Description

Members of this family can be distinguished mainly by the following characters (after Shelley, 1995). Dorsum with a pattern of dark stripes or without pattern, coloration yellow to white; caudal metatergal margins detached from succeeding tergites, elevated or variably upturned; the collum overhanging the epicranium and the uppermost ocelli; telson broad or narrow; penes short and subconical, located caudoventrad on second male coxae; anterior gonopod sternum with strong, apically hirsute lobes; anterior gonopod coxae with or without hirsute anterior lobe.

Common Names

Taxonomic Hierarchy

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Arthropoda

Class: Diplopoda

Order: Polyzoniida

Family: Hirudisomatidae

Species: Hirudisomatidae