Condyloderes Higgins, 1969.

Genus Condyloderes Higgins, 1969. View in CoL

Emended diagnosis

Mouth cone with 9 individual outer oral styles with broader base and thin and flexible anterior part; 14 trichoscalids each originating from a 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 lateral rows in narrower placids and two or three lateral rows in broader placids; midventral placid with two or three apical condyles, zero or two in intermediate lateral row, and 3 ‾ 6 in basal lateral 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 2 ‾ 9, lateroventrally or in lateral accessory position on segment 1, laterodorsally on segment 10 in male and in stage-1 female (in species with more than one adult life history stage), and lateral accessorily on segment 11 (= lateral terminal accessory spine); cuspidate spines present on two or more segments from 1 to 9; type-3 sensory spot ventrolaterally next to lateral terminal accessory spine and subdorsally or laterodorsally 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.