Condyloderes Higgins 1969, sp. nov.

Condyloderes Higgins, 1969

Included species. Condyloderes kurilensis Adrianov & Maiorova, 2016; C. multispinosus (McIntyre, 1962) Higgins, 1969; C. paradoxus Higgins, 1969; C. setoensis Adrianov, Murakami & Shirayama, 2002; C. shirleyi sp. nov. Neuhaus & Higgins; C. storchi Higgins, 2004 in Martorelli & Higgins, 2004.

Emended diagnosis. Mouth cone with 9 individual outer oral styles with broader base and thin and flexible anterior part; 14 trichoscalids each originating from trichoscalid plate and accompanied anteriorly by two pointed filamentous appendages; 16 placids with broader midventral placid, neighboured by two narrower placids and alternatingly a broader and a narrower placid; all placids with knobby projections (= condyles) in one or two rows in narrower placids and two or three rows in broader placids; midventral placid with three apical condyles, two in intermediate row, and 3–6 in basal row; ventromedial to midventral free flap and primary pectinate fringe of segment 1 at least partly reduced; acicular spine middorsally on segments 1–9, midterminally on segment 11 (= midterminal spine), lateroventrally on segments 1–9, laterodorsally on segment 10 (male only in species with irregularly distributed or almost no cuticular hairs), and lateral accessorily on segment 11 (= lateral terminal accessory spine); cuspidate spines present; type-3 sensory spot ventrolaterally next to lateral terminal accessory spine and subdorsally on segment 11; type-6 sensory spot elevated above trunk surface giving the impression to be half-drowned in the trunk cuticle; ventromedial appendage at least on two segments of segments 5–8 in female; area of micropapillae ventromedially on segment 9 in female of species with irregularly distributed or almost no cuticular hairs.