Sholaphilus Carl, 1932

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 : 31

Sholaphilus Carl, 1932

Diagnosis.

20 segments (♂, ♀); pore formula normal, ozopores placed closer to lateral than to caudal margin of paratergite; ♂ vertex unmodified, paraterga modest to well developed, 3 rows of short clavate metatergal setae; gonopod coxae very large (gonocoel deep) to modest, sometimes with a strong frontal process; telopodites rather deeply sunken and usually only little exposed, but sometimes rather strongly exposed, with or without parabasal processes; sph uni- to only faintly bipartite, with various outgrowths, densely fringed, sl a small apical or subapical tooth or branchlet.

Type species.

Sholaphilus albidus Carl, 1932, by monotypy.

Remarks.

Even though this rather small genus is quite poorly defined versus Ootacadesmus , Pseudosphaeroparia , Coonoorophilus and Kukkalodesmus (see above), several species of Sholaphilus from the Himalayas have been described.