Nyssodesmus Cook, 1896

Golovatch, Sergei I., Korotayeva, Alyona M. & Martínez-Torres, Daniela, 2024, Three species of the millipede family Platyrhacidae from Costa Rica: a new Barydesmus Cook, 1896 and two oldest Nyssodesmus Cook, 1896 (Diplopoda Polydesmida), Zootaxa 5538 (5), pp. 424-438 : 428

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https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5538.5.2

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14248169

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scientific name

Nyssodesmus Cook, 1896
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Genus Nyssodesmus Cook, 1896 View in CoL

Type species: Nyssodesmus alboalatus Cook, 1896 , by original designation.

13 described species, from Nicaragua to Panama ( Recuero & Sánchez-Vialas 2018).

Diagnosis. Differs from other genera of the family in the gonopodal telopodite usually being longer, with acropodite much like in Barydesmus (see above), but rather abruptly ( vs smoothly) bent towards coxite, often with a considerably expanded lateral branch ( lb) and a solenomere ( sl) of varying degrees of development, from virtually absent to long and directed sublaterad (cf. Shelley & Martínez-Torres 2013).

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