Published April 7, 2009 | Version v1
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Atopogonus Carl 1926

  • 1. Institute for Problems of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninsky pr. 33, Moscow 119071, Russia
  • 2. Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Département Ecologie & Gestion de la Biodiversité, UMR 7179 du CNRS, Equipe EVOLTRAIT, 4, avenue du Petit Château, F- 91800 Brunoy, France
  • 3. Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Département Systématique et Evolution, USM 602, Section Arthropodes Case Postale n ° 53, 61 rue Buffon F- 75231 Paris, France
  • 4. Musée Royal de l'Afrique centrale, B- 3080 Tervuren, Belgium

Description

Genus Atopogonus Carl, 1926

Type species: Atopogonus baccatus Carl, 1926, by monotypy (type locality: New Caledonia, France).

Diagnosis. Body with 20 segments, subcylindrical, not capable of volvation, with paraterga 2 rather well developed, but subsequent ones represented by lateral swellings at most. Collum small; collum and following paraterga microtuberculate or granular. Gonopods with small virtually bare and reduced gonocoxae and peculiar, strongly geniculate telopodite, coupled with no traces of either a coxal cannula or a seminal groove.

Notes

Published as part of Golovatch, Sergei, Geoffroy, Jean-Jacques, Mauriès, Jean-Paul & VandenSpiegel, Didier, 2009, Review of the millipede family Haplodesmidae Cook, 1895, with descriptions of some new or poorly-known species (Diplopoda, Polydesmida), pp. 1-53 in ZooKeys 7 (7) on page 44, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.7.117, http://zenodo.org/record/576436

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References

  • Carl J (1926) Diplopoden von Neu-Caledonien und Loyalty-Inseln. In: Sarasin F, Roux J (eds) Nova Caledonia, Zoologie 4: 369 - 462.