Eurhinocricus Brölemann, 1903

Golovatch, S. I., Mauriès, J. P. & Akkari, N., 2021, On the collections of Indo-Australian Spirobolida (Diplopoda) kept in the Zoological Museum of the Moscow State University, Russia. 3. Some Rhinocricidae, Arthropoda Selecta 30 (1), pp. 3-27 : 17

Genus Eurhinocricus Brölemann, 1903

Type species: E. biolleyi Brölemann, 1903 , by monotypy.

COMMENT. This rather large genus of Rhinocricidae presently comprises 34 species or subspecies which are mostly endemic to South and Central America, ranging from Brazil and Bolivia in the south to northern Mexico in the north (also introduced to the southern U.S.A.) [ Jeekel, 2001; Marek et al., 2003; https://bugguide.net/node/view/103681]. Only two species are remarkable exceptions, one from the Caroline Islands and the other from the Marianas, both in Micronesia [ Jeekel, 2001]. Following both Attems [1914] and Hoffman [1955], this tetraconocerate genus is distinguished through the structure of the posterior gonopod, in which the solenomere is a shorter mesal branch, while the main, outer branch is flattened, blade-shaped and apically usually subtruncate, not truly flagelliform. As noted above, some Eurhinocricus species from the Antilles also fit in the diagnoses of Australocricus and Propodobolus (cf. Bond, Sierwald [2002]).