Rhamphidarpoides Kraus 1960

Frederiksen, Sara B. & Enghoff, Henrik, 2015, East African odontopygid millipedes 4: A restricted redefinition of the genus Rhamphidarpoides Kraus, 1960, a related new genus, five new species, and notes on solenomere function (Diplopoda; Spirostreptida; Odontopygidae), Zootaxa 3926 (4), pp. 541-560 : 543

Genus Rhamphidarpoides Kraus 1960

Type species: Rhamphidarpoides ruandensis Kraus 1960

Diagnosis. Gonopod coxa simple, with a basad spine or fold on apex, telomere reasonably short, simple and lamellate, with a basal telomeric spine. Torsotope not extended, often with a process. Solenomere slender, lamellate, as long as or slightly longer than telomere, often with a few to numerous spines in a row running the length or part of it, or at the very least with fluting. Limbus serrated, with or without several smaller spines on the edge of each lobe.

Etymology. The name means “like Rhamphidarpe ”. The meaning of Rhamphidarpe was not explained by Attems (1914), but the name is composed of two Greek nouns: rhamphos, meaning “beak”, and harpe, meaning “sickle” (or “hook”). “Beak-hook” may refer to the basad coxal process of the type species, Rhamphidarpe malleolus (Attems, 1912) .

Distribution. Central and East Africa, from DR Congo to Ethiopia and South Sudan.