Diaphorodesmoides, VandenSpiegel, Didier, Golovatch, Sergei I. & Mauries, Jean-Paul, 2016

VandenSpiegel, Didier, Golovatch, Sergei I. & Mauries, Jean-Paul, 2016, Review of the western African millipede genus Diaphorodesmus Silvestri, 1896 (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Chelodesmidae), with the description of a similar, but new monotypic genus from Cameroon, ZooKeys 600, pp. 7-24 : 11

Taxon classification Animalia Polydesmida Chelodesmidae

Diaphorodesmoides gen. n.

Type species.

Diaphorodesmoides lamottei sp. n., by present designation.

Name.

To emphasize the strong resemblance to Diaphorodesmus Silvestri, 1896, particularly in sharing the conspicuous dorsal horns on metaterga 2-4.

Diagnosis.

A genus of Prepodesminae, Chelodesmidae that differs by the presence of a single, conspicuous, increasingly long, dorsomedian horn on each of metaterga 2-4, coupled with the ozopores not being borne on porosteles, but opening flush dorsolaterally on the surface of poriferous paraterga; the spiracles tubiform, unusually long and slender; and the gonopod telopodites being suberect, in situ directed forward, held parallel to each other, not crossing mesally; prefemoral (= densely setose) part erect, taking up ca 2/3 of total gonotelopodite length, without femorite, but with a more complex dorsal postfemoral process (pfp), set off from acropodite by a distinct cingulum; acropodite clearly twisted, divided parabasally into three large lobes, the middle of which forming a large solenomere lobe (slo) with only a minor solenomere proper (sl) on top, slo being neatly squeezed between a larger mesal uncus (u) and a smaller lateral branch (lb), both u and lb forming a solenophore.