Melaphe Cook, 1904

Korsós, Zoltán & Golovatch, Sergei, 2025, First description of a male Melaphe apamea Hoffman & Lohmander, 1968 from Turkey (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Xystodesmidae), Biodiversity Data Journal 13, pp. e 156970-e 156970 : e156970-

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.13.e156970
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15437811
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scientific name	Melaphe Cook, 1904
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Melaphe Cook, 1904 View in CoL

Oxyurus vestitus C. L. Koch, 1847 Cook (1904): 55. Preoccupied and replaced View in CoL

Description

Diagnosis

The genus is characterised by the retention of a distinct sternite between the gonocoxae and by various details of gonopodal structure. Coxite simple, without apophyses; telopodites long and slender, in situ crossing each other distally, each arcuately curved anteroventrad, with neither prefemoral nor femoral processes ( Hoffman 1962).

Distribution

Mediterranean Region, North Africa and Near East ( Morocco, Algeria, Cyprus and Turkey), but one species in Ethiopia.