Cnemodesmus : Cook 1896
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Description
Cnemodesmus: Cook 1896: 97; 1898: 705; Hoffman 1953: 80; 1968: 212; Kraus 1958: 49; Jeekel 1968: 105; 1971: 219; Hamer 1998: 25; Shelley et al. 2000: 93.
Dysthymus Attems, 1929: 276 (partim). Synonymised by Hoffman (1968: 212).
Lundacus Chamberlin, 1951: 69. Synonymised under Dysthymus by Hoffman (1953: 82).
Type species: Paradesmus thysanopus Cook & Collins, 1893, by monotypy.
Diagnosis: Cones on sternite 5 fused together. Legs 4–6 of male with third joint enlarged below into a distinct tuberculiform process (Fig. 5). Gonopod tibiotarsus and solenomere coiled and bent ventrally (Fig. 2).
Remarks: The non-Namibian species referred to this genus, namely C. calundensis Kraus, 1958, C. brunneus (Attems, 1929) and C. thysanopus (Cook & Collins, 1893), were described from Angola and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- : Cook
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Order
- Polydesmida
- Family
- Paradoxosomatidae
- Genus
- Cnemodesmus
- Taxon rank
- genus
- Taxonomic concept label
- Cnemodesmus Cook, 1896 sec. Vohland & Hamer, 2013
References
- COOK, O. F. 1896. East African Diplopoda of the suborder Polydesmoidea, collected by Mr. William Astor Chanler. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 18: 81 - 111.
- HOFFMAN, R. L. 1953. Scolodesmus and related African millipede genera (Polydesmida: Strongylosomatidae). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 66: 75 - 84.
- JEEKEL, C. A. W. 1968. On the classification and geographical distribution of the family Paradoxosomatidae (Diplopoda, Polydesmida). Rotterdam: Bronder-Offset.
- COOK, O. F. & COLLINS, G. N. 1893. The Myriapods collected by the Eclipse Expedition to West Africa 1889 - 1890. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 8: 24 - 40.