Jeekelomorpha, Gordana & Ambros, 2018

Golovatch, S. I. & Semenyuk, I. I., 2018, On several new or poorly-known Oriental Paradoxosomatidae (Diplopoda: Polydesmida), Arthropoda Selecta 27 (1), pp. 1-21 : 8

Jeekelomorpha gen.n.

DIAGNOSIS. An aberrant genus of medium-sized Sulciferini Attems, 1898 with small paraterga, in which the gonopodal telopodite is suberect, the femorite untwisted, excavate and bearing two ridges mesally, a short postfemoral region demarcated by sulci only laterally, and the usual two lamellae of a membranous, somewhat fan-shaped solenophore are upright and independent (vs. distinctly curved or coiled and intricately interlocked), with a few processes or outgrowths at the base, and a long and flagelliform solenomere running entirely on the mesal face between the lamellae to end up laterally on their top.

Type species: Jeekelomorpha bispinosa sp.n.

REMARKS. This new genus is gladly dedicated to the memory of the late Casimir Albrecht Willem Jeekel, an outstanding specialist in the taxonomy of Diplopoda.

The upright membranous and somewhat fan-shaped solenophore with a few distinct parabasal outgrowths, coupled with a double-ridged, but untwisted femorite and a flagelliform suberect solenomere seem to be apomorphic to and highly characteristic of this new genus. Feminine in gender.