Cocacolaria Hoffman, 1987

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 : 28

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.414.7671

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:C1E83718-BC85-44A6-9F00-ED4C93D758B5

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/88081434-B83E-023B-6212-BA8035CE0571

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scientific name

Cocacolaria Hoffman, 1987
status

 

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Diagnosis.

19 (♂) or 20 (♀) segments, pore formula normal, ozopores placed closer to lateral than to caudal margin of paratergite; ♂ vertex unmodified, paraterga poorly developed, 3 rows of sharp long metatergal setae, metatergal sculpture (bosses) unusually high; gonopod telopodites subfalcate, crossing mesally, very strongly exposed (gonocoel small); sl a small branchlet at midway along telopodite; sph distal to sl unipartite, large, bifid and rather simple.

Type species.

Cocacolaria hauseri Hoffman, 1987, by original designation.

Remarks.

This genus remains monobasic, its sole constituent species being quite widespread in Melanesia. Cocacolaria hauseri is redescribed below, based on samples from Vanuatu.