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 ‘very wide and flat ridges’; they are symmetrical with respect to the frontal plane; and with the caudal processes poorly developed and pointing sideways; the furcae have the postero-lateral processes spoon-like and tapering at their apices. Other characters: the bucco-pharyngeal tube is very wide and it lacks the ‘drop-like’ thickening; the pharyngeal tube is as long as the bulb and as long as the buccal tube or slightly shorter; the stylet supports are inserted at the very end of the buccal tube; the pharyngeal bulb is very lengthened and so are the placoids; the pharyngeal apophyses are absent.”
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.
