Peronorchus
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Ordo: Diplopoda
Familia: Trichopolydesmidae
Name
Peronorchus Attems, 1907 – Wikispecies link – ZooBank link – Pensoft Profile
Diagnosis
19 segments (♂, ♀); pore formula normal, ozopores placed closer to lateral than to caudal margin of paratergite; ♂ vertex unmodified; paraterga very small, body nearly cylindrical, 3 rows of 3+3 or 4+4, rather long bacilliform metatergal setae (regardless of lateral setae on paraterga); gonopod coxae with gonocoel not deep; telopodites clearly exposed, without parabasal processes, moderately curved and held parallel to each other; sph bifid distally, with sl a rather long, flagelliform, apical branch lying in sph fork.
Type species
Peronorchus parvicollis Attems, 1907, by monotypy.
Remarks
This genus strongly resembles Nasodesmus and Mastodesmus, but seems to be sufficiently well defined.
