Hingstonia
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Ordo: Diplopoda
Familia: Trichopolydesmidae
Name
Hingstonia Carl, 1935 – Wikispecies link – ZooBank link – Pensoft Profile
Diagnosis
20 segments (♂, ♀); pore formula normal, ozopores lying opposite 3rd incision, placed closer to lateral than to caudal margin of paratergite; ♂ vertex unmodified, paraterga keel-shaped, rather well developed, 3 rows of short, bacilliform to clavate setae on knobs; ♂ legs nearly normal, often with sphaerotrichomes; gonopod coxae from modest to large (gonocoel also from modest to deep), telopodites strongly exposed, usually massive, never fringed; sph(distal part of telopodite) complex, at least with one process or outgrowth, usually more; sl a rather long, simple, apical or subapical branch.
Type species
Hingstonia eremita Carl, 1935, by monotypy.
Remarks
This relatively species-rich, well-defined, Himalayan genus mostly contains relatively large species (up to 20 mm long).
