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Genus DESMONIELLA Loomis 



Desmoniella Loomis, 1943, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 92, No. 7, p. 400. 

 Generotype : Desmoniella carta Loomis, by original designation. 

 Range: Oklahoma. 

 Species: One. 



Desmoniella curta Loomis 



Desmoniella curta Loomis, 1943, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 92, No. 7, 



p. 401, figs. 14a-c. 

 Type: Mus. Comp. Zool. 



Type Locality: Arbuckle Mountains, 2.3 miles south of Fittstown, Ponto- 

 toc County, Oklahoma. 



Range : Known only from type locality. 



Genus DESMONUS Cook 



Desmonus Cook, 1898, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 21, p. 463. 

 Generotype: Desmonus earlei Cook, by original designation. 

 Range : Alabama to Kentucky, west to Arkansas. 

 Species: Two. 



Desmonus earlei Cook 



Desmonus earlei Cook, 1898, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 21, p. 463, pi. 32, 



figs. la-n. 

 Type: U. S. Nat. Mus. (No. 681). 

 Type Locality: Auburn, Lee County, Alabama. 



Range: Known so far from the type locality, from several localities in 

 eastern Tennessee, and from central Kentucky. 



Desmonus pudicus (BoUman) 



Sphaeriodesmus pudicus Bellman, 1888, Ent. Amer., vol. 4, p. 3. 

 Desmonus pudicus Cook, 1898, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., vol. 21, p. 465, pL 



32, figs. 2a-b. 

 Type: U. S. Nat. Mus. (No. 154). 

 Type Locality : Little Rock, Pulaski County, Arkansas. 

 Range: Known only from Little Rock and Okolona, Arkansas. 



Family EURYDESMIDAE Chamberlin 



Chelodesmidae + Xystodesmidae Cook, 1895, Ann. New York Acad. Sci., 



vol. 9, pp. 4, 5. 

 Leptodesminae Attems, 1899, Denkschr. Akad. Wiss., Wien, vol. 67, p. 369. 

 Leptodesmidae Attems, 1914, Arch. Naturg., Abt. A, vol. 80, p. 280; 1938, 



Das Tierreich, Lief. 69, p. 1. 

 Eurydesmidae Chamberlin, 1950, Zoologica, New York, vol. 35, p. 142. 

 Sigmocheiridae Causey, 1955, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 68, p. 93 



(in part, Sigmocheir and Orophe only) . 



