Peronorchus Attems, 1907

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 : 30-31

Peronorchus Attems, 1907

Diagnosis.

19 segments (♂, ♀); pore formula normal, ozopores placed closer to lateral than to caudal margin of paratergite; ♂ vertex unmodified; paraterga very small, body nearly cylindrical, 3 rows of 3+3 or 4+4, rather long bacilliform metatergal setae (regard less of lateral setae on paraterga); gonopod coxae with gonocoel not deep; telopodites clearly exposed, without parabasal processes, moderately curved and held parallel to each other; sph bifid distally, with sl a rather long, flagelliform, apical branch lying in sph fork.

Type species.

Peronorchus parvicollis Attems, 1907, by monotypy.

Remarks.

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