Hyperbolus, Enghoff, Henrik, 2011

Enghoff, Henrik, 2011, East African giant millipedes of the tribe Pachybolini (Diplopoda, Spirobolida, Pachybolidae), Zootaxa 2753, pp. 1-41 : 16

Hyperbolus new genus

Type species: Hyperbolus apicomplexus n. sp.

Inlcluded species. Hyperbolus apicomplexus n. sp., Hyperbolus morogoroensis ( Kraus, 1958) , n. comb.. Etymology. Name formed in analogy with many other names in the order Spirobolida , masculine. Diagnosis. A genus of East African Pachybolini characterized by

- coxal lobes on male legs 6 and 7

- one pair of ventral macrosetae on male legs from pair 5 onward - a distal complex of parallel ridges on posterior gonopod

- a free solenomerite on posterior gonopod

- distinct overlapping mesal lobes on anterior gonopod telopodites - no moveable appendix, no striated membranous lamellae, no mesal process on posterior gonopod - no long meso-distal process on anterior gonopod coxite

- apical margin of winglike expansions of second female coxae angled - an apical appendix on oral vulval valve