Cyphoderopsis Carpenter, 1917
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Genus Cyphoderopsis Carpenter, 1917
Type species Cyphoderopsis kempi Carpenter, 1917
Diagnosis of the genus: Medium sized Paronellidae of 0.8 to
2.5 mm. Body colour usually white or weakly pigmented. Habitus rather broad, antennae shorter than body, scales generally absent on legs, present on antennae, head, body and furca. Antennae with 4 segments: Ant. I the shortest and Ant. IV the longest; Ant. IV not subdivided. Tenant hair either pointed on clavate, claw with 0–2 inner teeth; one ( ceylonica group) or two ( kempi group) rows of dental spines.Forth abdominal segment 3 to7 times as long as the third measured along dorsal axis. Furcula well developed, about 1.8 to 2.8 times as long as body. Mucro rather stout, straight, normally with 3 main teeth, the apical one blunt, the sub-apical one small and acute, the dorso-basal one acute and longer with 0–5 toothless basally.
In Troglopedetes, Ant. IV is divided in two sub equal sub segments, but in Cyphoderopsis Ant. IV is not sub divided.
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