Desmonus Explained

Desmonus is a genus of flat-backed millipedes in the family Sphaeriodesmidae. There are about 10 described species in Desmonus.

Species

These 10 species belong to the genus Desmonus:

• Desmonus acclivus (Loomis, 1966)
• Desmonus atophus (Chamberlin & Mulaik, 1941)
• Desmonus austrus Causey, 1958
• Desmonus conjunctus Loomis, 1959
• Desmonus crassus Loomis, 1959
• Desmonus curtus (Loomis, 1943)
• Desmonus distinctus Loomis, 1959
• Desmonus earlei Cook, 1898
• Desmonus inordinatus Causey, 1958
• Desmonus pudicus (Bollman, 1888)

Further reading

• Book: Checklist of the millipeds of North and Middle America. 1999. Hoffman . Richard L.. Virginia Museum of Natural History Special Publications. 8. 9781884549120.
• Millipede (Diplopoda) distributions: A review. 2009. Golovatch. Sergei I.. Kime. R. Desmond. Soil Organisms. 81. 565–597. 2018-05-02. https://web.archive.org/web/20160303230452/http://www.senckenberg.de/files/content/forschung/publikationen/soilorganisms/volume_81_3/24_golovatch.pdf. 2016-03-03. dead.