of Afrotropical genera of the family (Diplopoda, Polydesmida), ZooKeys 785, pp. 49-98 : 52

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https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.785.27422

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scientific name

Elgonicola Attems, 1939
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Type-species.

Elgonicola jeanneli Attems, 1939, by original designation; Uganda.

Twenty segments (male, female); body length 8 mm. Male head without epicranial modifications. Paraterga moderate, tergal setae very long, slender and bacilliform. Gonopodal coxae very large, gonocoel deep, concealing most of telopodite; seminal groove short and straight, ending subapically on a short solenomere (sl); apical part of telopodite with two small branches (ab and bb), one of which (ab) a slender hook (Figure 1D).