Crassipetalum Akkari & Stoev, 2023

Akkari, Nesrine, Macek, Oliver & Stoev, Pavel, 2023, A revision of the millipede family Paracortinidae (Diplopoda, Callipodida), ZooKeys 1187, pp. 341-399 : 341

Crassipetalum Akkari & Stoev gen. nov.

Type species.

Crassipetalum magnum Akkari & Stoev, sp. nov.

Included species.

Crassipetalum magnum Akkari & Stoev, sp. nov.; Crassipetalum inflatum (Chen, Zheng & Jian, 2023), comb. nov.

Diagnosis.

Head with no projection on vertex, leg-pairs 6 and 7 without noticeable modifications. Gonopods parallel, distal part of the telopodites crossing. Each gonopod with a large clavate prefemoroidal process (pf1) reaching the distal part of telopodite (and sometimes accompanied by a smaller one); coxa with a protruding rounded anterior projection and a large coxal process, latter almost of the same size as the telopodite. Telopodite (T) with a stout stem, distally expanding in three main folds including a horizontal mesal projection accommodating the solenomere (s) and parasolenomere (ps). Different from all the other genera of Paracortinidae by the enlarged mesal falcate coxal process and prefemoroidal process, and by the shape of the distal part of the telopodites.

Etymology.

A combination of crassus, meaning fat/stout, referring to the large mesal coxal process and petalum a suffix used in many genera in the order Callipodida .