Genus Doratodesmus Cook in Cook & Collins, 1895 Type species: Doratonotus armatus Pocock, 1894. Proposed to replace the preoccupied Doratonotus Pocock, 1894 (Cook in Cook & Collins 1895) (type locality: Java, Indonesia). = Hoplitesmus Chamberlin, 1945. Type species: Hoplitesmus enoplus Chamberlin, 1945. Synonymized by Jeekel (1955). = Pauroplus Chamberlin, 1945. Type species: Pauroplus analdes Chamberlin, 1945, n. syn. = Eucondylodesmus Miyosi, 1956. Type species: Eucondylodesmus elegans Miyosi, 1956, n. syn. = Scolopopyge Hoffman, 1978. Type species: Scolopopyge pholeter Hoffman, 1978, n. syn. = Selminarchus Hoffman, 1978. Type species: Selminarchus hispidus Hoffman, 1978, n. syn. = Crenatidorsus Zhang in Zhang & Wang, 1993. Type species: Crenatidorsus grandifoliatus Zhang in Zhang & Wang, 1993, n. syn. Diagnosis. Body “doratodesmid”, with or without mid-dorsal projections; conglobation complete. Gonopod coxae usually abundantly setose ventrolaterally; telopodite usually stout and strongly enlarged laterally towards end of femorite, with or without a short solenomere branch thereafter; acropodite variable, from absent to well-developed.

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Published as part of Golovatch, Sergei, Geoffroy, Jean-Jacques, Mauriès, Jean-Paul & VandenSpiegel, Didier, 2009, Review of the millipede family Haplodesmidae Cook, 1895, with descriptions of some new or poorly-known species (Diplopoda, Polydesmida), pp. 1-53 in ZooKeys 7 (7) on page 45, DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.7.117, http://zenodo.org/record/576436