Kukkalodesmus 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 : 29

Kukkalodesmus Carl, 1932

Diagnosis.

20 segments (♂, ♀); pore formula normal, ozopores lying opposite 2nd incision, placed closer to lateral than to caudal margin of paratergite; ♂ vertex unmodified, paraterga keel-shaped, rather well developed, 3 rows of short, bacilliform to clavate metatergal setae on knobs; ♂ femur 3 strongly enlarged; gonopod coxae not very large (gonocoel modest), telopodites strongly exposed; sph distal, complex, with 2 caudal lobes and a frontal process, sl a small, plumose, subapical branchlet.

Type species.

Kukkalodesmus exiguus Carl, 1932, by monotypy.

Remarks.

This monotypic genus seems to be rather poorly defined versus Sholaphilus , Pseudosphaeroparia , Coonoorophilus and Ootacadesmus , especially given the strong variation in gonopod structure in the relatively species-rich genera Sholaphilus and Pseudosphaeroparia (see also above and below).