Pseudosphaeroparia Carl, 1932

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 : 31

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/F132046D-7F92-F8C0-88AE-7D9F11A0E276

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scientific name

Pseudosphaeroparia Carl, 1932
status

 

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Diagnosis.

20 segments (♂, ♀); pore formula normal, ozopores placed closer to lateral than to caudal margin of paratergite; ♂ vertex unmodified, paraterga modest to well developed, 3 rows of short clavate metatergal setae; gonopod coxae very large (gonocoel deep) to modest; telopodites from rather deeply sunken to rather clearly exposed, with or without parabasal processes; sph unipartite, with various outgrowths, sl a rather evident apical branch.

Type species.

Pseudosphaeroparia palnensis Carl, 1932, by original designation.

Remarks.

This small genus is quite poorly defined versus Sholaphilus , Coonoorophilus , Ootacadesmus and Kukkalodesmus (see also above and below).