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Cnemodesmus : Cook 1896

Description

Genus Cnemodesmus Cook, 1896

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.

Notes

Published as part of Vohland, Katrin & Hamer, Michelle, 2013, A review of the millipedes (Diplopoda) of Namibia, with identification keys and descriptions of two new genera and five new species, pp. 251 in African Invertebrates 54 (1) on pages 257-258

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Additional details

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.