Nyssodesmus Cook, 1896

Golovatch, Sergei I., Korotayeva, Alyona M. & Martínez-Torres, Daniela, 2024, Three species of the millipede family Platyrhacidae from Costa Rica: a new Barydesmus Cook, 1896 and two oldest Nyssodesmus Cook, 1896 (Diplopoda Polydesmida), Zootaxa 5538 (5), pp. 424-438 : 428

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scientific name	Nyssodesmus Cook, 1896
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Genus Nyssodesmus Cook, 1896 View in CoL

Type species: Nyssodesmus alboalatus Cook, 1896 , by original designation.

13 described species, from Nicaragua to Panama ( Recuero & Sánchez-Vialas 2018).

Diagnosis. Differs from other genera of the family in the gonopodal telopodite usually being longer, with acropodite much like in Barydesmus (see above), but rather abruptly (vs smoothly) bent towards coxite, often with a considerably expanded lateral branch (lb) and a solenomere (sl) of varying degrees of development, from virtually absent to long and directed sublaterad (cf. Shelley & Martínez-Torres 2013).

References

Cook, O. F. (1896) New American Platyrrhacidae. Brandtia, 12, 51 - 54. https: // doi. org / 10.1080 / 00029890.1896.11998753

Recuero, E. & Sanchez-Vialas, A. (2018) A new distinctive species of Barydesmus (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Platyrhacidae) from Ecuador, with an annotated bibliographical checklist of the American Platyrhacidae. Zootaxa, 4482 (2), 245 - 273. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 4482.2.2

Shelley, R. M. & Martinez-Torres, D. (2013) The milliped family Platyrhacidae (Polydesmida: Leptodesmidea) in the West Indies: Proposal of Hoffmanorhacus n. gen.; description and illustrations of males of Proaspis aitia Loomis, 1941; redescription of Nannorrhacus luciae (Pocock, 1894); hypotheses on origins and affinities; and an updated New World familial distribution. Zootaxa, 3626 (4), 477 - 498. https: // doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 3626.4.4