Kukkalodesmus
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Ordo: Diplopoda
Familia: Trichopolydesmidae
Name
Kukkalodesmus Carl, 1932 – Wikispecies link – ZooBank link – Pensoft Profile
Diagnosis
20 segments (♂, ♀); pore formula normal, ozopores lying opposite 2nd 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 metatergal setae on knobs; ♂ femur 3 strongly enlarged; gonopod coxae not very large (gonocoel modest), telopodites strongly exposed; sph distal, complex, with 2 caudal lobes and a frontal process, sl a small, plumose, subapical branchlet.
Type species
Kukkalodesmus exiguus Carl, 1932, by monotypy.
Remarks
This monotypic genus seems to be rather poorly defined versus Sholaphilus, Pseudosphaeroparia, Coonoorophilus and Ootacadesmus, especially given the strong variation in gonopod structure in the relatively species-rich genera Sholaphilus and Pseudosphaeroparia (see also above and below).
