Assamodesmus Manfredi, 1954

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
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scientific name	Assamodesmus Manfredi, 1954
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Treatment

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Diagnosis.

19 segments (♂, ♀), pore formula normal, ozopores placed closer to lateral than to caudal margin of paratergite; ♂ vertex unmodified, paraterga modest, 3 rows of bacilliform metatergal setae; gonopod telopodites subfalcate and clearly twisted, held parallel to main body axis, strongly exposed (gonocoel small); solenomere (sl) a long, simple, distal spine with an adjacent, distal, bipartite solenophore (sph) consisting of an apical spine and a massive velum.

Type species.

Assamodesmus lindbergi Manfredi, 1955, by original designation.

Remarks.

This well-defined Himalayan genus remains monobasic.