Pocockina, Jeekel, 1965

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 : 505-506

Diagnosis of Pocockina .

Gonofemorite slender, long, suberect and untwisted; solenophore (sph) large and cupshaped, expanded distad, with a distomesal protecting lobe (lo) to shield the basal loop (k) of a free flagelliform solenomere (sl) ( Figs 55–57 ).

Species included:

Pocockina pilifera (Pocock, 1895) (= Orthomorpha pilifera Pocock, 1895 ) ( Figs 54–57 ),

Pocockina jaegeri Golovatch, 2016b ,

Pocockina schawalleri Golovatch, 2016a ,

all three from Myanmar ( Jeekel 1965; Golovatch 2016a, 2016b).

Figures

FIGURES 54–57. Pocockina pilifera (Pocock, 1895). 54. Male leg 1, lateral view. 55. Entire right gonopod, mesal view. 56, 57. Distal half of left gonopod, lateral and mesal views, respectively. After Jeekel (1965). Abbreviations: ad, adenostyle; fe, femorite; k, basal loop of solenomere; lo, mesal protecting lobe; sl, solenomere; sph, solenophore. Drawn not to scale.