Agathodesmus Silvestri 1910
Creators: name: Mesibov, Robert
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Diplopoda
Polydesmida
Haplodesmidae
Agathodesmus

description: <i>Agathodesmus</i> Silvestri, 1910 <i>Agathodesmus</i>. Silvestri 1910:362. Attems 1914:282, 1940:487. Brölemann 1916:547,587. Jeekel 1971:310; 1982:11; 1983:146; 1985:50,51; 1986:46. Hoffman 1980:184. Simonsen 1990:57. Golovatch et al. 2009:2. <i>Atopogonus</i>. Carl 1926:386. Attems 1940:477. Verhoeff 1941:406. Jeekel 1971:314, 1984:88, 1986:46. Hoffman 1980:186, 1999:480. Simonsen 1990:57. Golovatch et al. 2001:185, 2009:2,44. <b>New synonymy.</b> <b>Type species.</b> <i>Agathodesmus steeli</i> Silvestri, 1910, by original designation; of <i>Atopogonus</i>, <i>A. baccatus</i> (Carl, 1926) <b>comb. n.</b>, by monotypy. Other included species: <i>A. bucculentus</i> (Jeekel, 1986) <b>comb. n.</b>, <i>A. johnsi</i> <b>sp. n.</b> <b>Diagnosis.</b> Small Polydesmida with head and 19 or 20 rings; body not curling in spiral; head and telson facing downwards; metatergites with numerous tubercles of different sizes, the largest sometimes bearing a single seta; ring 2 tergite extended laterally, basally and anteriorly, and edged with large tubercles; no paranota on posterior rings, sometimes replaced by short row of large tubercles just above leg bases; gonopod with neither cannula nor prostatic groove, telopodite consisting of more or less cylindrical basal portion with broad, flattened structure arising posterodistally on basal portion of telopodite and bent basally or basolaterally.
description: Published as part of <i>Mesibov, Robert, 2009, Revision of Agathodesmus Silvestri, 1910 (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Haplodesmidae), pp. 87-110 in ZooKeys 12 (12)</i> on page 92, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.12.206, http://zenodo.org/record/576462
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