Anoplodesmus Pocock, 1895

Genus Anoplodesmus Pocock, 1895 View in CoL

Type species.

Anoplodesmus anthracinus Pocock, 1895 (p. 798, fig. 5), by subsequent designation.

Type locality.

Myanmar (Rangoon).

Type specimen.

NHMUK.

Diagnosis.

The genus is easily recognized by the following characters: paraterga modest or strongly reduced, legs usually with tarsal brushes, sterna usually with four cones, gonopod more or less elaborate, with or without a distofemoral process, both lamina medialis and lamina lateralis well-developed with several obvious lobes, solenomere as long as solonophore or extremely long ( Golovatch and Semenyuk 2010).

The concept of this genus was discussed more clearly by Golovatch (1999) and Golovatch and Semenyuk (2010).

Remarks.

This genus can be divided into two groups, based on the length of the solenomere. The A. elongissimus group, showing a relatively to extremely long solenomere, currently consists of seven species: A. elongissimus , A. perplexus , A. spiniger , A. aspinosus , A. nguyeni , A. chinensis , and A. anichkini . All of the remaining species seem to belong to the A. anthracinus group, characterized by a short solenomere, which either fails to or barely exceeds the solenophore ( Golovatch and Semenyuk 2021).