Mastodesmus Carl, 1911

Golovatch, Sergei I., Geoffroy, Jean-Jacques & VandenSpiegel, Didier, 2014, Review of the millipede family Trichopolydesmidae in the Oriental realm (Diplopoda, Polydesmida), with descriptions of new genera and species, ZooKeys 414, pp. 19-65 : 29-30

publication ID	https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.414.7671
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:C1E83718-BC85-44A6-9F00-ED4C93D758B5
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scientific name	Mastodesmus Carl, 1911
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Treatment

Mastodesmus Carl, 1911 View in CoL

Diagnosis.

20 segments (♂, ♀); pore formula normal, ozopores placed closer to lateral than to caudal margin of paratergite; ♂ vertex unmodified, paraterga almost missing and set low, 3 rows of long, curved, simple metatergal setae on unusually prominent tubercles; gonopod coxae modest (gonocoel not very deep), telopodites bipartite in distal half, well exposed, very simple; sph a simple exomere branch, sl a long, simple, caudal spine branching off from distal half of telopodite.

Type species.

Mastodesmus zehntneri Carl, 1911, by monotypy.

Remarks.

This monobasic genus strongly resembles Peronorchus and Nasodesmus , but seems to be sufficiently well defined.