Pandirodesmus Silvestri 1932

Shelley, Rowland M. & Smith, Jamie M., 2015, The enigmatic milliped genus Pandirodesmus Silvestri 1932 and description of a new species from Tobago represented by males (Polydesmida: Leptodesmidea: Chelodesmidae: Chelodesminae: Pandirodesmini), Insecta Mundi 2015 (444), pp. 1-15 : 3-4

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Genus Pandirodesmus Silvestri 1932 View in CoL

Pandirodesmus Silvestri 1932: 1–3 View in CoL , 11. Attems, 1940: 483. Jeekel, 1971: 343. Hoffman, 1975 (text): 143; 1980: 153. Adis and Golovatch, 2000 (text): 98, 100, 105–106.

Type-species. Pandirodesmus disparipes Silvestri 1932 View in CoL , by original designation.

Diagnosis. With the characters of the tribe.

Distribution. Same as that of the tribe ( Fig. 2 View Figures 2–3. 2 ).

Adis, J., and S. I. Golovatch. 2000. Notes on the unique structure of the spiracles and legs in Pandirodesmus disparipes Silvestri, 1932 (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Chelodesmidae), with some possible implications concerning its mode of life. Fragmenta Faunistica 43: 97 - 108.

Attems, C. 1940. Myriapoda 3, Polydesmoidea III. Fam. Polydesmidae, Vanhoeffeniidae, Cryptodesmidae, Oniscodesmidae, Sphaerotrichopidae, Peridontodesmidae, Rhachidesmidae, Macellolophidae, Pandirodesmidae. Das Tierreich 70: 1 - 576 + i - xxxii.

Hoffman, R. L. 1975. Chelodesmid studies VI. A synopsis of the tribe Trachelodesmini (Diplopoda: Polydesmida). Studies on the Neotropical Fauna 10: 127 - 144.

Jeekel, C. A. W. 1971. Nomenclator generum et familiarum Diplopodorum: A list of the genus and family-group names in the class Diplopoda from the l 0 th edition of Linnaeus, 1758, to the end of 1957. Monografieen van de Nederlandse Entomologishe Vereniging 5: 1 - 412.

Silvestri, F. 1932. A new and extraordinary genus of the diplopod family, Polydesmidae, from British Guiana. American Museum Novitates Number 564: 1 - 12.

Figures

Figures 2–3. 2) Stump where the first two series of P. rutherfordi were discovered. 3) Setting of the stump in secondary forest along Pirate’s Bay Trail near Charlotteville, Tobago. The red circles in both figures enclose the surface areas, originally beneath bark, where P. rutherfordi was found.