Hemisphaeroparia Schubart, 1955

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

Hemisphaeroparia Schubart, 1955
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Type-species.

Hemisphaeroparia cumbula Schubart, 1955, by original designation; Guinea, Côte d’Ivoire.

Twenty segments (male, female); body length 3.5-4 mm. Male head without epicranial modifications. Paraterga moderate, tergal setae medium-sized and bacilliform. Gonopodal coxae very large, gonocoel deep, concealing most of telopodite; seminal groove short, ending on a simple finger-shaped solenomere (sl); telopodite basically tripartite, with a large, central, sac-shaped part and two slightly higher, subflagelliform, adjacent, lateral branches (ab and bb) (Figure 2F, G).