Published April 7, 2009 | Version v1
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Doratodesmus Cook in Cook & Collins 1895

  • 1. Institute for Problems of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninsky pr. 33, Moscow 119071, Russia
  • 2. Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Département Ecologie & Gestion de la Biodiversité, UMR 7179 du CNRS, Equipe EVOLTRAIT, 4, avenue du Petit Château, F- 91800 Brunoy, France
  • 3. Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Département Systématique et Evolution, USM 602, Section Arthropodes Case Postale n ° 53, 61 rue Buffon F- 75231 Paris, France
  • 4. Musée Royal de l'Afrique centrale, B- 3080 Tervuren, Belgium

Description

Genus Doratodesmus Cook in Cook & Collins, 1895

Type species: Doratonotus armatus Pocock, 1894. Proposed to replace the preoccupied Doratonotus Pocock, 1894 (Cook in Cook & Collins 1895) (type locality: Java, Indonesia).

= Hoplitesmus Chamberlin, 1945. Type species: Hoplitesmus enoplus Chamberlin, 1945. Synonymized by Jeekel (1955).

= Pauroplus Chamberlin, 1945. Type species: Pauroplus analdes Chamberlin, 1945, n. syn.

= Eucondylodesmus Miyosi, 1956. Type species: Eucondylodesmus elegans Miyosi, 1956, n. syn.

= Scolopopyge Hoffman, 1978. Type species: Scolopopyge pholeter Hoffman, 1978, n. syn.

= Selminarchus Hoffman, 1978. Type species: Selminarchus hispidus Hoffman, 1978, n. syn.

= Crenatidorsus Zhang in Zhang & Wang, 1993. Type species: Crenatidorsus grandifoliatus Zhang in Zhang & Wang, 1993, n. syn.

Diagnosis. Body “doratodesmid”, with or without mid-dorsal projections; conglobation complete. Gonopod coxae usually abundantly setose ventrolaterally; telopodite usually stout and strongly enlarged laterally towards end of femorite, with or without a short solenomere branch thereafter; acropodite variable, from absent to well-developed.

Notes

Published as part of Golovatch, Sergei, Geoffroy, Jean-Jacques, Mauriès, Jean-Paul & VandenSpiegel, Didier, 2009, Review of the millipede family Haplodesmidae Cook, 1895, with descriptions of some new or poorly-known species (Diplopoda, Polydesmida), pp. 1-53 in ZooKeys 7 (7) on page 45, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.7.117, http://zenodo.org/record/576436

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References

  • Pocock RI (1894) Chilopoda, Symphyla and Diplopoda from the Malay Archipelago. In: Weber M (ed.) Zoologische Ergebnisse einer Reise in Niederlandisch Ost-Indien 3: 307 - 404.
  • Chamberlin RV (1945) On some diplopods from the Indo-Australian Archipelago. American Museum Novitates 1282: 1 - 43.
  • Jeekel CAW (1955) Milliped miscellany II. Entomologische Berichten 15: 412 - 417.
  • Miyosi Y (1956) Beitrage zur Kenntnis japanischer Myriopoden. 17. Aufsatz: Uber eine neue Gattung von Oniscodesmidae und eine neue Art von Monotarsobius. Zoological Magazine 65 (8): 311 - 314.
  • Zhang Chunzhou, Wang Daqing (1993) Diplopoda in caves of Yunnan - 1. A study of new genera and species of the millipede family Doratodesmidae (Diplopoda: Polydesmida). In: Song Linhua, Ting Huaiyuan (eds) Karst Landscape and Cave Tourism. China Environmental Science Press, Beijing: 205 - 220.