Diagnosis of Telodrepanum .

Gonofemorite slender, long, suberect and untwisted, with two distomesal processes (a and b), of which b is unusually large and shield-like; solenophore (sph) large and strongly coiled, with a basomesal protecting lobe (lo) to shield the basal loop of a free flagelliform solenomere (sl) (Figs 60–64).

Species included: T. badaga Carl, 1932, the type species (Carl 1932), as well as one more, yet undescribed species, both from southern India (Golovatch 1984).