Nedyopus Attems 1914
Creators: name: Chen, Chao-Chun
name: Golovatch, Sergei I.
name: Chang, Hseuh-Wen
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2006
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Diplopoda
Polydesmida
Paradoxosomatidae
Nedyopus

description: Key to the Taiwanese species of Nedyopus   
1. Paraterga relatively to rather well developed (Figures 1–3, 32–34, 55, 56, 83, 84); metatergal transverse sulcus reaching base of paraterga 5–18; pleurosternal carinae with a caudal tooth on segments 5(6)–7; gonopod femorite narrowed to moderately broadened at base............... 2  
– Paraterga very poorly developed (Figures 11–13, 22–24, 42–44, 65–67, 75, 76, 91, 92); metatergal transverse sulcus not reaching base of paraterga 5–18, or reaching the base only on some segments; pleurosternal carinae without caudal teeth; gonopod femorite always moderately broadened at base........ 3  
 2. Size larger: body length 26–31 mm, width 3.5–4.8 mm; colour pattern not contrasting; antennae long (reaching midpoint of metatergum 4); only few tergal setae until segment 3 (Figure 32); axial line evident from collum to end of epiproct; gonopod femorite narrow at base, lamella (l) not divided; telopodite tip with three lobes (Figures 39–41, 115, 116, 118–120)....... N. latus   
 – Body size smaller: length 12–18 mm, width 1.4–1.8 mm; colour pattern contrasting; antennae short (only reaching end of segment 2); numerous setae on all postcollar metaterga (Figures 1–3, 54, 55, 57, 58); axial line poorly visible or absent; gonofemorite moderately broadened at base, lamella (l) divided; telopodite tip with two lobes (Figures 8–10, 97–102)........ N. hsientienensis   
 3. Coloration black-brown; antennae relatively long (reaching segment 4); calluses delimited by a sulcus both dorsally and ventrally; metatergal transverse sulcus on segments 4–19, reaching base of paraterga 5, 7–18; gonopod lamella (l) divided, without denticulation at margin; telopodite tip with only one lobe, bearing up to three lobules (Figures 19–21, 103–105)......... N. pectinatus   
 – Coloration light brown; antennae short (reaching segment 2); calluses delimited by a sulcus only dorsally; metatergal transverse sulcus on segments 5–18, not reaching base of paraterga; gonopod lamella (l) not divided, margin denticulate; telopodite tip with more than one lobe............. 4   
 4. Epiproct long and widely bifid (Figures 25, 77); pleurosternal carinae on segments 2–4 to segments 2–7, with caudal teeth on segments 5–7; two sternal cones between „ coxae 4 (Figures 27, 80); solenophore with three apical lobes (Figures 29–31, 109, 110, 114)............ N. caudatus   
 – Epiproct short and narrowly emarginate (Figures 45, 93, 94); pleurosternal carinae on segments 2–7; a narrowly notched, linguiform, sternal lamina between „ coxae 4 (Figures 47, 96); solenophore with four apical lobes (Figures 49–52, 121, 122, 126)..................... N. wui
description: Published as part of Chen, Chao-Chun, Golovatch, Sergei I. & Chang, Hseuh-Wen, 2006, The millipede tribe Nedyopodini, with special reference to the fauna of Taiwan (Diplopoda: Polydesmida: Paradoxosomatidae), pp. 3997-4030 in Journal of Natural History 39 (47) on pages 4027-4028, DOI: 10.1080/00222930600556112, http://zenodo.org/record/5226520