Pandirodesmus, Silvestri, 1932

Key to species of Pandirodesmus View in CoL

1. Male unknown, adult female larger: length ca 13 mm, width 2.1 mm ( Guyana)................ P. disparipes Silvestri, 1932 View in CoL

- Adult males and females smaller, up to 1.4 mm in width...................................................... 2

2. Gonopodal telopodite with a shorter and less strongly curved primary branch ( pb), a larger prefemoral process ( pfp) with more numerous “folds”, and a shorter and more stout secondary branch ( sb) ( Tobago)...... P. rutherfordi Shelley & Smith, 2015 View in CoL

- Telopodite with a longer and more strongly curved primary branch ( pb).......................................... 3

3. Prefemoral process ( pfp) with fewer “folds”, wide, and ventrally curved laterally as hook-shape and a longer and slimmer secondary branch ( sb) ( Trinidad)....................... P. jaggernauthi VandenSpiegel, Golovatch & Rutherford, 2022 View in CoL

- Prefemoral process ( pfp) elongated, broad and with a subtruncated apex, and a small and broad secondary branch ( sb) with basolateral fold inflexed ventrally ( Brazil).................................................... P. zogbiae sp. nov.