Nyssodesmus

{{Short description|Genus of millipedes}}

{{Taxobox

| image=Nyssodesmus python.jpg

| image_caption=Nyssodesmus python

| regnum = Animalia

| phylum = Arthropoda

| subphylum = Myriapoda

| classis = Diplopoda

| ordo = Polydesmida

| familia=Platyrhacidae

| genus=Nyssodesmus

| genus_authority=Cook, 1896

}}

Nyssodesmus is a genus of flat-backed millipedes in the family Platyrhacidae. About a dozen species have been described, all native to Central America, occurring from Nicaragua to Panama.{{cite journal|last=Hoffman |first=R. L. |title=Checklist of the millipeds of North and Middle America |journal=Virginia Museum of Natural History Special Publications |year=1999 |volume=8 |pages=1–553}} pp. 378-379