Eudigraphis Silvestri, 1948

Yang, Si-Qi, Bu, Yun, Nunes Godeiro, Nerivania, Gao, Yan & Jin, Ya-Li, 2025, A new species of Eudigraphis (Diplopoda, Polyxenida, Polyxenidae) from East China, with embryonic and post-embryonic development observations, and mitogenomic and genetic divergence analyses, ZooKeys 1247, pp. 63-88 : 63-88

Genus Eudigraphis Silvestri, 1948

Type species.

Eudigraphis japonica Silvestri, 1948 (= Eudigraphis takakuwai ); type locality: Ehime-ken and Kanagawa of Japan.

Diagnosis.

Head with eight ommatidia on each side. Body with ten segments, nine pleural projections, a telson, and 13 pairs of legs. Antenna with eight articles, the sixth antennal article has three long bacilliform sensilla, some species also have one conical sensillum and one setiform sensillum; the seventh antennal article has two long bacilliform sensilla, some species also have one conical sensillum and one setiform sensillum; eighth antennal articles is shorter than article VII, with four finger-shaped sensory cones. Tergites with two lateral clusters of trichomes plus a single continuous row of trichomes close to posterior edge. Caudal trichomes on telson arranged as a penicil of hooked and barbate trichomes. The mandible has a comb-lobe, an intermediate plate, and a proximal plate, without a molar tuft.

Distribution.

China (Jiangsu, Shanghai, Taiwan, Yunnan, Zhejiang), Japan.