Genus description from Pilato 1987: “The bucco-pharyngeal apparatus is of the Diphascon model with the apophyses for the insertion of the muscles of the stylets in the shape of a ‘blunt hook’; the dorsal hook is different in shape and size from the ventral one with consequent asymmetry with respect to the frontal plane; the caudal processes of the apophyses for the insertion of the muscles of the stylets are pointing backwards and sideways; the furcae have the postero-lateral processes thickened at their apices.
Other characters: The bucco-pharyngeal tube is narrow; the pharyngeal tube is very short, almost half as long as the pharyngeal bulb and clearly shorter than the buccal tube; the ‘drop-like’ thickening is absent; the stylet supports are inserted just after 2/3 of the buccal tube length; the pharyngeal apophyses are well developed; the pharyngeal bulb is rounded with short placoids.”
Citations:
Pilato G. 1987. Revision of the genus Diphascon Plate, 1889, with remarks on the subfamily Itaquasconinae (Eutardigrada, Hypsibiidae). pp. 337-357 in Bertolani R (ed). Biology of Tardigrades: Selected symposia and monographs.
