original description
Golovatch, S.I. (2018). Further notes on the millipede family Cryptodesmidae in Southeast Asia, with descriptions of a new genus and two new species from Indochina (Diplopoda: Polydesmida). <em>RAFFLES BULLETIN OF ZOOLOGY.</em> 66: 361-370., available online at https://lkcnhm.nus.edu.sg/app/uploads/2018/01/66rbz361-370.pdf
page(s): p. 364; note: New genus described from Vietnam [details] Available for editors
From editor or global species database
Taxonomic remark The new genus is highly peculiar in being the sole representative of Cryptodesmidae that shows the mid-dorsal
region of postcollum metaterga not flattened, but carrying a conspicuous, increasingly distinct, axial rib. Moreover, the
dorsal tegument of the collum, metaterga and epiproct is clothed with a cerotegument crust [details]