Telodrepanum, Carl, 1932

Golovatch, Sergei I., Aswathy, Mathilakath Dasan, Bhagirathan, Usha & Sudhikumar, Ambalaparambil Vasu, 2021, Review of the millipede tribe Polydrepanini, with the description of a new species from Kerala state, southern India (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Paradoxosomatidae, Alogolykinae), Zootaxa 5068 (4), pp. 485-516 : 506

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).

Figures

FIGURES 58–60. Telodrepanum badaga Carl, 1932. 58. Male leg 1, lateral view. 59. Male leg 2, lateral view. 60. Distal half of left gonopod, mesal view. After Carl (1932). Abbreviations: a and b, mesal distofemoral processes; ad, adenostyle; lo, lateral protecting lobe; sl, solenomere; sph, solenophore. Drawn not to scale.

FIGURES 61–64. Telodrepanum sp. from Dharwar, India. Entire right gonopod, dorsomesal, mesal, subventral and sublateral views, respectively. After Golovatch (1984). Abbreviations: a and b, mesal distofemoral processes; k, basal loop of solenomere; lo, lateral protecting lobe; p, coxital process; sl, solenomere; sph, solenophore. Scale bar: 1.0 mm.