Coxobolellus Pimvichai, Enghoff, Panha & Backeljau, 2020

Pimvichai, Piyatida, Enghoff, Henrik & Backeljau, Thierry, 2022, Two new millipede species of the genus Coxobolellus Pimvichai, Enghoff, Panha & Backeljau, 2020 (Diplopoda, Spirobolida, Pseudospirobolellidae), ZooKeys 1128, pp. 171-190 : 171

Genus Coxobolellus Pimvichai, Enghoff, Panha & Backeljau, 2020

Diagnosis.

Differing from the other genera of Pseudospirobolellidae by having (1) the coxae of the 3rd pair of male legs with extremely large, protruding processes (in C. albiceps and C. transversalis , this condition also applies to the 4th pair of male legs), (2) the 4th and 5th leg-pairs with large, triangular coxae, (3) short process of preanal ring protruding as far as, or slightly beyond, anal valves, and (4) the posterior gonopod telopodite divided into a coxal part (pcx) and a telopodital part (pt); with opening of efferent groove (oeg) at mesal margin at the end of coxal part (pcx).

Species description.

The two new species share all of the diagnostic characters of the genus Coxobolellus , as described in the general description section in Pimvichai et al. (2020: 599-601).