Aponedyopus Verhoeff, 1939

Chen, Chao-Chun, Golovatch, Sergei I. & Chang, Hsueh-Wen, 2010, Revision of the endemic Taiwanese millipede genus Aponedyopus Verhoeff, 1939, with descriptions of two new species (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Paradoxosomatidae). Advances in the systematica of Diplopoda III, ZooKeys 72, pp. 1-21 : 2

Genus Aponedyopus Verhoeff, 1939

Aponedyopus Verhoeff 1939: 119; Takakuwa 1954: 49; Jeekel 1968: 75; Hoffman 1980: 170; Shinohara and Tanabe 1999: 681.

Diagnosis.

Medium- to large-sized Paradoxosomatidae (15-55 mm long, 2.0-5.0 mm wide) with 20 segments. Pore formula normal. Paraterga poorly developed, evident only on segment 2. An evident sternal lobe between ♂ coxae 4; ♂ segment 7 with or without a pair of prominent sternal cones (= spiracles) flanking gonopod aperture. ♂ tarsal brushes present.

Gonopod coxae long, subcylindrical, setose distodorsally, cannula as usual. Telopodites rather long, their distal parts crossingmedially in situ. Femorite long, moderately to evidently broadened parabasally on dorsal side, apically separated from postfemoral region by a clear oblique sulcus on lateral side; postfemoral part enlarged at base, tapering thereafter, demarcated from solenophore by a sulcus on mesal side; solenophoreshorter than to as long as femorite, curved first ventrad and then dorsad on mesal face, distally holding subparallel to broadened part of femorite; base of solenophore with a small to obvious, apically deeply bifid lobe; seminal groove first running fully on mesal face of femorite, then turning dorsad near postfemoral part and continuing onto solenomere at base of solenophore on dorsal face; solenomereflagelliform, long, at most only slightly longer than, and nearly completely supported/sheathed by, solenophore, with only tip of solenomere sometimes exposed.