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Male femora 5, 6 and 7 with an apophysis. Similar in this respect to G. parvoterga, but differs from this species by having paraterga longer; collum usually with 4+4 cones/spines (intermediate row); metaterga 2–8 usually with 4+4 cones/spines (anterior row), 4+4 cones/spines (intermediate row) and 4+4 cones/spines (posterior row); metaterga 9–12 usually with 5+5 cones/spines (anterior row), 5+5 cones/spines (intermediate row) and 5+5 cones/spines (posterior row); metaterga 13–19 usually with 6+6 cones/spines (anterior row), 6+6 cones/spines (intermediate row) and 6+6 cones/spines (posterior row).

Srisonchai, R.; Enghoff, H.; Likhitrakarn, N.; Panha, S. (2018). A revision of dragon millipedes III: the new genus Gigaxytes gen. nov., with the description of three new species (Diplopoda, Polydesmida, Paradoxosomatidae). <em>European Journal of Taxonomy.</em> (463). available online at https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2018.463 Available for editors